My site has been up for about three months now, and has yet to have gotten a lot of registrations- and my main idea that it isn't is that I am not doing enough SEO and not enough advertising, so what are some tips that I can do for SEO and good advertising that will help a forum in my niche? Thanks!
Here's the issue, Irviding - there are thousands upon tthousands of intellectual debate forums out there. Many have hundreds of members, are extremely active, and are already outstandingly enjoyable to participate in. If your forum does not offer any unique and original features or policies, there is no incentive to join. Advertising will only get you so far if community members are happy where they are. I see your forum already has an outstanding design, but I suggest you continue brainstorming with your team until you come up with something more that will differentiate Debate Place from the thousands of other debate forums out there. Be different! Everyone loves originality. 🙂
There are many, many, many general discussion forums out there. In your place, I would attempt coming up with a specific niche that will draw in more members than a "simply random" community. I, for one, do not randomly select the forums I join and participate in. Once you have narrowed down the focus of your community, attempt forming affiliations with larger sites. For instance, if I create a forum about The Sims 2, I'll want to affiliate with a large EA Games fan community.
My staff and I are sort of stuck, what can we do to make our debate forum differ from other sites? I really just can't think of something.. anyone have an idea?
And what would be a good site to affiliate a debate forum with, perhaps a news discussion site?
This forum looks like it's dying - bad for them, good for you. Perhaps many once-active members are searching for a new discussion forum to participate in. In your shoes, I would attempt forming an affiliation with newsforum.
