Building a forum around your blog is one of the best ways to build a solid, dynamic community that will go on even with you not being involved. I am not suggesting that you should set up a forum and just take a 6 month vacation. At the same time, having a community that goes beyond your posts and allows people to get involved and make their own content can certainly be beneficial to you and your blog. If you take a look at the top blogs around, you’ll see that those that have gone to become major media sources have built up their base through their forums. These folks usually register both .com and .net version of their domains. They dedicate the .com version to a blog whereas the .net domain is usually reserved for forums, online communities, and beyond.
There are two ways to use your vBulletinsoftware. You can just choose the forum software (which is what I recommend). That makes it possible for you to use WordPress as your main CMS and integrate your vBulletin forum into your community without too much trouble. vBulletin’s publishing suite is a premium package that you may not need, especially if your community is based on WordPress. There are many reasons to adopt vBulletin, but here are 5 reasons that stand out:
All in all, vBulletin is a great software package to add a forum to your blog. You can always change the CSS to keep the look and feel consistent across your properties. I do recommend using a separate domain for your forum just to be on the safe side. If you have registered both .com and .net versions of your domain, you can dedicate one to your blog and the other to your forum. Managing a forum next to your WordPress blog can add to your daily work, but if your forum gets popular, you are going to get a lot of free traffic and hits, that could help your blog as well. A premium forum script such as vBulletin certainly makes things easy.
What’s your favorite forum software?
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