katzer said:
I am going to sound hard on you buddy, but it is nothing more than I told another guy here :
#1 - drop that " I believe my boards are not the best, and they need to be improved" attitude. Get spunky and give it your all and always think before you do any haste in manner.
Good gosh man....I am in a situation that we went from 7000 members and dropped like a rock but you dont see me crying and posting the board like a maniac on prozac. And a comeback can be harder I tell you when a board gets dead but we are doing it with a little restructuring.
Well, you can't put in your best work if you're new to running an online community. Your situation sucks because you probably made some bad decisions, it can happen to anyone. Let me guess, you lost some of your google rankings? 7k members and dropping like its nothin is obviously something that could of been prevented.
Your forum management skills need some improvements and you need a way better work ethic. Write the best quality content and never look back. The internet is anyone's playground, ever heard of going viral and never spent a time on advertising? I have because I'm a viral marketer, social media expert and an seo expert. Who are you to tell the op to change his attitude? You just said quite clearly that your forum dropped even though you had 7k members.
----Your really not using search with a name likes when I say.... Telenet..wow! I know a guy in my area who has been tapped in that area for years and all he uses is FB and its because he uses Telenet actually,,, Think about that/your name and tap that demographic a bit. Old school front end name brand may be at your advantage today. I do not know.
----Your board is sparse in nature. What would make a person join to have fun. I have fun messing here but they have hit the market despite sites like wj that are the standard.
A name doesn't really matter, it's your content that matters. I guess you're forgetting about Wikipedia, google, and yahoo, right?
My forum is called Virtual pet list, but we cover more than just virtual pets, so please tell me "What's in a name", because I've been running the most successful, active gaming community in my entire industry since 2011. There's not a site that out ranks my site for a lot of top keywords on Google, so before you tell a new owner what to do, you should think before you post. Especially since you're not a well experienced forum owner, however, I am.
As a guy who is in attempt to remarket the brand we have.......all of us are trying to regroup the site...and thats tough being online 24/7 dealing with many mods in different time zones and all that jazz.
I wanna wring every owners neck when they say "Im a dead site",,,or "I can't make it today"...I really do. Plug forward and keep up the flame as us metal heads say.
Remarket your brand, improve it, make it better, but be humbled about it. There's no flame on a new community, you have to spark that flame by publishing quality, relevant and in depth content. Where's your flame at for your online community? Oh, your 7k members killed all of your site's flame.
Also, as long as the forum's owner is always chatting with his/her members, the flame can actually remain alive and flourishing for many years. Be personal and treat your members with nothin but the uttermost respect, and they'll always support your community. Through thick and thin.
New unique content is the key to making a forum grow. Without it, you won't go anywhere.
