Growth What social media platforms do you use to promote your forum?

[dorky]

I've tried all social media platforms when I had my mental health forum... and unfortunately, it didn't get much traction on either. if I were to rebirth my forum, I wouldn't use social media... however, Instagram has gotten bigger and more traction over the last year and might be successful if you were to create a page for your forum, or blog

 

[Sara]

We don't use social media except other resource boards, yes we have have a social section, games section and stuff like that, but they're small. We are primarily a graphics/themes support board. We have people dropping by making requests and we prioritize quality graphics for people. By doing this we have had great traffic as a result of word of mouth. We have been away for a couple of years and only just starting it up again and cleaning it up. We have had some really large successful boards in the past but decided on a resource board instead. Sometimes it is active and sometimes it is slower, but that is fine with us. We just plod along doin our our thing.

 

[Nomad]

I don't do a lot of promotion on social media because based on my personal experience social media audience and forum audience are different breed of people. People who are more used to seeing visual content on social media might never take interest in forums that mainly have text based content. However, if I have to use I mainly use facebook and X.

 

[Cpvr]

I've tried all social media platforms when I had my mental health forum... and unfortunately, it didn't get much traction on either. if I were to rebirth my forum, I wouldn't use social media... however, Instagram has gotten bigger and more traction over the last year and might be successful if you were to create a page for your forum, or blog

Instagram works well too. Their pages actually show up on the search engines, so it’s a great way to promote your forum on there.

Including your forum link on pictures can help a lot.