Do you moderate comments very often on your blog?
When you start a blog, you will usually have no readers. So how do you get those initial readers coming in to read your first posts? What traffic building tips can you give for a very new blog?
At what point would you lock a thread? For instance, do you lock a thread after a certain number of responses or leave it open infinitely?
Can you actually rank on Google without bothering to fill in any meta tag/meta keyword/description information? Is this information essential SEO or can you use other details on page to tell Google what your site is abo...
How can you go about changing your forum name? Do you change the domain name or keep it the same?
If you saw a hosting company online that promised free or very cheap life time hosting with unlimited bandwidth, would you think it was a scam?
The most effective ads use emotional appeal to evoke a response in viewers. So how do you use emotion in your advertising to make people want to respond?
What's the best places to advertise a business or money making opportunity online or offline ?
Are there any ways to advertise an affiliate product offline?
What's the best way to advertise online or offline to get valid leads (so you can mail info or to secure appointments) to get people interested in the insurance products you are selling?
For instance, let's say you own a local clothing shop and target the community for sales, but want to sell your clothes nationally to others who would order online. How could you go about targeting a national audience w...
Let's say you go back to the sites where you have posted backlinks (maybe a week or month later) and find they have been taken down. But this has happened to most if not all of the most recent backlinks, what would you ...
Do you only use backlinking for SEO or to get real human visitors (not just ranking)?
Is it necessary to have a general chat or off topic subforum on every forum? Most forums that I've posted on have an off topic section and this lets the members have a place to relax and talk about other things. What a...
How many subforums are needed for a forum? For instance, how many would you have on a general chat forum? What about an SEO forum? What names do you give to your subforums?
If a problem member asks for a second chance on your forum and promises to behave, should you give them a second chance? Or, are you asking for trouble?
For instance, have you ever been away from your forum on sick leave or vacation for an extended time? And, if so, who did you leave in charge of your forum to ensure that it kept running?
The idea of building a forum is to have a place for like minded people to meet and talk. And, hopefully the community that you've built would stay together after you sell your forum. But what happens if many long time ...
For instance, would you consider a one word post to be a spam? Or, do you only see blatant advertising as spam?
What's the best way to announce change of ownership with a forum? Also, how do you prepare forum members for the new management (which might include different admins/mods too or other changes on site)?
For instance, let's say you want to install a blog on your home page (of your forum). How do you go about such a big change? For instance, do you shut your forum down for a day or try to get the work done at night? Als...
Do you spend at least an hour on your forum daily, either on the threads reading/responding or behind the scenes tweaking the software, etc? Or, do you take a more laid back hands off approach to forum management?
What type of incentives or prizes do you offer admins or mods to reward them for good work done on your forum?
Does your forum host have daily down time, meaning your forum server is not up and can't be accessed by forum members/guests? If so, does this affect the number of posts you have on forum daily or do forum members just ...
Does your staff (admins/mods) ever argue on forum or behind the scenes? What are some of the reasons for staff disagreements or strife? How do you deal with those situations? For instance, do you always favor your admi...
Do you have any free/paid resources that help you do a better job of forum administration? Which blogs/sites do you refer to when you have a problem?
Did you consult with friends and family or other forum owners before opening your current forum? Did you take their advice?
What would you do differently? Would you make the same decisions? Do you think a fresh start would lead to a better result? Or, are you happy with the current state of your forum?
Are there any warning signs that a forum might be sliding in popularity or have an underlying problem such as spammers or trolls?
What's the most number of users you have ever had on with your current/past forum? (Not referring to unregistered guests). How many average users are on the forum posting/responding or just browsing threads at any one ...
What features do you think are missing from your current forum software? If you could design your own perfect forum software, what features/benefits would be included?
Do you have a specific date or time at which you think you will sell your forum? For instance, maybe you plan to open a forum and then after a year sell it for profit. Please discuss when/why you would shut down or sel...
And, if so, what was the cause and resolution? Was the legal action started by a forum member or related to the technical admin side of forum management (such as forum license, etc)?
What type of contests will stimulate the most amount of new discussions. What contests have you used and prizes offered?
Sometime back, I noticed an intense amount of bandwidth for one particular site and found out that one of my images was being hotlinked to. I changed the image name so it could not be hotlinked to anymore. And, enabled...
Is there a way to make Google video search redirect to your page, instead of Youtube?
One of my forum members complained that she can't access my forum sometimes. I haven't noticed any down time around the time mentioned. But she says she has dynamic IP from her internet service provider. Just wonderin...
Please share a current host coupon for your host coupon
I think my forum was DDOS at some point in the past as it was impossible to access and the site was down. It hasn't happened recently though. Has your forum ever suffered a DDOS attack?
Does your host company provide FTP or do you have to use one of your own to connect to your host space?
