General Topics > Marketing
Ideas how to promote the project
Nimitz1061:
Use add on developers, hosts and service providers to help build traffic.
One thing that could be done right away to help this process is to do some restructuring of the forums to provide clarity around where to find information that would be helpful to each of these types of partners. Right now, questions about the usage of cart features and which features would be desirable to end users are mixed with questions about how such features do or should work. This is not helpful to either users or providers.
Allowing providers to link to their own sites, and providing the ability to post their own latest posts to those sites will help as well. This should increase organic traffic from both search engines and other referrers..
Also - look at the forums and correct as many misspelled forum and subforum titles as you can. Extensions can only be spelled correctly one way in each language/dialect used. This type of thing is going to split keyword relevance between multiple 'words' and will probably reduce traffic relevance...
David
abantecart:
Can you please suggest the structure? This was original setup that we done to get started. Now at it gets more popular we need to have improved organization.
I have corrected the spelling. :-[
Mayank:
you should do a better by:
1)seo
2)post on all top forums, and free directories
3)talk with your users who are mostly active to promote by mouth, not only you your admin and modertors need to promote
4)also talk with softacoulus, fantastico to add abantecart,
5) Keep your support mail more promt because user need a quick response as other cart software has very dull support (Free one) you need to be take advantage of this
6) There are lots of news paper who provide free articles talk with them
7) Develop a better tutorials
8) be supportive always for your users
9) Be in partnership with freelancer developers and companies who develop eccommerce solutions
Hope this will help
Nimitz1061:
--- Quote from: abantecart on July 22, 2012, 08:50:19 PM ---Can you please suggest the structure? This was original setup that we done to get started. Now at it gets more popular we need to have improved organization.
I have corrected the spelling. :-[
--- End quote ---
Good start.
I'd begin by looking at the top level categories. General Topics and General Category mean the same thing. Leave General Topics as it is, leaving the forum names as is - this section is good. Change General Category to Store Operations. Add two new sections: Site Construction and Application Development. Move the install and configuration and Templates sections into Site Construction. Then move the Extensions and add-ons and feature suggestions forums to Application Development. Add an API discussion forum there, and a General Discussions forum in each new section.
I'd take a look after that and see what else occurs. In the existing Built In Features forum, I'd add some specific sub-forums based on feature categories - but those should be given some careful consideration before actually adding anything..
David
abantecart:
Thank you. I will take care of updating forum based on your comments.
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