Post by Systems on Oct 30, 2004 9:44:01 GMT -5
How to increase your forums members/activity
Stay on topic: Remember staying on topic is important don’t have matrix buttons and a matrix skin if you have a 50cent forum.
First Impressions: First Impressions are always a good thing. To have a good first Impression you need a nice skin, a banner, and buttons. You can get these at www.ssdesigns.com
Too much for School: Eliminate Spam from the forums quality over quantity. Spam all over the forums will put down the members and you never want to do that. Because some members will leave over Spam and some Spam could offend other members.
Starting Small: You don’t need tons of forums because if you don’t have a lot of members, most people won’t post in a forum with 0 posts in it. So start small and have about 3 categories and 5-7 forums. It will help keep members more active as well. Also if you don’t know what forums and categories that relate to your forum that will keep members active. Visit other active forums that are the same as yours and see what forums keep the members active the most.
Search Engines: Submit your forum to a search engine to increase your members. www.freewebsubmission.com, www.selfsubmit.com, and go here it has lot’s of places to submit your site www.freebielist.com/submission.htm, www.unmelted.com/submission.html, metanetpromotions.com/.
Affiliates: Affiliate with other forums to increase members. If you affiliate make sure the board you affiliate with has more members/ activity. Try asking to affiliate in like introduce yourself area or new members area. Or post a little and then ask to affiliate with the forum by private messaging the owner. Also try to affiliate with a board that has member’s that are interested about the topics that you have in your forum. You should get an affiliate button made for your forum.
Hacks and codes: Refer a friend script is a good one to get for your forum and it’s free. You can pick up counters and more all at www.bravenet.com/. And you should get an affiliate scrollbar.
Events: To keep your member’s active have like battle leagues, tourneys, and battle zones.
Top-sites & Board Directories: If you want top-sites search for them on google. But add your forum to www.forum-search.com/,
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Stay on topic: Remember staying on topic is important don’t have matrix buttons and a matrix skin if you have a 50cent forum.
First Impressions: First Impressions are always a good thing. To have a good first Impression you need a nice skin, a banner, and buttons. You can get these at www.ssdesigns.com
Too much for School: Eliminate Spam from the forums quality over quantity. Spam all over the forums will put down the members and you never want to do that. Because some members will leave over Spam and some Spam could offend other members.
Starting Small: You don’t need tons of forums because if you don’t have a lot of members, most people won’t post in a forum with 0 posts in it. So start small and have about 3 categories and 5-7 forums. It will help keep members more active as well. Also if you don’t know what forums and categories that relate to your forum that will keep members active. Visit other active forums that are the same as yours and see what forums keep the members active the most.
Search Engines: Submit your forum to a search engine to increase your members. www.freewebsubmission.com, www.selfsubmit.com, and go here it has lot’s of places to submit your site www.freebielist.com/submission.htm, www.unmelted.com/submission.html, metanetpromotions.com/.
Affiliates: Affiliate with other forums to increase members. If you affiliate make sure the board you affiliate with has more members/ activity. Try asking to affiliate in like introduce yourself area or new members area. Or post a little and then ask to affiliate with the forum by private messaging the owner. Also try to affiliate with a board that has member’s that are interested about the topics that you have in your forum. You should get an affiliate button made for your forum.
Hacks and codes: Refer a friend script is a good one to get for your forum and it’s free. You can pick up counters and more all at www.bravenet.com/. And you should get an affiliate scrollbar.
Events: To keep your member’s active have like battle leagues, tourneys, and battle zones.
Top-sites & Board Directories: If you want top-sites search for them on google. But add your forum to www.forum-search.com/,
Written By: Me