How to Add Forums to a Website

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Forums are useful to communicate with your site visitors and helps to solve problems and generate traffic out of it. This article will show you how to add forums to website

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Embeddable Forums

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    Set up the forum on a forum service providers website (Google for it and select one you like)
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    (use a separate page for forum)
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Using Forum Scripts

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      Things You'll Need

      • Forum Service provider account. (First method).
      • HTML embed code. (First method.)
      • Forum script. (Second method).
      • One click script installer. (Second method).
      • Admin access to hosting control panel.
      • Your own website.

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