How to Boost the Popularity of Your Forum Through Other Forums

A great way to get your name out in the world of forums is to post on other forums. Seeing as you're a forum owner, you must have posted on other forums at some point in time. One key to success on gaining a good name on other forums is to have a presence when you post. You need to post with strength, humor, and knowledge, people recognize these traits and will admire you for it.

If you're running a forum for webmasters, its a great idea to become active on the big webmaster forums, in order to draw in members. I recommend Digital Point, Webmaster-Talk, Site Point, The Admin Zone, and vBulletin.org as good hangouts for webmasters. If you can keep active on some of those sites and gain a reputation for great knowledge and posting, people will recognize you. Help people who are having issues and offer resources to help new webmasters. This same concept can be true for technology forums, gaming forums, and even just social forums, simply make a name for yourself and people will follow you.

If you gain enough influence on the board you are posting on, they may give you a staff position such as moderator. This can get you even more popularity and maybe even link deals with the administrators. If you get on the good side of the administrators, the possibilities are endless. However, don't get greedy, realize they are doing you favors, not the other way around. Once you are known on the forum by practically everybody, I'm sure you'll be contacted or will need to contact someone using an instant messenger. I highly recommend you have AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Skype accounts, so that anyone who wants to contact you can get a hold of you.

People you influence on forums will often be very willing to help you out, perhaps you need more active members on your forum. Ask fellow staff members and regulars on forums you post at if they would like to join your community. If you've made a name for yourself as a good member and contributer, people will be more than willing to support you.

Last Word
Find forums that are active, not necessarily the ones with the most traffic or members. Your stats don't matter unless you have members that are there and post excessively. Always keep a link in your signature to your site , but don't advertise it in your posts, stay smart and funny with your posts, diversify yourself from the norm. Good luck foruming :)