Promotion for a gaming forum

[TG2012]

Does anyone have any advice for promotion ideas on getting new members geared toward a gaming forum? I personally think that is the hardest thing to do when it comes to a website, is getting new members, or activity on a site... :shrug:

Any suggestion would be great!

Thanks!

 

[jdab]

Ads placed on other sites are good.

 

[adm-atp]

Also, you may try and exchange links with forums similar to
yours (though they may be reluctant to do so, if they see you
as competition).

 

[TG2012]

Yes and I think gaming communities would be reluctant on link exchanging. Also I don't have much content. I've been working on it but it's kind of difficult for me since it's a gaming forum. So I don't think the link exchange would be a good idea for right now.

 

[XcapeX]

Ads placed on other sites are good.

On other gaming sites would be even better!

 

[TG2012]

Ads placed on other sites are good.

On other gaming sites would be even better!

How would I go about doing that? Do you mean by adding it in my signature on other gaming sites? Because I don't think usually gaming sites let you "advertise" your gaming site. Right?

 

[jdab]

Not neccessarily with a signature, and actual ad. I'm selling ads on my gaming blog.

 

[XcapeX]

Ads placed on other sites are good.

On other gaming sites would be even better!

How would I go about doing that? Do you mean by adding it in my signature on other gaming sites? Because I don't think usually gaming sites let you "advertise" your gaming site. Right?

There are plenty of gaming forums that would sell you an ad space. Make sure that they receive traffic and daily posts though.

 

[Hissae2]

Join similar communities and advertise there 🙂 Just post as a member with the link in your signature, people will join 😉

 

[Darthmaul]

Gaming forums are so easy to do competitions for! Do a competition for ms points, maybe a CoD elite premium membership, etc. So easy to find prizes 😛

 

[TG2012]

Thanks guys for the good ideas! I like them!

 

[tronik]

I'm currently promoting my game development forum, and I have successfully built a forum with over 1000 posts in another niche. Anyways, I have a few tips for you.

#1. Join Postloop
#2. Subscribe to forums in their gaming section(and other sections)
#3. Add signature links when possible.
#4. Get some FP cash and buy some ads, and/or posting packages.
#5. Create new topics and posts on your own forum everyday.

 

[Patrick S.]

I find I get more visitors playing a game chatting with the people and showing them the link to my site(when they ask for it) and in CS using a spray ad.
Else try getting adwords coupon and using that.
Also above way is good 🙂

 

[Demon_skeith]

Advertising on anime boards is the next to best place to ad a game forum, I've gotten a few good members from that.

 

[froggyboy604]

You can alco post on GameTrailers creativity section which is owned by SpikeTV forum at http://forums.gametrailers.com/forum/creativity/18

GT is probably one of the biggest general gaming forums online with 1,337,402 members.

 

[Naiwen]

I'd join because I love gaming, but yeah, I'd recommend to make some post exchanges with members interested in gaming on FP.

 

[Demon_skeith]

You can alco post on GameTrailers creativity section which is owned by SpikeTV forum at http://forums.gametrailers.com/forum/creativity/18

GT is probably one of the biggest general gaming forums online with 1,337,402 members.

I looked at their rules, they don't allow advertising in their sigs. specially gaming related websites.

 

[Naiwen]

You can alco post on GameTrailers creativity section which is owned by SpikeTV forum at http://forums.gametrailers.com/forum/creativity/18

GT is probably one of the biggest general gaming forums online with 1,337,402 members.

I looked at their rules, they don't allow advertising in their sigs. specially gaming related websites.

thats gonna suck though for smaller gaming communities.

 

[froggyboy604]

You can alco post on GameTrailers creativity section which is owned by SpikeTV forum at http://forums.gametrailers.com/forum/creativity/18

GT is probably one of the biggest general gaming forums online with 1,337,402 members.

I looked at their rules, they don't allow advertising in their sigs. specially gaming related websites.

I think you can still post a topic in their creativity section of the forum. In the past, I advertised a few computer related websites in the creativity section, and never got banned.

 

[Demon_skeith]

I did notice you can advertise youtube and FB pages. So one could advertise their forum's social page and hope the person follows all the way through.