What Does It Cost To Start A Web Forum?

[moevillini]

Maybe a PM to Jason would get a better answer than what might be posted here.

Of course then you'd miss out on Dutch's great offer, but that might be a sacrifice you're willing to consider.

 

[DutchJazzer]

Visibility seems like it would be make or break. How does one get their site to come up at the top of search engines?

by paying google for it.
an d also get adsense so google pays you

 

[Gameface]

by paying google for it.
an d also get adsense so google pays you

adsense, thanks

 

[Gameface]

Maybe a PM to Jason would get a better answer than what might be posted here.

Of course then you'd miss out on Dutch's great offer, but that might be a sacrifice you're willing to consider.

Maybe he'll chime in.

 

[Siro]

I assume you pay the search engines.

Or maybe a human sacrifice to Google?

Google's page ranking is based on how many pages link to your page, and not how much money you pay them. Of course you can buy an add with Google, so that your result appears in the sponsored results at the top of the page, but you'd have to pay per click, and that can get super expensive for an individual running a game forum.

You get traffic by marketing your website on Reddit, official forums, and such.