Promote my new fourm

[photochat]

Hi
I was wondering how I can go about about promoting my new forum for free I really want this to take off the ground but without new members to add topics and post on the forum the forum will just die.

www.thephotochat.co.uk

 

[Gh0st4unt3r]

Promoting forums do take time and effort, i would say get involved with niched websites that are similar to yours, gain relationships and see if your ideas sparks interest with others.

Also see if you can get backlinks and improve offsite / onsite SEO

share your knowledge that others will find interesting are all factors that will gain good reputation and possible people to follow your site and interests too.

theres more to it than this but this is a few of the basics 🙂

also try social media
Twitter
Facebook
Stumbleupon
and others.

 

[Page]

1. Do posting exchanges with other forum owners, And keep the content going is the key
2. Affiliate Exchanges is also good to consider doing
3. Pay members with your FP cash to do things like posts or whatnot or get twitter followers
4. Enter FP giveaways and whatnot, And if you win you get ad slots, FP cash or free services
5. Check out postloop 🙂
6. All content on your site use your RSS feed and get them out there to social Media
7. SEO work, start doing it

 

[johnthan]

You have members and I think they active.
As you are not going to pay for advertisements, you need time.

You can post the guide to take pictures and edit and some free pictures to download. And these articles can be posted on facebook groups. You can attract more photographers/designers/like minded people on social sites.

Do not forget to post on twitter. You can also get instagram and pinterest.
I have pinterest account and do not how people got me and they follow.

All these really took me days. I do not promote facebook pages, now after a year, people get my pages. I am amazed after a year now I get likes and follow without promoting. Just keep posting good words.

 

[Corzhens]

People join forums for the relevance of the theme. I am a dog lover so maybe I would join a forum about dogs or pets or animals. I am not much into sports and I will not join a forum on mixed martial arts. My point is the target prospect. You have to define it first before you can plan on how to attract such prospects.

 

[Rohan]

Hi
I was wondering how I can go about about promoting my new forum for free I really want this to take off the ground but without new members to add topics and post on the forum the forum will just die.

I think the people above have given the appropriate advice, but I just wanted to shed light on the bold in your post.

I think your forum is too wide for member contributions to have an effect. You have at least 17 sections on the main page for a total of 12 active members (This is a number I have assumed upon first viewing of your forum). Those 12 members wouldn't be able to keep all 17 of those sections active. It is advised that you cut down the amount of sections by merging them. Only once your member activity rises, should you consider adding more sections.

 

[photochat]

Hi
I was wondering how I can go about about promoting my new forum for free I really want this to take off the ground but without new members to add topics and post on the forum the forum will just die.

I think the people above have given the appropriate advice, but I just wanted to shed light on the bold in your post.

I think your forum is too wide for member contributions to have an effect. You have at least 17 sections on the main page for a total of 12 active members (This is a number I have assumed upon first viewing of your forum). Those 12 members wouldn't be able to keep all 17 of those sections active. It is advised that you cut down the amount of sections by merging them. Only once your member activity rises, should you consider adding more sections.

Hi i am trying to merge them into the sections of the forum as sub folders i have managed to do a few so far any in put would be great thanks.

I am taken on board everyone here is saying.

 

[Jason76]

On social media, I try to link to interesting posts on my forums. That's gotten some visitors. However, only the drumming one has gotten boatloads of visitors that way.

 

[Khanh Nguyen Duy]

Hi
I was wondering how I can go about about promoting my new forum for free I really want this to take off the ground but without new members to add topics and post on the forum the forum will just die.

www.thephotochat.co.uk

if free you should learn seo