CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
What do you think are the least useful promotion methods and sites?
Least useful promotion methods
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Spamming. If people spam then nobody will visit their forum. I feel you need to build up a reputation with interesting posts before you post your forum. If people see you posting intresting stuff - they'll join the forum to see more of it...
nakedalien
Reputable
I must agree with the above
posting an ad, and never returning to that forum
it just shows the community you visited, you have no interests in their community, so why should they get involved with yours, no matter how promising the forum is.
it just shows the community you visited, you have no interests in their community, so why should they get involved with yours, no matter how promising the forum is.
IvanGonzalez
New Arrival
Hm, really only spam? Any other white methods?
Uncle Kenny
Acquaintance
Going on other people's forums and PMing members with advertisements. This is just plain aggravating for the members and the staff that have to deal with you stealing away their members and your site gains a negative reputation. Trust me, DON'T advertise through PMs.
Uncle Kenny said:
Completely agree with this. It's happened fairly often here in the past too ~neutral~
On top of that, I would say sending out "monthly newsletters" are very aggravating for members. There isn't a lot worse than opening your Emails to find your inbox full of messages such as:
"Come on down to MyForum, kick back, have a coffee, relax and unwind. We now have 1,000,000 posts, 4 members and a load of spam. Please welcome our new promotion team: Joe, Bloggs, and Dave.
This month we'll be holding abig post bonanza, come along and check it out. It will be awesome and you can win a super cool domain name!".
They go straight through me.
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
I don't mind worthwhile announcements via email like big achievements but not for small announcements. We haven't sent out a mass email for this forum for about a year now. In terms of other advertising forums that is very good.
Uncle Kenny said:
Actually, I find this method very helpful. It got me over 600+ members on Fratal.org, and over 200 members on DarkFallForum.net
Sure, it may give your site a bad reputation, but for what, really? For advertising via PM? What harm could that be? "Don't go to that shitty forum, they PM advertise!!" Now obviously, you don't want to be constantly PM advertising on every forum you go to. Only ones that are related to your forum.
Uncle Kenny
Acquaintance
Yeah, we did it too and got a lot of members but the thing is that it's more of a respect thing. If anyone did that on my site I would ban them so I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite and do it anywhere else.
Watch Me Sink
Madly Diligent
To tell you the truth, I have spent the most time on promotional forums, and yet have gotten very few members from them. I have gotten tons from Myspace, DeviantART, and Youtube and yet I have put very little time into those methods.
DudeThatsErin
Paragon
Spamming your website everywhere. Joining forums for the sole purpose of advertising either in your signature or in the promotion sections.
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Deleted member 49125
I will agree with others for Spamming & joining just to promote your forum. I used to have a rule against that when I first started as I had several members join ONLY to promote. They never came back. Now, I'm more lax & just hope they return the favor in promotion.
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