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Hot Topic! How to create your own thriving online community for free
As a website owner you already know that having a community forum will boost traffic ten fold, however the biggest problem today is building a community, nobody is going to return to your forum if it only has 10 posts. So how do theese sites get popular forums? The first is by being a popular site, but if your not a popular site then traditionally your pretty much stuffed, until now....
Read on: we will teach you the 4 stage process of using our shared forum to build traffic to your site, and then ultimately how to copy the forum and its posts and use your own forum on your server.
We have thought of a solution that's free and works. Read through this whole page as it's quite unique.
Stage 1: Joining your site to the existing community
The first stage is adding a link to our forum on your website, this gives your users access to our unbranded community, unbranded meaning it contains no reference to LeeRees.com so it will look like it's yours.
Stage 2: Building your own traffic
When one of your visitors comes to your site and visits the forum they will see a thriving community and will continue to acces the forum by visiting your website.
Stage 3: Setting up your own forum and importing all the existing posts from the shared forum.
The shared forum is based on YaBB. YaBB is easy to setup and works on most web hosts. Once you feel your website is getting enough returning visitors to the community we will send you the entire user datafiles and post database so you can import it into your own completely seperate forum and make the switch. Your users would never know the difference as they are still typing your web address to get to what is now your own forum.
Stage 4: It's yours now
You are now at stage 4, what you now have is a copy of the community forum running on your web space aswell as a steady flow of users from your own site. As you have already built up traffic your forum will continue to thrive. Now you can brand your forum with your own website logo's etc.
The community forum was opened on 1st May 2004 To see the community forum click here
If you would like to join this program please email lee.rees@ntlworld.com Ideally this program is suited to websites that are involved in music, for example a DJ's homepage or a dance music site.
You may be curious as to why we are doing this, well we will benefit in exactly the same way as you, we don't mind having an unbranded forum and so will continue to use the community forum indefinatly. Please note that we are only accepting 40 websites onto this program and it's a first come first served scenario, so if you are serious then please join now to avoid disappointment.
Common Questions Answered:
Q) How much does it cost?
A) Nothing, also YaBB is a freeware product aswell.
Q) How do I stop my users going to the forum through leerees.com?
A) They never will because there is no reference to LeeRees.com in the forum design itself, it's totally unbranded meaning your visitors will think its your forum and therefore type your web address. Even the forums url is totally seperate from leerees.com, If anybody was to make a post concerning the forums origin we would promptly remove it.
Q) When can I move to stage 3?
A) Whenever you want. Just tell us and we will send you the data files aswell as instructions on how to install them. We recommend sites stay with the community forum for about 3 months in order to build up a sufficient amount of users.
What to do now:
Send an email to lee.rees@ntlworld.com stating that you want to join the program.
Contact Details:
Tel: 07050 124 174
Email: web@leerees.com
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