Lack of Members on Forum

[Scarface]

Apart from Forumpromtion and few from other forums exchanges, no other activities on my Forum could you suggest a way of attracting more users...

Also, I would appreciate if you could point out few new catergoeis if needed on the forum thanks.

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[Golddisk]

I'm not sure. One thing I will say is it takes time. My site is growing pretty slowly as well. Try inviting some friends from real life and use some physical methods of advertising rather than just internet ads. Make some fliers and put them around in public places (I for example put some for my site around my college campus).

As for added sections, a more developed off-topic section might help. Add categories such as gaming, movies/tv, graphics, etc. Sometimes an active off-topic area can spill over to the rest of the forums.

 

[Reverie]

Since your forum is specifically about youtube I would suggest going to youtube and find beginning vloggers and such to advertise to. Most people won't want to join just a youtube forum, so you're going to have to hunt for those type of people. Maybe find a gaming forum that has people who post videos of their playing and such.

 

[Scarface]

I'm not sure. One thing I will say is it takes time. My site is growing pretty slowly as well. Try inviting some friends from real life and use some physical methods of advertising rather than just internet ads. Make some fliers and put them around in public places (I for example put some for my site around my college campus).

As for added sections, a more developed off-topic section might help. Add categories such as gaming, movies/tv, graphics, etc. Sometimes an active off-topic area can spill over to the rest of the forums.

Thanks for the suggestions, I was thinking of off topic, but due to off-topic usually taking over the rest of the forum, I just created the chilloutlounge. I might make a separate one later, but right now I'm thinking of adding more sections dedicated mainly to YouTube. Just not sure what sections shall I add hence I'm stuck and asking here.<br /><br />-- 10 Mar 2014, 23:47 --<br /><br />

Since your forum is specifically about youtube I would suggest going to youtube and find beginning vloggers and such to advertise to. Most people won't want to join just a youtube forum, so you're going to have to hunt for those type of people. Maybe find a gaming forum that has people who post videos of their playing and such.

Thanks for the suggestion, new bloggers sound good, will try to convince them, other than that i had good response in regards to the forum niche being only YouTube releated its just another thing they didnt sign up hehe.

 

[RH-Calvin]

I can suggest you some good amount of social networking. This can help you make people know more about your forum. Also if you have bucks, you can buy some banner advertisements on good high traffic forums for promotion and attracting more visitors.

 

[Scarface]

I can suggest you some good amount of social networking. This can help you make people know more about your forum. Also if you have bucks, you can buy some banner advertisements on good high traffic forums for promotion and attracting more visitors.

Then I would appreciate that and also I will be doing paid adverting once forum gets few more members. no point investing now if the forum has not enough posts paid user will come and go they wont sign up right?

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Just added the exchange center on my forum, is this good addition, or does not suit the forum!! Awaiting for the kind replies thanks in advance.

P/s addition shown in screenshot its almost at the bottom of the page and it's clearly marked with red arrows!!! To make it easy 4 you spot!<br /><br />-- 13 Mar 2014, 16:20 --<br /><br />What would be the best idea to attract users to sign up and continue on forum as regular members?

 

[Beverly]

My suggestion would be to get onto your forum daily and post new discussions. As the forum owner/admin, your presence should be very well known on each of your subforums. And, you might be concerned that only having discussions from just the owner will be a hindrance, but not necessarily so. On one very big admin forum, the most active forum member is the owner. The same is true for my own forum. If you are not posting there daily and creating lots of new content, then people who click through your link from the various sites you are advertising will not have anything to respond to, so no reason to join.

 

[cyimking]

Advertisements simple. Since your site is a YT channel, I would go on YT and try to find some good YouTube channels to advertise on. It will cost some $$ and it will take some time to find a good one but that's the only way (unless you become famous) to gain members.

 

[hcfwesker]

You launched your forum 3 weeks ago. If you expected booming activity in that short amount of time then get ready for a long 1-2 years. It takes an endless amount of work, weeks/months of promoting, and a ridiculous amount of dedication to get a new site off the ground and established. Your forum actually looks really good for what it's for, the problem is, honestly, what "it's" for. Not too many people are looking for a youtube specific forum. There's MANY, MANY forums out there, that have something I'm interested in, that also provides a section for video discussions. Plus, for me personally, if I want to discuss videos, I'm going to use the comments section on that video.

I'm just giving it to you from my standpoint. If this is what you want to do then, by all means, go for it. Just understand the fact just because you made a forum and posted a few topics it's not going to be an over night success.

Also, and this is just my opinion ... but one of the worst things for me to see on a new/inactive site is the phrase "The #1 site for blah blah blah". It's very unappealing and sends the exact opposite message once viewing the site and content, and not many will take the site seriously.

As for advertising. You need to go to your target audience. ... youtubers. You need to find a creative way to get aspiring young youtubers/LPers to your site looking for anyway to get their profile more popular and noticed, without seeming desperate to get people on your site. Whatever you do, once you get those first few consistently active members that you didn't have to post exchange with or bribe to join, then you'll know when you're on the right track and all that hard work will be worth it in the long run.

 

[Soapbox]

Yes, youtube itself, and combine that with consistent social media activity.
You'll see more activity. How's it going now?