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Few or many subforums?

SLTE916

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I'm considering starting up a forum for my site and plastering it with ads, but I've hit a snag. I've been on tons of forums over the years, and they're generally split into two camps: forums with relatively few subforums (YpayZ is a fairly good example - I count thirteen) and forums with dozens of subforums. I can see the appeal of having as many potential pages as possible, but unless you have hundreds of regular users a lot of the subforums on the more populated message boards wind up empty, which looks bad.

Forum owners, I ask you, which generally winds up being more profitable? A forum with a select number of subforums, or a forum with tons of subforums?
 
I started two forums long back, one is on my Country, and the other was for products selling. Both were failed due to lack of members and products in the second forum. Maintaining a forum is the hardest thing than a blog as you have to be active for supporting members.

I would suggest you to start with small forums like 5 to 10 forums without any sub forums, once it started to grow, make it into sub forums if required. The only thing is you need bunch of funds to put into the developing, forum posters, moderators, promoting.

You will get good results if you kept on developing as I seen on my forums, but due to some problems I kept them aside long back.

Can you tell me what will be the niche of your forums?
 
I also have a forum, however, I have not promoted it yet. Actually, there are no contents and members in my forum. Having said that I have been actively participating on many forums. I think having many subforums is a good idea because you can incorporate people with different interest and knowledge.
 
Starting a new forum these days is not like used to be back in the days when you "build it and they will come". I would recommend choosing a niche and create max 10 forums for it, don't create 15-20 or more forums because it looks awful an empty forum, you'll expand later when the community really need it. Also I would recommend a paid script, Xenforo is very good, probably best we use it too and you also need a premium skin or theme to look professional.

I wanted YpayZ.com forum to have max 10 forums too but with that I covered the internet marketing and webmaster niche and build up 3 more for us, for the comunity management, the general chat, and I also wanted a contest section because I plan many contests to grow the comunity a lil' bit faster.

You need a lot of passion, forums grow very hard, you also need money for forum posters till you grow big enough and money for running contests if you're like me ;) You ain't gonna see any earnings in the first year for sure, and is possible to not see them at all if community is not big enough.
 
While I've never owned a forum myself, I have been an active contributor on a lot of them over the year's, and been a moderator on a number also.

For me, nothing looks worse than a forum with a lot of boards that are empty, and when a user first subscribes, the last thing they want to be confronted with is 20+ subforums with nothing in them. Starting small works best, and build up from there as and when you get the required amount of members.

Also as a site owner, interact with your members. Ask them what they want to see, engage with them and take their ideas on-board. I've been on a lot of forums and the owner tends to be this enigma that we as members hardly ever get to speak to, and we are always directed to the mods and the admins. While those groups obviously have their place, sometimes members want to speak to the person behind the actual site, or at least know that they are there, so make yourself available.
 
Fewer sub-forums are always better. I've been on some forums which have over 50 sub-forums. Having that many sub-forums makes it very hard for a forum user to find something they are looking for and would for that reason not stick around for long. One shouldn't be using the search box all the time to find content on a forum.

A forum should be easy to navigate and the fewer the forums the easier the navigation.

I think many of those forum owners who create too many sub-forums hope to entice more people to join the forums because they'll probably find something they are looking for. It however is a strategy that hardly ever works.
 
I started two forums long back, one is on my Country, and the other was for products selling. Both were failed due to lack of members and products in the second forum. Maintaining a forum is the hardest thing than a blog as you have to be active for supporting members.

I would suggest you to start with small forums like 5 to 10 forums without any sub forums, once it started to grow, make it into sub forums if required. The only thing is you need bunch of funds to put into the developing, forum posters, moderators, promoting.

You will get good results if you kept on developing as I seen on my forums, but due to some problems I kept them aside long back.

Can you tell me what will be the niche of your forums?
Likely gaming. There are a ton of gaming forums already, I know, but I have a fairly populated website that gets between ten to fifteen comments a day already anyway, and plenty of hits. Just not sure if the promise of some money is worth the hassle of having to adjudicate a forum. If I did make one, though, I'd probably keep the number of subforums fairly low, in the ten to fifteen range.
 
Likely gaming. There are a ton of gaming forums already, I know, but I have a fairly populated website that gets between ten to fifteen comments a day already anyway, and plenty of hits. Just not sure if the promise of some money is worth the hassle of having to adjudicate a forum. If I did make one, though, I'd probably keep the number of subforums fairly low, in the ten to fifteen range.
If you are getting comments on your blog, then start a forum, integrate the forum to your blog, presently the best software are Wordpress and Xeneforo.
Making money using Adsense on forums is hard as we aren't able to monetize properly. Gaming niche has several ways of making money, you can sell games, tricks, etc. I am not a fan of gaming and never used to join gaming forums.
The best part is keep an eye on other gaming forum, how they are making money and do it in same manner. It's not hard for developing niche forums until you invest some time and money.

You will get bored in the beginning, but when it grows you will be laughing, don't get lost in the middle, keep on promoting it until it hits in thousands of views per day.
 
Likely gaming. There are a ton of gaming forums already, I know, but I have a fairly populated website that gets between ten to fifteen comments a day already anyway, and plenty of hits. Just not sure if the promise of some money is worth the hassle of having to adjudicate a forum. If I did make one, though, I'd probably keep the number of subforums fairly low, in the ten to fifteen range.

If your website is about gaming as a whole and not some particular series or games, then I suggest creating just a few main subforums, based on consoles, for example (as in PC/Playstation/Xbox/Nintendo), with sub-categories inside them (genres, publishers, your choice, really). Having too many subforums on the main page is confusing.
 
It does depend on the forum owner and his own preference on how many subforums he would like. Personally, I feel that having to many makes the forum look messy and untidy. That's my own opinion though!
 
As a member of several forums, I also dislike empty subforums. The only exception are areas for announcements.

@SLTE916: Do you already have an idea about the main topic for you forum ?
 

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