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What Do I Need To Make A Forum Website

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Me and my friends have a plan to make a forum that concern about studying abroad. I found a good article about how to make a forum. Here we go.

What kind of forum software i should use?
There are many free forum softwares out there such as phpbb, but i dont recommend them or use them. These free forums are good for starting out but they dont have the modifications, mods, skins, etc that will support you in the long run. I recommend IPB or VB as your forum software, because first of all they are great softwares, with great amount of support, they have great amount of mods, skins, etc.

What kind of niche you should start on?
Read this carefully - Pick a niche that you have interest in. If you do not have an interest in the forum and niche YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE AN ESTABLISHED FORUM. Forums require alot of time and if you dont have interest than you will not be feeling the enthusiasm in working with it. Your niche can be anything, webmaster, music, movies, etc, do not look at the competition, just start your own forum and eventually through your hard work it will be made successful.

How should i make money?
Earning from forums is difficult. You are not likely to earn alot from forums as you are from a normal website. You can earn by selling banners on your forum. I sold about 5 banners on my forum for $60/month each, which is a good amount per month to be earning on forum. But my price is $60/month because my site currently gets 4000 uniques per day, and i have a database of 30,000+ users in the forum. So you can imagine that how active the forum will be. The more active it is, the more you charge for the banners and links.

There are other ways in advertising on forums aswell:

• Text Links
• Announcements in forum
• Sticky Topic
• Reply under each thread
• Banners
• Paid membership
• Adsense
• Contests

How to get members?
This is the hardest part. If i, come to your new empty forum, i am not going to stick around. I will probably leave and join some other forum that is samelike yours but the activity is higher. So what you have to do to attract users to stay in your forum.

Do the following to keep your forum active:

• Revenue sharing
• Contests
• Paying your members somehow
• Paying posts/threads
• Pay people to make posts, etc

Conclusion:
So, get a good forum software such as IPB or VB. Make a forum that you have interest in, so you are likely to work on it longer and harder. Start some contests and revenue sharing so members stick around and not leave the forum. Earn by selling banners, links, etc.

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