by Shotgun » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:27 pm
Reason # 1 - Forums are a great place for traffic, and automated traffic. Whenever your forum members create a thread, it takes that into account into SEO. The bigger your forum, the more traffic you will receive and the more exposure within the search engines you will get!
Reason # 2 - Forums bring alot of good quality content. Whether it's an internet marketing forum, or a weight loss forum, you will always find good content within these forums. It's to help bring out the general message and expound on it.
Reason # 3 - Forums can be either private, or public. The good thing about paid forums are that you can share information and it won't get too saturated. The bad thing about forums being public, is that no one really would know about what you have to share, but the ones who do will really benefit from it.
Reason # 4 - Your readers will know you well, and respect your forum and yourself. Being an administrator on a couple of forums, I know how your members will react when you speak about a certain subject.
Reason # 5 - Forums bring in alot of demand. There are alot of forums out there that don't have much content, but the ones that do will bring in alot of demand from your members.
The only downside with creating a forum, is the hard work and labor that you will need to put into creating a successful forum. You will need to work your butt off to really make your forum take off. It's all in the mindset of how you promote your forum that will make or break your success.