Learn To Create A Google Group Forum

There are many ways to improve your blogging experiences and the more experiences you got, the more sharing skill you got. you can choose a strategy to share your experience to the world. You can choose by creating a blog and share them on it or join a social media then share your experiences with them but in this tutorial, I will share the another way to share your experiences through Google Web Forum.

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What is Google Group Web Forum?

Google Web Forum is a question and answers (Q&A) forum and it is where members can use this interface to primarily answer the question of other group members. The group is similar to other online web forums because it allows members to join and manage the workflow state of topics within the group by a collaborative inbox.

Advantages of Google Groups Web Forum

You will never imagine that Google Forum has many advantages for your works. It will provide you many helpful major keys to help your blog members, promote your products and to share your experiences through it. These below are some advantages from Google forum.

• Q&A Forum: Provide you a method to answer your blog members or customers questions.
• Email List: You will get more and more email list from your group participants. 
• Free Web Hosting: It is a difference way from other web forums that motivate you to buy a web hosting but Google Group is free of charge.
• Create For Free: It is absolutely free of charge for creating a Google group.
• Best Flexibility Forum: The web forum has a great option that allows you to customize to a way you need.

How to Create A Google Group Web Forum?

In this article will explain you to create a Google Group Forum. So now you need to have a Gmail account that you can sign up one for free. However, those who ready have one you now can start to create a Google group as the following steps.

Step 1: Go directly to Google Groups. Then click on "Create Group" on the navigation menu that shown in the attached picture below.

Step 2: You got a form after click creates group button in Step 1, then you need to fill up details about your new group. Just to an idea about filling up a form, following the explanation below.

• Group Name: Here is a text area where you can give a group name that you prefer one. 
• Group Email Address: This is a special option that you need to think what email address you would like to provide to this group as well as, it will auto generate to your blog URL. 
• Group Description: In this text area you need to give a group description and explain the purpose that you create this group.
• Group's Primary Language: Choose one of your group language and all of us using English (United State), a standard language.
• Group Type: Make a decision to choose one group type in this function because there is few different type of groups. Those groups are Email List, Web Forum, and Q&A Forum. Therefore, I suggest you choose "Web Forum". 

Now once everything is done, please click on "Create" button that present on the top of the page. Then you will get a navigation message about your success.

Now just keep in mind that you got a Google Web Forum that you can invite people to join and share new things together.

Add Google Group Forum to Blogger Blog

Now it is a time to add a Google Group Forum to Blogger Blog. You will be easy to do in this step. What you have to do next is: Create a Blogger Blog Page. Consider this below guide to creating a blogger page.

You have to log in your blogger blog account. And on the dashboard click Pages > New Page >. Now between Compose and HTML, just click on "HTML" then copy the special code below and paste in your  new blogger page and then press "Publish" button.

<iframe frameborder="0" height="800px" id="forum_embed" scrolling="yes" src="javascript:void(0)" width="100%">
<br />
</iframe>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.getElementById("forum_embed").src =
        "https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=forum/best-google-web-forum" +
        "&showsearch=true&showpopout=false&parenturl=" + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
</script>

Now in the last step, please do not forget to replace "best-google-web-forum" to your personal one that you fill up in the Google Email Address. it would come from "best-google-web-forum@googlegroups.com".

Add Google Forum to WordPress Website

To add Google Web Forum is not a difficult thing. You need to create one Page by following this tip.

Now you log in to your WordPress website. On the dashboard click Pages > Add New > Text then copy above special code and page in your text area of the page. Now when you are ready just click "Publish" button. Therefore, do not forget to replace your "best-google-web-forum" to your personal one.

Finally, you can add Group Web Forum on you blog and Website. I hope you can look after it and keep sharing it and invite friends, members to join.