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Unleashed Master Blueprint Has "Dead-End" Websites RUNNING FOR COVER...
"Power Launch From ZERO To 80,000 Forum Members In Just 6 Short Months..."
Discover How You Too Can Instantly Accelerate Your Site's Popularity And Forum Membership Through The Roof With Brutally Effective Tactics That "Average Internet Joes" Are Using To - Quickly and Easily Fire Up Their Communities, Boost Their Profits, And Explode Their Traffic...
From Ryan Chua
Forum
/ Community Entrepreneur
Asia - Singapore
Dear
Frustrated Site and Forum Owner, |
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There's
nothing worse than having spent the time and money to
set up your website and not having visitors stick around long
enough to digest your updates.
More
so if you have already implemented a blog, tirelessly
posted post after post about your interest or niche and
still not seeing the results that you deserve to have!
"...Websites
That Facilitate Communication And Interaction Will Eventually Be Awarded By Sustainable High Traffic Volume...."
 Ryan,
What
a wonderful book you have written!
I have
never met such an experienced community manipulator
like you. In the Web 2.0 era, forums are too important
for website traffic.
If traffic
is the oxygen of your online business, then forums
is the blood which carries your oxygen.
I
can foresee that the black hat websites will gradually
fade out in the market.
Only
websites which facilitate communication and interaction
will eventually be awarded by sustainable high traffic
volume. (Don’t forget that the Internet
was created to enhance communication.)
Forum
Secrets Revealed is the best course teaching the
webmasters how to effectively and manage
a community site while 95% of the webmasters
in the market are doing this dead wrong!
It covers
very detailed explanations in all aspects from theory
to practical solutions. More importantly, you have
even laid out a simple step-by-step demonstration so that even my grandma can also master the skills.
Your
killer secrets will definitely develop countless
community stars not only in traffic generation but
also traffic manipulation.
We suggest
all marketers who are keen on traffic generation
must put this book besides your computer. This is undoubtedly the TOP reference book and a MUST-READ
book for all Internet entrepreneurs.
Well
done, Ryan!
-
Kelvin Hui
CEO, Ambatch Systems
Build Websites Together
Ambatch.com |
"...You Unknowingly Released A 500lb Gorilla Pack To Stomp Other Normal Websites Out Of Oblivion...."
 Ryan,
I just laid down your book after reading it for 3 hours straight and MAN.... I have absolutely not seen a package focused so intensely on the topic of forums and online communities!
I'm a firm believer in embracing the power of online communities as they changed the way most entreprenuers started out in the internet world, and you have literally laid out the golden path to ensuring success for forum administrators who have their eyes on conquering their own niches!
I'll keep this short... but you unknowingly released a 500lb gorilla pack to stomp other normal websites out of oblivion! I am looking very forward to your next release...
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Jo Han Mok
#1 Best Selling Author, The E-Code
InternetMillionaireCode.com |
"...You Seriously Covered Everything...."
 Ryan,
Amazing stuff. I think you have definitely hit on everything, and considering there is nothing else out there like it!
I wish I had some great things to add, but you seriously covered everything.
I wish you the best success, Ryan - though I don't think you need to hear it from me. I think your forum material will do amazing things and there are tons of people out there that are desperate to learn exactly what you lay out in your book.
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Laura Alter
Master Forum Administrator & Internet Entrepreneur
NotebookForums.com 125,582 members | 2,470,333 posts |
"...I Am Extremely Impressed.
It Really Does Cover Everything About Community Management..."
"...I
must say - I am extremely impressed.
It really does cover everything about community management...I
would have paid top dollar for such a book when I
was first starting out.
I especially
liked how you integrated both the technical and administrative
aspects of the management as I don't believe
many people truly realize how interconnected
they are.
Certain
tools and tiny alterations in technical configuration can make a huge difference in the
culture of any sized community, and I think that you
really managed to show that.
Great job,
you have a lot to be proud of here!
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Jordan Greer
Master Forum Administrator
www.GTPlanet.net
98,428 Members | Threads: 86,386 | Posts: 2,454,658 |
"...Highlights
The Secrets That We Implemented To Bring Us To An
Alexa Ranking of 8,488 In December 2006..."
 Forget
Web 2.0. Forget the hype about all you've heard about
community traffic. If you fail to understand the basic
psychological principles of forum and community building,
you are literally committing online suicide.
The grand daddy of community
is the bulletin board, and forums are still extremely
viable as a source of loyalty and traffic.
To understand it at its most basic level is to know
how to run any kind of community site.
Ryan Chua is THE expert at forum and
community building. He masterfully weaves the technical
elements with the strategic elements to explode organic
traffic growth on your current website.
I've worked with him on several forum
based projects and I can say that I learnt a great
deal about the power of community through his insights,
including ways to get people participating
on forums in order to generate a greater
spirit of community.
My site, InternetMarketingSingapore.com,
went from 60+ members to the current 2,168 members
as at May 2007. It has been a brilliant contribution,
and definitely the book that highlights the secrets
that we implemented to bring us to an Alexa Ranking
of 8,488 in December 2006 and one of the top
100 websites in Singapore during that time.
This book is a brilliant read - especially
if you want to get ahead in business on the internet.
Forums, as studied by Ryan, can be one of your secret
weapons when seeking marketplace credibility
and branding.
If you want to ignore this treasure
trove of information, you'll lose out big time on
the value of the community and the hundreds of thousands
of dollars you are leaving on the table... while other
readers are going to use forums to grow their websites
rapidly, tap on long tail traffic,
and outrun YOU far faster than you can BLINK.
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Stuart Tan
MBA, BA (Hons)
Internet Marketing Coach
http://www.InternetMarketingSingapore.com
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"...A
Comprehensive Resource For New And Established Forum
Owners..."
 You've
put together a comprehensive resource for new and
established forum owners. I like how you go into
detail about the operational and technical issues
of installing a forum!
The sections
on managing the relationships within the forum is
something vital that I have not seen in similar
products.
Kudos
for putting together a quality product!
-
Andrew Wee
Blogging
& Social Traffic Specialist
WhoIsAndrewWee.com
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But
unfortunately, literally thousands of web site owners
around the world still do this unwillingly and painfully
everyday. Why?
The
reasons are many but the biggest one is this... They simply
don't know how to leverage on their own existing
visitors. And 99% of all gurus support the belief
that...
"Content
Is King!"
But The Burning Question Is....
Are You Serving It Like A Small Pawn?
As
you would have already known that the biggest drawing "bait"
factor of returning visitors is fresh and updated content. Content has always been and continues to be the burning fuel that drives people back
to your websites to return and to soak in new information.
The
major problem with quality content...is that it's DIFFICULT and just a pure pain in
the neck to create.
On
top of that you would have to be consistent
in posting updates, news and images(editing included)
just to keep your stream of visitors on and returning.
What goes into each news content is research, thought, some time writing and editing your post or entry. Unless you're
naturally gifted at writing and posting out good quality
content, it would take you anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour to churn out a quality article!
I
started out just like that about 5 years ago, way before
forums really got mainstream in the Internet. I had a
website all about cars and I spent a good time each day
hunting down images, and searching for their information
and then posting some copy which took me about half an
hour to write each time.
This
was just for a 500 word article which is laughable in
today's standards.
We All Start Out With
A Big Idea..
And
like most people, I started out alone...but very enthusiastically,
with big dreams and hopes of creating a website I could
be truely be proud of, and then hopefully earn some form
of income on it (I didn't know how much I could have potentially
earned back then).
Though
I really loved what I was doing,
a lot of hard work went into just updating the site
and doing all of the research by myself. It was getting
very exhaustive after a few months, and it came to no surprise
that my passion and energy in my site started to wither
and spiral downwards.
My site's front page
literally turned into a ghost town in a matter of two
short weeks.
My
Optimistic Soaring Enthusiam
Came Crashing Down HARD.. Leading To My Completely
Devastating Burnout...
Little
did I know that I was mentally burning out from just posting
persistently, trading links with other websites and hoping
for more visitors. It was like I was spinning all 4 wheels
on the ground and getting nowhere fast.
I was getting tired and frustrated, wishing that I didn't
spent so much time on the site at all. It didn't matter whether i posted day after day, or whether i posted in a week.
Being
completely frustrated, I just decided to let it lie dormant
and focus on other websites in different niches which
had been playing in my head.
And I believed at that time, that was pretty much the end to my sorry days of posting updates on my "passion".
Then One Email Changed Everything.
Now...
I don't exactly remember the exact words that was in it but it was from a visitor who mentioned that he was a regular visitor...
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"Hey
Ryan...what's up with your updates? I keep looking
forward to your news but they seem to be lesser
and lesser.
Are you busy
with school or something? Why don't you start a forum so we can talk?
I'm sure there are other visitors on the site..." |
I
certainly didn't think about implementing one at the time
as I didn't know jack about a forum or how to even set one up! Just purely out of curiosity,
I started out with phpBB, a free discussion forum software
which didn't cost a nickel. By the end of the day, I had
a grand total of 7 signups and 20 new threads (new
forum entries) that wasn't created by me!
At the
time, the site was still not being updated by me, however
the discussions were picking up from regular visitors to my site, and new members were
joining in the forum without my intervention.
My
web traffic started to increase steadily, and then it
clicked (actually it was more like a bomb going
off) in my head, that a discussion forum could truly
power a website almost entirely by itself! (and I felt
like giving myself a big slap to the head that I didn't
implement it earlier)
I
started to search the Internet for every available source
for help in order to help me increase my member registration,
community management, as well as tips and strategies on
modifying my forum to suit my market.
I visited over 15 webmaster forums, read over literally thousands
of forum threads and participated in many of them as well.
Unfortunately I didn't find a single, reliable resouce
that consolidated them into an easy to digest, "follow-and-implement" format.
There
were two main problems which I encountered...
MAIN
PROBLEM #1 - SMOKE BLOWERS- Many
people in the webmaster forums were giving out generic how-to half-baked solutions on how to run successful forums when they didn't even have forums themselves.
It was just like someone who never had kids telling a parent on how to raise
a child the right way, or someone trying to teach you how to ride a bike, when they couldn't do it themselves.
Right...
MAIN
PROBLEM #2 - TIME WASTED-
Useful and genuine information were scattered in the million of forum
threads in the webmaster forums. While most forums focused on the topic discussions,
I had to go over tonnes of banter and off-topic diversions while trying to lock onto
the really good stuff.
It was honestly like sifting through a field of 6 foot
hay on one leg while trying to get to the farmer's barn.
It was an awful waste of time.
During the first 36 months of struggling, I implement and test so-called "strategies"
which were complete utter disasters...but in the process discovered some
few golden strategies(amidst millions of dud ones) which worked like a dream!
It was only a year and a half later that I started to
compile the information down for my own personal reference.
So
Why Am I Qualified To
Tell You All About Discussion
Forums?
I
have been making my living on the Internet since since
2001. I run other online businesses in the areas of e-commerce
and content publishing, and have 6 mature websites which
generate me a very happy income online.
Since
then I have also successfully helped grown my own friends forums in various
niches.
But
before I get your hopes up, I would like to warn you that
this letter is not about "How To Get Rich Quick"
or promising you immediate and guaranteed success... nothing
of the sort.
I
had started other forums in niches which I was confident
about, that crashed and burned faster
than you could say "Entschuldigen!".
Forums do take real time
and real effort
to keep going and growing until a point where it doesn't require
you to actively look after it.
I have
been on both sides of the fence and I can relate in full honesty that it is downright demoralising to be the owner
of a dead forum. It certainly wasn't a walk in
the park like how I envisioned it was in the beginning.
You
see, I 'm a big fan of cars especially towards BMWs (okay
you may like other brands but just stick with me), and
back then I didn't even have the license to drive one or come
close to owning one, however I decided to start a forum
based on the brand just because
I was interested in a particular model.
Starting with less than 7 members back then (who were
all close friends and still are my closest buddies today),
my BMW forum has grown and developed into a huge forum community
consisting of over several thousand members who return
to visit and contribute on a very regular and daily basis.
I
would say that the best part of all is that most of the
new members I have met online, have worked out to be great
business associates and close friends offline.
Over
the recent years, I 've built up traffic and reputation
to my BMW enthusiasts' website and currently, my primary
forum is currently the largest advertised-on
forum in the country alone!
And no..I am not talking about even the most "highly-recommended-by-most-gurus" Google Adsense. Although I do earn some pretty consistent earnings from it as well. Below is just a sample screenshot of my earnings.
Clicks and CTR Figures are blacked out due to Google Adsense policies.
My forum has generated thousands of dollars in residual revenue
through over 20 different direct advertisers and services, which
includes Global and Multi-National companies including
an well renown international credit card company,
with a member list of just under 10,000 members!
Many of my current sponsors don't even have a web site or are even educated much about the Internet, but still pay thousands of dollars directly to my bank account each and every month.
"...Suitable
For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Forum Administrators..."
 Ryan,
This book has got to
be the BEST book ever to layout EVERY single tip and tricks on managing a forum.
At a staggering 300 over
pages, and yet with no fluff, the content is truely
gold.
The best thing is you did not assume ANYTHING. This book is suitable
for beginners, intermediate and advanced forum administrators too!
The worst thing is you
made me felt silly because I thought running a forum was just to
install it on my site and to let it run...how wrong i was!
Thank you very much Ryan!
I am sure your suite will save a lot of my community headaches!
-
Vince Tan
Search Marketing and Affiliate Specialist
www.VinceTan.com
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"...
demographics showed that over 80 per cent of the
members are older than Ryan.
But at 23, the young
man has already played club leader for four years...."
Zoe
Toh
One.Motoring
Land Transport Authority (Singapore) |
It
goes to show how much emphasis and attention are being
placed on community-driven target niche portals as the social
scene heats up to unheard-of levels!
So far I have been
very lucky in my online endeavours and today I play advisory roles to other
forum administrators who have sought out my experience and I also co-administer
4 other extremely busy forums in various differing niches without taking even more than 45 minutes of my day.
Back
to the topic of having your own forum...is that if you
haven't already known...
Implementing
An Optimized Forum Backend Is
Akin To Legally Pumping Up Your Website
With Unstoppable Content-Rich
Steriods
The
plain undeniable fact is..
Forums are clinically
engineered to be extremely efficient and powerful social systems.
They are set in place to leverage your existing
web traffic, and to allow each and every of your unique
visitor to have the complete power to create new content and interact with other visitors
on your site, without you even asking them
for it.
This
action alone empowers you with an unfair advantage over
other site owners who rely heavily on themselves
to provide content on their "static" websites.
(and I sincerely hope that's not what you intend to
do for the next few years.)
An added benefit
is that it allows registered members to create and personalize their own profiles,
allowing them to develop a closer relationship to your community
with their own unique avatars and creative signatures!
Can I Take You Aside For Some Blunt Talk?
Honestly... can you post more than 3 times a
day consistently? How about
5 times a week? It's tough as nails and hiring
a full time writer doesn't come cheap. Trading your
own time to struggle through the research and creation
of an article to be posted will cost you even more if
you don't know what you're doing.
Another reason why forums are so popular among huge sites is
because they run like perfectly like well-oiled automated
systems, sorting, updating and notifying each of your
members on the different changes on fresh, unique
content that take place each and every hour, of
each and every day without fail or compromise.
This is because when members post a new thread or reply,
other visitors can read and comment on it immediately,
kicking off an unstoppable "new thread-reply-reply-reply-reply..."
snowball effect which fortunately, just
doesn't stop even if you wanted it to! And what happens in the next second is that another member will start a NEW thread..and the cycle keeps going...
Another
plus point is that gaining an reputation via your own
forum is one of the quickest way to ensure that your
website rises quickly above the rest to be recognized
as an authority site in its field.
Visitors
will flock in the thousands to
a site which generates the fastest and and most relevant
information such as detailed solutions and answers...
even if its content is NOT created by you! I'll explain
this more in detail later...
The
cold hard truth is that you wouldn't visit a site or
blog if it wasn't updated regularly. It's just common
sense! Unfortunately most webmasters think they can
do it all by themselves.
People Depend More
On Forums
More Than Anything Else On The Internet...
People
(like you and I) are constantly searching
the Internet for information and solutions on how to solve
specific problems that they face, and the majority of
solutions are always found on a forum where one
or more people have already resolved through a discussion
thread consisting of postings.
As
an example, do you remember the last time you had a technical
problem with your Windows software and queried the search
engines with a particular error message?
Chances
are that the search engines directed you to a discussion
forum with a solution posted by a few members!
Being
a well established authority forum certainly has it's
perks as being the immediate go-to place
to find a solution to a particular problem.
Can
you imagine what you could achieve even with just
1/10th or even just 1/25th of their traffic? Or just picture the undying loyalty
of having just 500 members on your forum returning each
and every day, contributing page after page after
page of information, detailed solutions for every
problem and reviews for each and every minute?
The
collective input of just 100, 50, 30, 5 active contributors and posters will
outshine even the most prolific and active blogger.
The
Easiest and Most Severely
Unrated
Search Engine Optimization Tool
Ever...
If you still don't believe that a forum can make a big difference to where your website stands today in the search engines... take a look at a screen capture of my latest Google Analytics "Keywords Screenshot". This is a period of 1 month in May 2007 till June 2007.
My forum had 15,866 keywords which pulled free traffic from the search engines this month without even me even having to spending a SINGLE DIME on advertising.. Now most SEO experts will tell you optimize for 30 - 100 keywords if possible on your new content site. But can you even optimize more than 50 pages with 500 keywords which get searched on within a month?
How about 1000 keywords? Or 5000 keywords?
The most incredible thing is...I didn't lift a finger to create those keywords.
My forum members DID all the work for me! The best part...they are continuing to do that for me each and every day. With every thread and post they create, my site's "size" grows organically day in...day out (over 40-50 new pages added each day), and without any "black-hat" tricks involved. The larger forums I work with are adding over 100 new pages on an hourly basis.
I'm no SEO "Expert" or "Guru" either nor am I using some spammy software script... the absolute truth is.. I'm just your average Internet joe.
But tell any SEO "Expert" or "Guru" today that you want to optimize your Website today for just 10,000 keywords which are searched on, with a minimal time and budget ... and chances are that they'll fall off their chairs in complete disbelief at what you're asking for!
The truth and fact
is in the pudding. Google, MSN and Yahoo! search engines loves my site's organic
growth and absolutely unique user-generated keyword-related
content, and they (the big search giants) continue to send traffic
to me each and every day as a small reward. Today i have over 250,000
pages indexed in Google and Yahoo.
Just try achieving that with your
blog!
But If
You Already Have A Blog... The Initial Struggle
Already Has Been Half Won And Winning It In Your Likely
Favour!
If you are already
running an active blog with repeat visitors, it is to your immediate
advantage that implementing a forum could bring your site to another
level of traffic that you have not experienced before.
The
issue with blogs that I personally don't like is that
the posts that you write, which generate "topical"
comments, severly restricts the conversation that your visitors
would LOVE to have with you and with one another!
Isn't it true that your
repeat and regular blog visitors are users who are attracted to your
content, and very likely to have the same or extremely
similiar interests with other
readers?
That's why sometimes
you see different comments being left by visitors being
directed to another as "quoting" in popular
blog posts.
If you have already seen that... That's a clear sign to you to start a forum on your site already!
Exceptional
bloggers such as Steve Pavlina, the world's leading personal
development blogger, runs a forum on their own backend
to enhance discussions with his readers
on each blog posts he creates. His readers pours in their
thoughts, comments and other suggestions and he has a
deeper understanding on what they want and how he can
write a new post each time to cater to their needs.
His blog readers start
meaningful discussions with each other, assist one another, share experiences
and bond together to form an even closer relationship on
his forums! Over time, his blog visitors become forum regulars, who become
friends, into valued content contributors, who in turn drive even more blog
AND forum visitors, and attract search engine crawlers with unique, fresh
content!
How's that for an
truely organic community which grows without ever slowing down?
And that's the biggest secrets that form the basis of a truely self-sustaining
website.
The ideas are probably
already popping into your head on the limitless potential you could
do for your own site. But...I want to be open and upfront about it
before you think it's just a matter of installing another software script.
In
fact is you could download a free forum
script RIGHT NOW and immediately set
up your own forum this very instant!
But unfortunately, the harsh and painful reality is...
Starting
A Forum Can Be A
Long Painful Crutch In Your Back...
If You Didn't Know How To Manage It RIGHT With Ruthless Efficiency.
There
is not a shadow of a doubt that a forum is one of the
best ways to ensure returning web traffic, and many experienced
site owners already know that implementing
one as part of their web generation and traffic retainment
strategy is absolutely crucial and essential
to their site's survival.
"...Much Valued Information (Practical, Usable, Doable And Very Realistic)..."
 Hey Ryan
I am totally impressed
with Forum Secrets Revealed!! I’m not a techie, but your
structured and well-organised way of presenting all
your information really made it so easy for me to not just understand,
but also to digest and make sense of.
Talk about information. I
guess FSR has provided so much valued information (practical, usable,
doable and very realistic) that I can’t think of any questions
and doubts I have in my head regarding forums that weren’t answered!
I love that generous use of graphics, especially on parts where you
are going more technical.
Guess what? I actually got
hooked from the first page on!
Now, I’m not just motivated
to start a forum myself, I know it’s totally possible
that I can do it by myself.
I won’t hesitate to
recommend this fabulous resource to anyone who is seriously considering
having a forum. And if they aren’t, they will once they’ve
gotten hold of this. Just like me. What a gem!
Cheers!
Kloudiia Tay IIng
Love Coach & Author
www.Kloudiia.com
P.S The interviews with those
experts are so interesting and full of real-life scenarios that could
happen. Very thoughtful of you to hunt these people down and let us
hear them!
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Just
look at any popular authority website today and you'll
most likely find that in 8 out of 10 of them, a discussion
forum resides as part of their core community strategy.
The painful part is that the majority of new forums never
lift off the ground is because the administrator simply
doesn't know how to properly pilot a social jet fighter.
We
all know how fast a F-16 jet fighter plane can
fly, and how lethal it can be to it's enemies... but can
you jump right into a fighter jet cockpit right this minute,
start its engines and even take it off the ground?
The
very same idea applies to a forum! Whenever someone wants
to establish or start their own forum, they get bombarded
and bogged down instanteneously by a monstrous list of
"problem missiles" such as:
It's no wonder
people throw their hands up, scream bloody murder and give
up so quickly. After all, it's much easier to force yourself
to post your own unique content daily IF you didn't know
how to run and manage a forum properly and effectively!
At this point
you may be asking...
"So...What
Other Ways Can
I Use To Sustain My Web Traffic?"
If
you are still not convinced that a forum can radically transform
your static website into an energetic community, you may
have already put your valuable time, sweat and money into
the following techniques...
Article / Content Publishing
Daily Blog Postings
Building Reciprocal Links
Paying for private label content
Search Engine Optimization
Directory Submissions
Link exchanges
Expensive Pay Per Click Campaigns
And much, much more...
Yes
I feel your pain. You've gone nearly through the full 8
miles with as much trouble and frustration as it is, and
I am not going to confuse you with any technical php-asp-geek
facts or SEO-boggling advice that even make the most professional
search experts pull out the hairs on their head.
You
may have even attempted to follow "The Gurus"
advice on strategies of re-writing scraped content or using
free (but duplicated) articles on your sites in an attempt
to get the search giants to notice your hard work and best
efforts, or have purchased "Out-Of-The-Box" businesses which are "turn-key" solutions to earn you XX, XXX money online.
Some
of them may even offer to sell you automated blogging software which
serves to do nothing but junk the Search Engines with meaningless material.
The brutal fact that the search engines WILL
penalize your site severely for having such duplicate content
and using black-hat strategies. Thousands of such black-hat
sites have already suffered the death blow by Google since
June 2007 for flouting their internal Quality score for
spammy like sites.
Sorry,
but I personally dislike and will never teach others to
depend on black-hat short term tricks
in return for long term returns.
"...Concise Information On How To Effectively
Manage a Forum..."
 Hey
Ryan,
When I
finally received a copy of your Forum Secrets, I realized
that it was worth the wait! It’s really has
very concise information on how to effectively manage
a forum. I, being a design klutz, am very poor with
the design elements.
Your design
tips, not only shown me how to have a simple yet appealing
website, but more importantly shown me how to use
graphics to drive the most value for my readers.
Of course,
they are so many gems of information in your product
that it would take me 10,000 words just to finish
my evaluation. Thanks for creating such a fantastic
product!
Thank you
Ryan!
-
Ming Chern
Internet Marketing Technical Coach
www.RisingIMStar.com
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Online
Social Interactions Equate To An Unstoppable Traffic Stablizer
Active social
interactions can put an immediate end to the wild and unpredictable
rollercoaster ride of your web traffic. It is absolutely
pointless to do burst of article
contributions, link building, on-page optimization and other
short term techniques which attract a rise in traffic...
which is only temporary!
It's a terrible feeling I know. But unless you do the above
consistently for a longer period of time
(between 4-6months) you will find that the journey is going
to be a long and painful one.
I've
been there and done that more than twice, and I vowed to
NEVER do it again.
Not many site owners know this thoroughly, but a well structured
forum on your site's backend is a great but sneaky way to
entice your visitors and keep them there.
Yes... KEEP THEM THERE! It's very much like luring them
into a cool and cozy lounge and keeping them entertained
for hours...
The best part
is that they'll thank YOU for it.
"...Amazed
By The Amount of High-Quality Information You Have
Inside..."
 Hi
Ryan,
I've just
had a look at Forum Secrets Revealed, and to tell
you the truth I'm amazed by the amount of high-quality
information you have inside your ebook of yours.
Building
a forum had always been my personal weak spot, and
I discovered the hard way and I discovered that it's
hell of a lot harder than it seems.
In fact
there are tons of dead forums out there and
I don't want my forums to be one of them.
As of today
I already have 2 forums, one using VBulletin and another
private forum using SMF. I'm really looking forward
to implementing some of the techniques you've mentioned
in your ebook, and your list of resources and tips
for each individual forum system and are simply
mind-boggling!
Thank you
so much for this wonderful product!
-
Gobala Krishnan
Niche Marketing Specialist
InternetIncomeMastery.com
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It's no wonder
and surprise that after I implemented and tweaked 2 completely
unique forums in different niches on both my partners' sites,
their web traffic have seen nothing but continuous growth
and progress up the alexa chart!
Just check out the success in the Alexa Traffic Chart below.
The result after
implementing a discussion forum? Passing and browsing visitors
were now staying, registering with their contact information , posting, returning and interacting
with each other... unconsciously being addicted and emotionally attached to their own forum experience. It is
and continues to be one of the most easiest traffic bait ever.
Having a forum
working tirelessly on your "backend"
also allows you to effectively...
Harness
And Implement
The Pulling Power Of U.G.C...
It comes as no
surprise that the highest trafficked sites of the world
today are powered by this very interesting term, U.G.C
- User Generated Content.
Wikipedia.com
explains it as:
"...User-Generated
Content is a term that has come into
the mainstream during 2005 in web publishing and new
media content production circles. It refers to on-line
content that is produced by users of websites as opposed
to traditional media producers such as broadcasters
and production companies....
...marks a shift among media organisations from creating
on-line content to creating the facilities and framework
for non-media professionals (i.e. 'ordinary people')
to publish their own content in prominent places....
" |
Unless you have
been living under a rock, you would have already heard of
these sites...
- MySpace
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Wikipedia
- Facebook
All of the sites
above does several things differently (from sharing videos
to images), however the biggest similiarities among them
is that they come equipped with an efficient architecture
to easily allow their visitors to easily contribute
content and interact with each other.
Such sites has
been termed "Web 2.0" sites and have been the
hottest buzz for the recent years.
The biggest issues
and problem is that creating systems such as the ones above
can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in careful market research, software development, testing and human
resources!
A forum software on the other hand, easily allows you implement
the social aspects of such "Web 2.0" sites into
your existing website within 15 minutes and with zero risks and minimal costs.
Even CNN.com,
the world's most popular news network implemented their
own U.G.C strategy through their newly
launched CNN Exchange....
"User-generated
content has the potential to play a pivotal role in
journalism whether it's online or offline,
With CNN Exchange, we've essentially created a one-stop
shop for CNN.com users to share their contributions
with other Internet users."
Mitch Gelman
Senior Vice President / Executive producer
CNN.com |
The best part is you too can plug in a forum at an extremely
small price (or even free if you feel like testing it out)
onto your own site to implement U.G.C strategies
to develop, grow and attract even more
traffic while legally using other people's content on
your own domain!
It's Still Not Too Late
To Grow
And Own Your Own Big Forum...
I
may not know much about you but I 'm definitely not the
sort of person to sit on my rump constantly straining to
write content and straining to update my sites all the time.
It's way much better to use social leverage and it's due
time for you to work smart and reap the rewards of 'smart
thinking' rather than 'dull droning'.
I
will be upfront with you and not be like the other wannabes
who attempt to pull wool over your eyes..
Building a huge
thriving forum based on your own interests will
take time and real effort (ranging
from 6 months to a year and a half), but the benefits of
a recurring visitors , stable traffic stream and increasing membership
database will be more worthwhile than spending the same
amount of time not taking the option of leveraging their
visitors.
Once
you establish a stable base of loyal forum members, they
will naturally assist your forum's growth by posting content
and inviting their own friends and associates into your
web domain. Just picture the expotential growth of your own
site's popularity in 1, 2, 5 years time when it becomes
one of the most respected web juggernauts!
The
only time when it's too late, is when you decide not to
start one at all.
But If you have already spent a tonne of your resources(valuable
time) and money studying and buying traffic leads, strategies
and sources... take this limited chance now to completely
discover a resource which can revolutionize
the way you grow, control and stablize your online traffic
using the sledgehammer power of a forum...
Introducing
The
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2007...
"Forum
Secrets Revealed
Volume 1 & Volume 2"
"The
Absolutely NO B.S Strategy Series
to Power Launch, Administer And Boost Your Own Thriving Community Using The
Power Of A Forum!"
This pair of resources
is absolutely like none you have ever seen.
It dives past the doubts
and questions of every community owners "How-to's"
and provides a clear and distinct path to forum success!
Just some
of the components of:
Volume 1 (Foundation & Traffic
Mastery)
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Correctly identify
and laser pinpoint your specific market in order ensure long term sustainability and survival |
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Why focusing on the
wrong market can be a huge
waste of your time and effort, and how you can bypass that process
with this easy 3 step planning process. |
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Obtain the "must-have"
tools and development software for any successful forum owners' arsenal.
Hint: These 4 tools will allow you to weld absolute proficiency
in managing your essential files and scripts. |
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Determining with
confidence on what you should look out for when deciding which web host
and setup to ensure that your forum doesn't go belly-flopping within a month. |
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A breakdown of the web's most
popular and secure forum scripts - and how to research and decide on the exact forum
software you will use and immediately reduce the chances of starting out on the wrong foot! |
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Looks can KILL! Make sure you're not the hunted by effectively boosting your own forum's
personality and branding through tried and proven web design principles
and templates so your members will NEVER forget about your forum... and keep them returning for more! |
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Discover how implementing the right "action"
buttons and icons can turn up a significant increase in member participation. |
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Create the optimal amount of forums
to structure discussion areas so they don't end up as horrifying "ghost towns"
which will scare visitors away as quickly as they come! |
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Strategize and increase
targeted web traffic to boost your membeship rates through the roof through
the use of 7 site-leveraging tactics. |
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How to correctly and use existing
social networks to your advantage by attracting and inviting potential members
to your forum. |
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Effectively tweak and
optimize your forum for the search engine spiders to rank you highly in
the SERPs for specific keywords to ensure visibility for visitors looking
for you. Learn the very same tactics that have made the search engines (Google
and Yahoo)index more than 470,000++
over threads and pages on my forums! |
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Discover how some of my off-line
strategies that has been more dramatically effective than using existing
online marketing "techniques". (In fact, some of these tactics have served me more than
6000 over returning members in a extremely short period of time!) |
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Uncover the biggest successes of winning forums - their R.O.R Factor. Learn how to exploit this
huge advantage to the fullest and expotentially boost the growth of your member database! |
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And Much, Much More...! |
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