Developing Content for your Forum

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When I owned a forum (some six or seven years ago), I found that never ending threads worked best. Those types that go way off topic. The forum members really enjoyed being able to free-range with a chat. And, at the end of the day, all that content was good for on page SEO, way more so than adding a chat-box on site. This might not be the typical 'tutorials' that people are searching online, but it can produce good quality content if you are sure to steer the conversation in the direction (or topic) you want it to go to.