Kelvin Hui’s latest article is titled “Website Features for Community Building”. [Article Reprint]


Kelvin Hui’s latest article is titled “Website Features for Community Building”.

Website Features for Community Building

To build a good community inside the website, we cannot rely on a single feature.

What does it mean?

We know a web community can bring sustainable growth of website traffic. It’s essential for the long term development of any website. It’s also the value of your domain.

Indeed, some web publishers misunderstand that they MUST use a “FORUM” to build a community. Forum is one of the great web features for community building. Nobody can challenge.

Actually, a single website can have more than 1 feature for community building. Take a look at Yahoo, this company offers “Answers”, “Messenger”, “Personals”, “Groups”..etc. Yahoo also acquired Del.icio.us and MyBlogLog for the further development of its internal community.

Yahoo is still ranked No.1 website according to the traffic volume on the earth. Maybe you like Google more than Yahoo, it’s the fact that the traffic volume of Yahoo is the highest one.

If you have a forum and want to grow it bigger, definitely you can ask for a help from my friend Ryan Chua.

According to my experience, a forum can help and do a great job in traffic stablization. However, the speed of community formation by a forum may not be as fast as the other web features.

For me, I will use more than 1 (mostly 3 to 4) web features to build a big community for a single domain. They are integrated and produce 1+1 = 3 effect.

Like my Chinese project, I use an in-house web script and combine it with the forum, the traffic grows 300% faster than using a forum alone. Unlike the forum, I don’t need to take care of the admin work of the community inside the in-house web script because it is a software for the people to interact for wide range of the topics.

It’s like you open 2 doors to allow the visitors to come to your home. It’s always faster, right?

I suggest you to use different web scripts to build a community instead of relying on a forum alone. You need to face the fact that not many people love to stay at the forum. And a forum is not the only way for community building on the internet.

Anyway coin has 2 sides. Forum has its own value.

Website Features for Community Building

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*This article was submitted by Kelvin Hui.

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