Anyone having success adding a forum to their myspace site?

[George]

I want to add a forum to my myspace site. Anyone done this and found success with members actually staying and posting if you make good topics and forum sections related to owning a myspace page?

[Drew]

Very few sites seem to have success doing this.

Some of the big sites have nice active forums, but I can't think of a smaller site that I have visited that has a forum that doesn't look like a ghost town.

[PGZ]

I had forums on some of my sites but forwarded that traffic here to sign up. More gurus here and someone is almost always on to help.

PGZ

[Scilynt]

I've had a forum on my site since the start and although there were a few real signups and post almost all of it is just spambots hitting it. I used phpbb since it's easy to install and free but an easy target for the spambots.

Maybe if you have a huge amount of traffic and can push those people there and they get active right away, it would work. Otherwise it's really hard to build a decent community off that type of site. I've been planning on removing my internal links for a while now and will probably just do what PGZ does and forward it here.

[Connections]

I have ahd one you get a few people asking questions about things on the site, probelms with things on myspace etc etc...

I guess if you have heaps of traffic it could be effective, MY GEN seems to have a massive forum, its also a effective way of getting a mailing list from a demographic that is interested in your site, this is just another marketing idea generated by forums.

[fryman]

I guess if you have heaps of traffic it could be effective

Exactly, you would need to have loads of traffic so your forum is active, no one likes to visit a forum where the last post was 3 weeks ago

You would also have to LOVE having a forum, since it is real hard work. Moderating it, fixing problems, replying to threads where no one else has replied...

And, of course, forums are tough as hell to monetize.