Should I add a Blog to my forum?

[Alex]

Do you think it is a good idea to add a blog to a forum? Why or why not?

Please, share with us your thoughts on this subject.

 

[Busybee]

Having a Blog in your forum is an added advantage. But make sure to keep it in a separate section. Your blog shouldn't disturb your forum discussion. And your blog should share your forums theme to make it useful for the members. Posting irrelevant blogs on the website would be annoying to your members. Post blogs that would add value to your forum members. For example, if you run a technical forum, only post technical blogs don't put blogs about traveling and other irrelevant topics.

 

[HK World]

It completely depends on your aim behind adding your blog to your forum because both are quite different things. Blogs are where you share your knowledge on different topics. On the other hand, a forum is all about discussion/debates to engage with your subscribers as well as to build a social community. So, I would recommend keeping your forum and blog separately.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I think that it can be nice for the longer topics and articles that are being created on teh forum because this way you are able to separate the two and at the same time you can still have people engage in both with minimal change to them as well.

 

[Kane]

I am running three forums and I have a blog section on two forums. I created blogs in a hope to get traffic through search engines as blogs have better chance of getting search trffic compared to forum post. Sadly, my blogs have not helped me much.