Guests? How do you get them to stay?

[BtR_Wolf]

Well, I've been rather busy today and have only been popping on, but, looking at my forum details, we've had 24 members online. Given the fact we only have 12 members, this meant we had at a minimum, 13 guests online. (I wasn't on at the time) But none have chosen to register, as the memberlist remains at 12.

As a question, what do you guys do to get guests to stay? Are there any tried and tested tricks, or is it just down the pure luck?

 

[AnAccount]

Sometimes it can be down to pure luck. I've joined successful forums that don't even have contest, but that's just me as I'm not picky about features when it comes to forums. I would just keep hitting it hard with promoting and see what comes out of it from there. Maybe you could hold a contest or something?

 

[Jonathan]

The guests you are seeing are mostly bots. I have a big register now message though 😀

 

[AnAccount]

The guests you are seeing are mostly bots. I have a big register now message though 😀

A big turnoff, Jonathan. I refuse to join message boards, no matter how good they look, where they have stuff like that practically thrown at you. No matter how badly I needed activity, I would never go to that extreme.

 

[Nitro]

I try to provide as much incentives as I can for people who choose to be members. But sometimes they stay and sometimes they go.

Things like contests can help though.

 

[BtR_Wolf]

We have ideas for contests, so that may be pushed through quickly. We're getting good traffic, methinks, so hopefully more will join.

Thanks for the advice, guys.

 

[Jonathan]

The guests you are seeing are mostly bots. I have a big register now message though 😀

A big turnoff, Jonathan. I refuse to join message boards, no matter how good they look, where they have stuff like that practically thrown at you. No matter how badly I needed activity, I would never go to that extreme.

I think people who are new to forums need to be told about the benefits of registration etc to entice them

 

[AnAccount]

The guests you are seeing are mostly bots. I have a big register now message though 😀

A big turnoff, Jonathan. I refuse to join message boards, no matter how good they look, where they have stuff like that practically thrown at you. No matter how badly I needed activity, I would never go to that extreme.

I think people who are new to forums need to be told about the benefits of registration etc to entice them

I think I was thinking of those pop-up thingys like Forumotion ran sites have 😳 I think I may have read your message wrong, Jonathan. Sorry about that. The messages I don't mind, it's the one with the stupid pop-up box like Forumotion sites have that I hate.

 

[TheIlluminative]

"Join to remove the ads" 😛 it works pretty well.

 

[BtR_Wolf]

"Join to remove the ads" 😛 it works pretty well.

No idea how we do that. :L

 

[juststeven]

To get guests to say make join today and get....
This really helps and makes guests think well I might as well join now!

 

[Footyaddict]

You should get a proper domain name, your current one is hard to remember without bookmarking or looking through your history to get back to.

 

[BtR_Wolf]

Thanks a lot for the advice. We are looking into it right now. 🙂