Programming Forums said:
Thanks guys! I am indeed enjoying my time here. I found this awesome place on Google, and hope that I can use it to get some active members (not to just pay for posts, but I mean to actually recruit members who plan on being active). I am just a little upset because I had one member who REALLY active, and he was the conversation starter, and he recently had me lock his account.
Hey..
There is nothing wrong with paying for post or trading posts if your starting up 7 wanting your forum to look more active & content rich, but for more members which stay active on your forum in return for nothing, all i can say would be Advertise.
This forum offers some great ways to get your forum noticed by other Forum Promotion members..
Use any of these services to help get more members..
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Promotion Directory
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Signature Advertising
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Text Advertising
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Bubble Ads
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Featured Forum
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Auction House
To use the above services you'll have to earn some
FP Cash by being active on This Forum.
For getting more visitors/members from other places on the net, i would say doing SEO work on your site would be the best bet. You could use PPC advertising such as Google Adwords & Facebook Ads, but personally i think they are to expensive. Put some effort into building one-way back-links that are Not "nofollow" to your site. Links on forums, blogs, bookmarking sites are good. Good descriptions & articles with your forums link is good. Whatever Keyword/Phrase your want to target, put that as the Text for your link. The "Keyword/Phrase" is what you want people to find your website under when they search t in google, yahoo or other search engines.
Do on-site SEO work also. The above link-building will help your forum, but search engines also look into the content on your website. New, on-topic content helps. Check keyword density, etc..
