Jul
I just made a new gaming forum, the forum is one day open and I’ve 30 members, tho I have the ability to obtain more, anyway I'm using free services atm, but I'm up to buy a domain name , i'm using forumotion.. and I want to ask you? Is it good to buy a domain and use the free forum ? or it's superior to make a new forum all way alone?!
Now something else, do you’ve any idea, how I could promote my site superior? To get more members? What I have to do to reach one great amount of members?
P.S. Here's my forum. http://gamers.one-forum.net/index.htm
Thanks in advance!
Answer:
As you keep your current forum, create a new forumat your own domain. This way you can draw many visitors' trust and increase your members. Moreover, you can put your own advertisements on its pages (such as adsence) and make money from your forum. After a while, you can compare the function of your two forum with each other: free and paid forums. Then you can comprehend which of them are more successful.
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Good Luck!
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