Growing an online community takes a lot of effort, dedication and time, however, some methods are great for helping you grow your online community. Especially post exchanges with other forum owners, promoting your forum on social media and building an audience.

 

You're also able to promote your community on online directories, which is a great idea, especially if the directory is viewed a lot and used. ForumPromotion's directory, the directory here, AAF'S directoryhttps://anotheradminforum.com/directory/) (and the https://www.forumdirectory.com/ are awesome places to help you attract new members. Every directory that you use is valuable as you never know who may come across your forum via these directories.

 

Forum signatures are also a good way to drive new members to your forum, especially if you utilize it on every forum that you're a member of. If you're an active contributor of a board, it'll be simple to drive more members to your forum, as their members will come across your signature and more than likely join your forum.

 

It's a good idea to establish your forum's presence on social media by creating dedicated pages for it. Especially on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Threads and Bluesky. As long as you don't just promote topics an actively contribute with your audience, you'll drive some good traffic to your board in the long run.

 

Tumblr is great for building backlinks as is threads. Everytime another users reposts your content, you'll gain more backlinks. Being visible is one of the best ways to grow your online community. Advertising everywhere is the best thing that you can do, especially since it'll help your core rankings on the search engines as well.

 

 

So, with that being said, what are some of your favorite methods to help you grow your online community? What has helped you, and what hasn't?

I enjoy engaging in post exchanges to help grow and promote my forums. I've also got a good number of members by promoting one of my communities on Reddit. I need to get around to promoting my other communities as well, but I'll need to find appropriate sub reddits.

Interacting often with users on social media sites, helps, and partnerships I've gained also help me grow my community.

Mainly forums.

 

I don't often worry about other promotional methods but forums. AAF is a forum of forum and blog owners, so I try to regular on related forums, create good content, and showcase the link to AAF in my signature.

 

However, I do have a few forums that I can promote in other ways.

 

I can use my hiking brand to promote my hiking forum. I do this through YouTube, Facebook, my newsletter, and other social media channels as well as my blog.

 

I run a local cycling forum, as well. I use YouTube and word of mouth to promote it.