Are you planning to launch a forum site?

Good, All the best but you have to know one thing before going to launch your forum site.

Forum sites now rock the world with fresh content than blog sites. That is why every blogger interested to start a forum site. Some of the webmasters create a forum site in a new domain. Similarly, remaining website owners launch forum site in a sub-domain. Creating a forum site in a sub-domain is a great idea than launching a forum site in a new domain. In other words, your forum site as well as blog site become popular if you host your blog site and forum site in same domain because search engines quickly give PageRank and also increase the website traffic within few months.

Webmasters can launch forum sites as a sub-domain in two ways. For example, i am maintaining my blog site at http://www.techze.com/. So, i can launch my forum site either one of below sub-domains.

  1. http://www.techze.com/forum
  2. http://www.forum.techze.com/

Launching a forum site in first way is not a great idea because your forum site dominates your blog site. In other words, my blog site becomes down if i launch my forum site at http://www.techze.com/forum because search engines offer more traffic to your forum site than your blog site by considering your forum as best content site than your blog site. The main reason is your forum site creates more content than your blog site. So, your valuable posts may not reach more Internet users than your forum posts.

That’s why, you have to locate your forum site in second way i.e (http://www.forum.techze.com/). Search engines considers this domain as part of your domain but consider as different domain. However, your forum site represented in this way gets PageRank as well as more traffic. Practically, i have observed this problem. So, don’t create your forum in first way. However, you can create your forum in first way but you have to redirect to second type sub-domain with permanent redirect technique. In other words, both domains work but your forum site is located in second type sub-domain.

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