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Traffic needed to support a forum?

by Scott Bird | November 16, 2006
Filed in Blogging

Roman ForumAn interesting point was raised in a recent discussion on commenting - the level of traffic required for a site to satisfactorily create a forum. The forums which started this line of thought were the superb ones on Steve Pavlina's site, which contain a level of integration with the blog in several areas not always seen in such installations. This integration deepens his contact with the site's readers. How much traffic should a site have before launching forums?

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Scott, you're officially an SOB! Contratulations.

If a blog has good, solid traffic, it seems to me that it constitutes a forum in itself.

Posted by: Carolyn Manning | November 18, 2006 5:37 PM

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Thanks Carolyn.

My current thinking is that a forum is intended to be a two-way process, whilst a blog can be. If the intention is to effectively use the commenting facilities, a bit of effort is required as well as the traffic.

Posted by: Scott | November 19, 2006 12:23 AM

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