"Too many webmaster forums"

[Thomasss 210]

I was browsing around and found this topic going off on the fact that there are too many webmaster forums. Ironic coming from the owner of a webmaster forum, however, what do you think about this? How many webmaster forums have you joined over the years and are they still around?

[s3_gunzel 295]

Why am I not surprised it’s an FP thread?

 

The guy’s a sore loser and pissy that his board was not successful. Typical for FP.

[PoliceChief 31]

Why am I not surprised it’s an FP thread?

 

The guy’s a sore loser and pissy that his board was not successful. Typical for FP.

 

Typical promotion forum response - a forum fails and it's everyone on the promotion forums fault and then all of a sudden, all forums in the other niche are the bad guys. Hah.

[Joshua Farrell 22]

It is true that there are plenty of people that have no long term strategy when opening forums, so closures tend to happen sooner than they should. I have seen some forum administrators even be flaky with what software they wanted to use (and thus would switch between them all the time), which in itself is a great way to kill a forum that has potential.

[Smokey 10]

The way I see it, you can't have too many places to promote your site or product. The more places it can be found/seen, the better. "Too many webmaster forums" seems like a very "I'm a sore loser" type of response.

[jyy 1]

It's never about having too much of something, but rather, "Who is on top?". I mean, people will flock to whatever is on top - assuming it's the best.

 

O.K., in that case, webmaster forums have to focus on being as popular as possible - using paid promotion. However, though, it's not going to be cheap, though!

 

The way I see it, you can't have too many places to promote your site or product. The more places it can be found/seen, the better. "Too many webmaster forums" seems like a very "I'm a sore loser" type of response.

 

Some places on the net - aren't worth the time, though. I mean, they used to have - and probably still have - these programs where you can blast your site to a million other sites, but it's all junk!

[marketstreetforum 18]

I believe the age of communities is going to come back, if not already trending this way.

 

Let's look at what a forum is:

 

a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. (Searched On Google :))

 

I would disagree there is "Too Many"

One cannot have too many places to connect with potential customers/clients/friends/acquaintances etc.

 

 

Nobody will join everywhere, and everywhere will not be known by everyone, so the more places you can connect with someone, the wider your reach becomes.

[Alexander 16]

Yes, there is too many forums in this niche. Unless you have something unique to offer over the hundreds of webmaster discussion boards that already exist, your community will have no chance of survival. Once a site owner has this, they could start to look into Free and Paid Marketing strategies that can potential kick-start their forum. It's all about filling the gap.

[Fergal 5]

The guy’s a sore loser

That's not very nice, who are you referring to, the thread starter on FP or someone else?

[s3_gunzel 295]

That's not very nice, who are you referring to, the thread starter on FP or someone else?

 

The person who started the thread on FP. It's an accurate representation of what was said in the thread. You know the type of person -- Starts a clone of FP site, doesn't become successful, has a cry about it. Attention seeking, I believe is the term.

[Katos 70]

Typical promotion forum response - a forum fails and it's everyone on the promotion forums fault and then all of a sudden, all forums in the other niche are the bad guys. Hah.

 

This guy gets it.

 

On a real, there are too many webmaster forums, but the ones that do it right are clear winners :D

[Azareal 11]

A lot of people don't understand what an admin forum entails.

 

An admin forum is a subset of the webmaster genre and it is a small niche by it's very nature which limits how many people you're going to be able to draw in.

 

Handling them effectively requires a lot of specialised knowledge and experience.

 

Growing an admin forum takes a lot of time and patience.

 

You're never going to get the supremely massive board of your dreams.

 

You're going to get many kinds of people, including ones you don't like.

 

Paying people to post on the site is pointless. Many paid posts are on subjects which have been done to death. A lot of their knowledge like that on SEO aren't even up-to-date with modern day tricks like Microdata and rel=ugc

[s3_gunzel 295]

You're never going to get the supremely massive board of your dreams.

 

Here, and I think I speak for both [uSER=1]@Thomasss[/uSER] and @Katos here, we don’t want a massive board, we want an active board.

 

I think there’s a happy medium between an echo chamber and a big board.

[DudeThatsErin 5]

I believe there is. Forums, in general, are very vast and there are a lot of them. Yet, I don't see people visiting them as much. I mean I didn't visit them for the last year until recently.

[Thomasss 210]

Here, and I think I speak for both [uSER=1]@Thomasss[/uSER] and @Katos here, we don’t want a massive board, we want an active board.

 

I think there’s a happy medium between an echo chamber and a big board.

 

Agreed. I’m not one to want a huge community, just one that is active and here for all forumers to collaborate and discuss.

[Katos 70]

Agreed. I’m not one to want a huge community, just one that is active and here for all forumers to collaborate and discuss.

 

Fully agree with this and @s3_gunzel

[Puppuccino 50]

Sometimes forums just don't work out. I've had many a forum that have risen and fallen and it's not an easy task to keep one going. Although if you start to get upset it didn't take off you need to stop and think about why you started one.

[Ash 7]

There used to be quite a lot of webmaster forums popping up but honestly, most end up closing after a few months. I honestly can't think of any large promotion forums right now (excluding webmaster ones). The only big ones I've been a member of are FP and Forum Hour

[Puppuccino 50]

There used to be quite a lot of webmaster forums popping up but honestly, most end up closing after a few months. I honestly can't think of any large promotion forums right now (excluding webmaster ones). The only big ones I've been a member of are FP and Forum Hour

 

Back in FP's prime, there were quite a few decent promotion forums where they have active bases but that tended to mean it was the same people circling around forums and not bringing in any new activity. I recall that being roughly 2009 to 2011 I think.