Hi all.
As you may have noticed in my signature, we´ve already created a Facebook Page, and a Twitter Account for the Forum. The main purpose of those are to keep everyone up to date with important info about the forum, i.e. "Forum is down, but will be back in 30 minutes", but they´re also serving another agenda: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), both Facebook and Twitter is great for improving rankings in the search engines (read Google).
We´re considering to also create a Blog (off site). The idea is to be blogging about some of the "hot" topics on this forum, and maybe even ask some of the frequent posters here, to help updating and maintaining the blog.
Blogs are more accessible, less threatening, and require a much lower level of commitment from the average reader. Done right, a blog can be a more gentle way to ease new people into our community.
The blog would also serve as a great opportunity to deliver important messages about the forum, if our members would subscribe to the Blog RSS feeds.
Also, blogs are more “linkable” which allows us to gain even more exposure within our niche, as well as helping our forum rank better in the search engines. This of course will in turn lead to more visitors and hopefully more members.
Any thoughts on this ? And maybe even some volunteers to help Blogging ? :beer:
As you may have noticed in my signature, we´ve already created a Facebook Page, and a Twitter Account for the Forum. The main purpose of those are to keep everyone up to date with important info about the forum, i.e. "Forum is down, but will be back in 30 minutes", but they´re also serving another agenda: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), both Facebook and Twitter is great for improving rankings in the search engines (read Google).
We´re considering to also create a Blog (off site). The idea is to be blogging about some of the "hot" topics on this forum, and maybe even ask some of the frequent posters here, to help updating and maintaining the blog.
Blogs are more accessible, less threatening, and require a much lower level of commitment from the average reader. Done right, a blog can be a more gentle way to ease new people into our community.
The blog would also serve as a great opportunity to deliver important messages about the forum, if our members would subscribe to the Blog RSS feeds.
Also, blogs are more “linkable” which allows us to gain even more exposure within our niche, as well as helping our forum rank better in the search engines. This of course will in turn lead to more visitors and hopefully more members.
Any thoughts on this ? And maybe even some volunteers to help Blogging ? :beer:
We´ll do that for sure.
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