Why put a forum on your site ?

**monaghan** · 29-10-2005, 10:32

The site in question is a community site, the obvious benefit is community discussion, what other benefits are there ?

The things that jump to mind are

Food for Search Engine spiders
Advertising space
Membership list for SPAM (Oops targeted subscriber offers )

Any others ?

**Wistow** · 29-10-2005, 12:04

Support medium where customers can get answers

Craig

rustypaulin · 29-10-2005, 12:11

it will get your site a lot of repeat visitors from people who read or post at the forums as forums are more frequently updated than sites

alphonse · 30-10-2005, 07:24

Area where you can know who are active members for a service.

Neil · 08-11-2005, 18:55

A forum is a place where users can interact.

**monaghan** · 08-11-2005, 19:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil

A forum is a place where users can interact.

Thanks for that, being a mod on several forums though, I guess I'd worked that one out

benf · 04-12-2005, 16:23

I suspect the whole idea of a community is to learn new things as well. What is the main subject of the community, because these questions you are asking may differ from tpye to type?

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