We can not deny the fact, that a forum alongside with your blog has enormous value to convert your visitors to members. Free Forum Softwares can be used for creating an active community for Blog or Website. Here are some of the best free Forum Softwares that can you choose from.
Why Free Forum Softwares ?
We have deliberately listed the Free Forum Softwares over the paid ones. There are reasons behind choosing free forum softwares over the premium ones :
Forums are relatively difficult to manage and administer than the blogs. Free Forum Softwares needs no investment, if you think you can not invest time behind the forum part, you can easily close it without the headache of bad investment. Once you are satisfied with any of these free forum softwares, you can think to shift to premium options.
In most cases, the blog part is most SEO optimized and higher earner than the forum part. So in terms of Return of Investment, Free Forum Softwares although might have less room for SEO, it can be a better choice.
Some premium Forum Softwares are very costly, free forum softwares are good choice for high traffic but low earning or non earning blogs or forums.
Possibly the best application of these free forum softwares are non profit websites and small to medium business as a part of customer care.
List of Free Forum Softwares
These is a small list of the free forum softwares, obviously there are many free forum softwares those has not been listed here. If you want to run a non profit forum but can not afford the cost of hosting, you can contact us for free hosting with any of these free forum softwares.
Simple Machines Forum – This free forum software is based on PHP and needs LAMP server to run. Simple Machines Forum has excellent free skins.
phpBB – This is also a PHP based forum software. phpBB is a widely used forum software.
bbPress – Both bbPress and BuddyPress are developed by Automattic – the brand behind WordPress.
Other mentionable free forum softwares are –
- Vanilla Forum – Best for question answer or support type forum.
- Phorum
Look for the features and License model while choosing these free forum softwares.
