HOW TO CREATE A FORUM WEBSITE WITH PHP BB

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    To create a forum website you must have to register your domain name first. Domain name is the name your website will bear, that is the name your visitors will type in their different browsers to reach you. to register your domain which looks like this www.greenwhitepolitics.com you have to register it with domain name accredited registrars. Domain king is a competent web hosting and domain name registration company. Click here to register your domain with them. But if you want to host your website, some web host providers will offer free domain name registration for you. Domain king offers free life time domain name registration when you host your website with them. Hosting of website is as easy as people think, anybody who can fill a form on the internet can host a website, all you need is a secured payment gateway like voguepay, click here https://voguepay.com/9954-0025952 to register with them and get your account today. All you need to do Is to navigate to the host website and sign up,choose the web hosting plan you want. Don’t go for the lowest price some times they have limitation, go with plans that have sizable disk space lets say about 2 gigabyte and bandwidth of about 20 gigabyte. Make sure you provide a valid email during your sign up stage because your web host provider is going to communicate important information about your newly hosted website and registered domain name to you.

     When your hosting has been done successfully, your web host provider will give you a control panel, control panel is the engine room of your website, please don’t allow anybody have access to your control panel password and username which your web host provider is going to communicate to you through your email.

TO BUILD A FORUM WEBSITE WITH PHP BB FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING STEPS

1.       Follow the control panel link and navigate to your control panel, log in into into your control panel. When you log in into your control panel go down to softaculous app installer and there you will see phpbb click on it to install at one click.

2.       Once your domain name is set properly you will see it in the drop down list. The blank field afterwards let you specify a sub directory in which to install the PHPBB. It will look like this www.yourdoaminname.com/forum. If you want to place your PHP BB in the root directory, that means once the visitors type your domain name the first thing they will see is your forum site, you will have to leave the field blank, but if your forum is just going to be just a section of your website then you have to indicate by placing it in a sub directory.

3.       Fill the requested information, make sure you have a valid email address, click install now once you are done.

4.       When the installation which takes few minutes is done you will be giving a url to administer your PHPBB powered forum website after you have confirmed your username and password. Don’t joke with these two things without it you can’t access your admin area.

5.       You can now visit the url that was given to you. fill the log in details and . you will be directed to the  forum home page but this time you will see administration control panel.

TYPES OF WEBSITE YOU CAN CREATE AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR FORUM WEBSITE.

If you are interested in having your own forum website I will like to give you a crew. Do you know that in Nigeria with the population of about 150 million people which have different categories of people with different background and interest that there is only few forums which cater for the needs of these people. Do you know that forum is a powerful website which has the capability of making a lot of money for you even without necessary having to pay a dime to create a content or even create any content yourself?

FORUMS THAT WE ARE YET TO SEE

Forums for professional bodies like doctors, lawyers, engineers, farmers, economists, bankers, teachers, business men, health workers, and many other categories f professions. These professional want a virtual place where they can hang out to rub minds together instead of the popular social network. This opportunity will put you in an advantage to make money faster instead of the normal blogging lifestyle many people are trooping to.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR FORUM WEBSITE

To make money with your forum website is very important, because without making money nothing will motivate you to continue. There are many ways through which you can make money with your website some of them includes;

AFFILIATE MARKETING

 Affiliate marketing is a good way through which you can monetize your forum website. All you have to do is to sign up to an affiliate program like Konga affiliate program click here to sign up now. Once you are given your affiliate codes and banner start placing the banner on strategic locations of your website so that visitors will click on the banner and make purchases which will yield a commission for you.

DIRECT ADVERTISEMENT

 once your forum website starts gathering traffics, the next thing to do is to reach out to top companies and offer them the chances to advertise their products and services on your website. This is a good strategy especially when your forum website has a reasonable amount of traffic.