If you have a Forum feature at your Online Dating Site, you should know how to start and run it in order to incourage your site members to perticipate in discussions.

The most difficult thing is a start up cause it involves a lot of activities of yours to create a contents of forum sections. Here are the questions you should ask yourself and possible solutions you can use to succees:
1. What sections and topics should I add to the forum?
* Make a research on your target auditory’s: interests, ages, preferences, orientation, reasons to date. Make a list of things they will need to be successful when dating (like for example dating tips, first date, manners and so on)

* Use search engines to find the most popular and informative resources to receive news and alerts on Online Dating Industry. It can be RSS feeds, Newsletters, Alerts, hot discussions. You need them to be at the top of the events in Dating world.

* Read the articles and news and make your own opinion. Post this opinion into your forum. You can link to a source but it’s not very good. At your own forum you should place the problem, ask a question, encourage with interesting details like survey you found, latest poll results, funny story and so on.

* When creating new sections try to make a short Introductory post to explain your users what is supposed to be there and what discussions can be started.

2. How do I attract my members to participate in forum and to post there?
* You can send them alerts on new topics in forum to update and make interested. You can use Newsletter module to make it faster.

* When creating new topics ask questions that catch our mind, make us think or tough our feelings. You should go through the answers and post back to support the discussion.

* Update your forum sections. I mean there can be some topics that are not popular at all and you should change or delete them from time to time.

3. How do I manage my Forum when I get more posts?
* there’s an administration panel where you can track posts and delete spammers and people who want to advertise.

* Alert with active users and thank them for posting in Forum.

* Check your forum every day to track the themes discussed, take part in some of them to support. Post new themes as only constant renew of the content will make it live.

Hope all these tips will help you to run Forum at your Dating Site successfully and entertain your users with new ideas. Good luck!