If the 5th ad is the one my visitor is interested in, great, I'll definitely take the click.

But my point is I'd take away the possibility of having my visitor click on a less profitable link and have them look at the more profitable ones instead if I went with 4 instead of 5. This is only a hypothesis though, so I'm uncertain if this would hold true or not.

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Dinky mentioned adding a new forum within the Links SQL section for business development/promotion with Links - great idea.

I've found that once I had the look etc. under control the focus shifted to how to promote the site and bring in more traffic. I'm thinking of adding a forum to my site, both for general topic discussion and more specific discussion on links (suggestions, etc.). Has anyone had any experience in adding a forum and increasing 'stickiness'?

Would be nice to have somewhere for us to discuss how to make more money with Links SQL .

Yeah, a business section would be quite cool :) (members only maybe?).


If you do this... then be sure to get the mod_rewrite and search engine friendly templates setup. GT has some HUGE traffic coming from Google, which seems to be directly related to the forum (a lot of Perl questions that I'm trying to find the answer on, the GT forums come up in the first few results ). This is a great traffic builder, and once Google starts spidering your forum, then you will soon have literally thousands of new pages spidered, with potential traffic being increased. Obviously if your Google PR isn't brilliant (a 5 should be enough), then it may not spider the whole of your forum, but just 4-5 levels deep (which should be enough).

I'm just waiting for Google to update their PR's again (been an age since the last one). Then, I can see how well the forum gets spidered :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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I'll definitely be SEOing the forum as much as the Links SQL part of the site. I just tweaked my category.html template the other day and I'm already starting to pick up a little more traffic .

I would probably use vBulletin for the forum. What worries me a bit is the usual problem with new forums - lots of lurkers and not many posters. My target market is not tech or IT based either so there would be a bit of education and familiarisation to be done.

Pity we can't post polls here, I'd be keen to see who is interested in a business forum.

Promoting your site isn't always about business and revenue. Other possible examples: campaigning, success in attracting contributors, quality of forum discussion, penetrating a niche market, etc.

A forum about site promotion -- in general, but including revenue models of course -- might have wider appeal.