10 Profitable Reasons To Add A Discussion Board Or Chat Room To Your Web Site

Adding a discussion board or chat room to your web site is an effective way to increase the amount of comments and traffic. According to Web Hosting Stats, forums are the most used feature on website that offer them. Here are 10 reasons why you should add a forum or chat room to your site:

1) A forum is a great place for beginners who want something simpler than Facebook or Twitter but don't want nothing too complicated like Reddit. 

2) They are usually built into popular CMSes like WordPress, making installation simple and cost-effective for small businesses. 

3) Forums can be used by companies with one product line (like software, clothes, cars). They can help develop a brand identity.

4) Forums allow you to increase the amount of traffic coming to your site. Readers can share ideas and comments with each other. 

5) It will boost your reputation on search engines since people will be able to find you after searching for relevant keywords in your forum topics/posts. 

6) Forums are usually free! Many of them are just upgraded versions of the forums customers have built on their own web sites. 

7) You can add an RSS feed, which is a feature used by many blogs and news websites to keep their readers up-to-date on the latest articles posted on their forum or chat room (like TechCrunch). 

8) A forum is a great way to add more interactivity on your website, especially if you have a CMS that doesn't offer a blog, which is the most popular form of interactive content on the Web. 

9) A forum or chat room will definitely help you create an active community on your site, where you can sell more products and services. 

10) Forums can help increase the time visitors spend on your site (average visit time at CNN.com is 28 minutes). The higher the amount of time spent on your site, the higher your chances of conversions will be.