Webmasters: 11 Ways To Increase Forums Activites

11 Ways To Increase Forums Activites

Written by Pinyo Bhulipongsanon

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Barter

Even if they don't have a forum, offer to write about their web site or add a link to their site in exchange for some posts.

Recruit moderators

As your member population grows, find a few good posters (the ones that post high-quality messages and replies) and ask them if they want to help you moderate repparttar

forum. Give them more rights than other users so that they can edit and/or delete other people posts at their descretion. They will help you keep repparttar 136026

forum in order, make sure all repparttar 136027

rules are followed and help you answers questions. Many people are happy to take on this challenge.

Do email follow up with your members

Send email to members that registered, but have not returned in a long time. Tell them what has change since their last visit and why it may be worthwhile for them to return to your site. Try to do this about once every quarter, but do not do this more than once a month. Be sure to respect their rights by including appropriate unsubscribe information and take their name off repparttar 136028

mailing list at their request.

Offer incentives

Some forums like this one offers incentives for forum members to make posts. For instance, I offer free text-link advertisement in exchange for posts.

Hire a Professional

This would be my last option, but it may work for you. There are professional message posters out there that will participate in your forums by starting threads and posting replies. This is a good solution if you are really stuck and need someone else to help you get repparttar 136029

forums going.

Some other things to keep in mind is that you should start your forums small with perhaps 3-4 categories, then slowly expand and create more categories. This way, repparttar 136030 forums does not look so empty. Additionally, some forums software has polling features. Use these to your advantage. Controversial polls and topics can create flurries of activity.

As a final note, please tell me what you think about this article in our webmaster forums (did you get repparttar 136031 idea?).

Pinyo Bhulipongsanon is the owner of GreatNexus.com Webmaster Resources offering visitors with features such as webmaster forums, webmaster directory, webmaster dictionary, programming scripts, and webmaster articles.

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A Painless Plagiarism Solution

Written by David Walker

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Inform repparttar webmaster your material should be removed from their website within a certain time frame, I chose 48 hours, or you will take repparttar 135855 following action:

1. Contact their web hosting company and inform them of repparttar 135856 webmaster’s abuse. A WHOIS search (e.g. http://www.whois.sc) can reveal plenty of information about a particular website, including hosting information and also contact details of repparttar 135857 individual or company that registered repparttar 135858 website.

A personal introduction, for example, ‘Dear Mr Smith’, is very effective when making repparttar 135859 first contact to combat plagiarism, especially if this information is not readily available on repparttar 135860 ‘Contact’ section of repparttar 135861 offending website!

2. In case repparttar 135862 offending webmaster does not take repparttar 135863 prospect of repparttar 135864 above action seriously then you should also clearly state you intend to file a notice of Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) infringement with search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

This action can potentially ruin a web business as repparttar 135865 search engines take a dim view of plagiarism and can remove an offending site from their search results should an infringement claim be justified.

You can also point out that you can prove your website is repparttar 135866 originator of repparttar 135867 copy by using repparttar 135868 Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/).

These simple procedures should be enough to persuade an offending webmaster to remove your material without repparttar 135869 need for legal action which can be a long, drawn out and expensive process.

David Walker is the Managing Director of Magic Hat Ltd (http://www.magichatltd.co.uk), a company which provides webmasters with a range of brand new sports, gambling and entertainment affiliate programmes to promote.

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