How do you get members to register on your forum?

[JayJACKEL!]

Come on guys,
Lets help each other!

What are good techniques to getting new members?

 

[22_22]

Update the forum regularly with competitions, etc.. 😉

 

[Tecca]

Have content (resources to download, or something more unique if possible). I have a forum that gets roughly 7 registrations a day with no advertising at all, simply because we have a lot of content to offer people.

 

[SocialAdmin]

Fresh content. Make sure you post regularly, make sure posts are interesting and also make sure they are unique.
Create a few dummy accounts initially but be sure to phase them out as members start coming.

Also do some good SEO work and make sure you get the word out.

 

[Saruman]

Try and pick a category for you site that leans towards a crowd who would want to visit often, I've had generic boards, and they've taken off, but have done so the slowest.

 

[Marc]

Have great content ( that not much forums offer ) on your forum and leave the visitor wanting more, 😉

Example(s) - They might want to ask questions, request services, etc...

 

[Vekseid]

I get about half of my membership through search engine results. The rest came mostly via personal recruitment by myself or a few others.

 

[Saruman]

Yes, many of your long time members, will joing early on


😎

 

[MVP]

Youtube - Members

Twitter - traffic

 

[XcapeX]

I current don't have a forum, yet, but if I were to, the best way would be probably linkreferral or something.

 

[Marc]

Youtube - Members

Twitter - traffic

It's best to focus on Search Engine Optimization because after you've finished your seo work, a lot of visitors would be visiting your forum from search engines & you wouldn't have to work a lot when advertising, 😉

I current don't have a forum, yet, but if I were to, the best way would be probably linkreferral or something.

LinkReferral really works. I've gotten two members from using it.

One was a member that didn't post at all and the other one just advertised in the wrong section of the forums and never visited again, :roll: What more was I expecting, lol.

 

[Hiheels]

Does anyone have any experience of webrings?
I've looked at them, although not in tremendous depth because we're difficult to categorise - we're a forum/question and answer site.

 

[22_22]

Have plenty of off-topic boards in case users don't like your forums genre. 🙂

 

[Acorn]

If you start out specialised, in a way no other forum is in your genre that might be a way to compel people to join if there is enough interest in that subgenre. Try to offer something that no other forum does.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Gain peoples interest, post adverts on other sites, create interesting discussions within your community. I find placing myself in a visitor's place viewing my forum is a great place to start in seeing whether or not I would register an account.

 

[David]

For starters, you have failed in terms of promoting your website, with all due respect. I would suggest you fill in your profile and adding a signature. Usually, having a username with your site link is a major turn off and people may disregard you.