network (that the right word)?

[sabret00the]

ok so i know that a couple members banded together to make a network but recently i've been thinking about an actual forum network, this would work in a way where if you ran a sports board for example that would be the members you'd like to attract so if someone else had a tech board they'd be happy to point folks wanting to talk about sports there. i dunno it's just an idea i had as i run a chit chat forums and thought what would be the best way to attract forum goers who want to just chit chat. i actually accidentaly tested this idea when i joined a forum and posted my link in their links directory and it was displayed in a prominant position on their site, i had a few members sign up just so they could chit chat which wasn't what that board was for. i dunno if you managed to follow me to here, what do you think of the idea of using different forums to compliment eachother, it's like 3rd party advertising in a way, as they're reach out for members in there own way and then their members would get reached out by you. oh well just an idea i thought of and thought i'd share

[Chris M]

You would be better off building one super-forum instead of relying on links from other forums...

Satan

[sabret00the]

nah i like my forum and i like running, i just want it to grow via different audiences hence this method

[Velocd]

Egad.

For the love of vBulletin.org, please use paragraphs in your posts! Text is so damn hard to read when everything is clumped together and nothing is capitalized correctly.

Anyway.

I believe what you are searching for are those things known as "Web Rings."

Usually the larger ones aren't too easy to attract members onto your site, but join maybe a smaller or more topic-oriented web-ring that concerns your forum.

Or a banner exchange network, go out and affiliate like mad. Affiliations are networks.

[Erwin]

Good idea actually. What you can do is use other forum categories that redirect to the other sites. In fact, great idea. So all these forums redirect to each other, forming a forum network.