Give the Topical Forums a Facelift and Shift to Niche Sites

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  1. eugbug profile image98
    eugbugposted 2 months ago

    I think I suggested something like this before. Could the topical forums be split up and each category shifted to a niche site with the closest category? E.g Shift "Home" to DenGarden. Then when readers come to the forum for help, relevant articles could be suggested to them?

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    1. Kierstin Gunsberg profile image98
      Kierstin Gunsbergposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      Eugbug, I love this idea.

      Niche forums do well in SERPs from what I've seen. I always come back to BabyCenter and sites like that that offer forums and rank well.

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  2. EricDockett profile image98
    EricDockettposted 2 months ago

    This is something many of us suggested when the niche sites were launched, and I thought it was on HP's to-do list at one point.  I have to assume there are reasons they haven't done it.

    I agree it would be a great idea to have forum communities develop around the niche sites. If it happens, it would be smart if there were a way for people to sign up for the forums without signing up as writers.

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  3. AliciaC profile image98
    AliciaCposted 2 months ago

    I like this idea very much. All of the HubPages forums deal with the topic of writing on HubPages (except for the Freeform Discussion one). The topical forums include a mishmash of different topics. Splitting them up and putting them on the relevant niche sites makes sense to me.

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  4. eugbug profile image98
    eugbugposted 2 months ago

    I find on some of my articles, I'm a one man troubleshooting team answering everyone's queries. On a forum, topic posts could be answered by registered HubPages writers and also forum members who don't necessarily want to write on HubPages. The user interface would also need a facelift so that it functions and looks like typical forums. If the forums took off and became popular, moderating them could be become an issue. Who's responsibility would that be?

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