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How to create a forum with forumotion?

In this tutorial you will find a fast, free and effective way to create your own forum without having to pay expensive accommodation. For that I recommend you forumotion. Five reasons to choose forumotion:

  • You don’t have a limited database: unlimited users and unlimited messages on your forum.
  • Forumotion allows you to host images.
  • With hitskin, you can have more than 7,000 free skins for you forum.
  • You can choose between phpbb, punbb and invision forums and change them at any moment.
  • You can customize and add widgets to your forum.

Create a forum — tutorial

Registration

Go to the registration page: create a forum.
 First of all, choose your forum editor, I recommend you Phpbb 2 or 3. Select your design, if you want to have more design for your forum, you a can go to hitskin. After that, enter information about your future forum (you can see bellow a screenshot of an example of registration).

Example of registration

Personalization

We’ll start by learning how to customize the part that includes the logo, site name and description of the site.

Change / Remove logo and background

To change the logo, it’s easy! After hosting your new logo to a web image of your choice, go to your Admin Panel (you can find a link of your admin panel on the bottom of the page)> Display> Image Management>Advanced mode, you change the URL against “logo forum”. On the same page you will find a form which allows you to change the background image of your forum. You must to upload your image/wallpaper.

How to have visitors on my forum?

Try to be active on your own forum and other forums from the community by commenting and leaving your links to targeted topics. Caution, do not spam because it is not good for your brand. You must to improve your Search Engine Optimization or Seo, if you want to learn more about the subject, you can read: what is SEO? and how to get backlinks?.

Create posts on popular topics

Nobody search : “how to eat a potato?” on a search engine (such as google and bing). After optimizing your website for search engine, you must create popular topics on your forum. Also check that competition in the key word is weak to inscrease your chances … Try to create current topics to animate the community.

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