How to Add a Forum to Your Website

Posted by Ian on 28 January 2010 34 Comments

A good way to make your website more popular is to add a forum or a blog to it.

In this post I will tell you how you can increase your site’s popularity by creating a forum (message board).

Many people prefer websites that have either a forum or a blog as, this way they can easily contact the webmaster and they can ask for tips and advice from the community. So, a good way to increase your site’s popularity and credibility is to add a forum or a blog to your website and interact with your visitors.

How to Add a Forum

If your web host (the one that hosts your site) offers a forum platform, you will have your forum up & running with a few clicks (and with no cost). You will have both your website and forum hosted on the same account.

If your web host doesn’t offer a forum platform, you will need to buy a forum software that is compatible with your hosting. A well-known forum software is vBulletin. But this way you will have to pay both for your web hosting and for the forum software.

My recommendation is to pay attention when choosing your web host. Make sure it offers a platform so that you can add forums, shopping carts, datafeeds, blogs and other server-side functionality, as well as unlimited disk space and unlimited monthly traffic, so that you can extend your website whenever you want without extra costs.

Here it’s a list of cheap web hosts that offer all the above mentioned features.

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Eveline Eveline says:

When I add a forum to a website, do I have to add a subdomain?

Ian Ian says:

Eveline :

When I add a forum to a website, do I have to add a subdomain?

You can either create your forum on a subdomain (forum.yourwebsite.com) or simply as another part of your website (www.yoursite.com/forum/).

benny benny says:

is phpBB good? i have a friend who uses vBulletin. but it is pricey…

Ian Ian says:

benny :

is phpBB good? i have a friend who uses vBulletin. but it is pricey…

vBulletin has some extra features, but phpBB is also a good forum platform.

Philliph Philliph says:

Honestly, I prefer to have my forum self hosted, but I like to have it on a different domain, so that I can place links to my website on it.

nigel nigel says:

Philliph :

Honestly, I prefer to have my forum self hosted, but I like to have it on a different domain, so that I can place links to my website on it.

I like that too! You can place some links to your website :D

nice post. I would love to follow you on twitter.

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