I was just wondering if anyone could help me out. I just opened up a forum yesterday and I'm at a loss for how to get anyone to join it. I'm the only active member, so anytime someone visits, it looks dead... I already bulk-emailed all my old members, but none of them have come back yet. The layout/skin/content are all good, so I don't know what else to do. I took a break from foruming so I don't even know where to advertise anymore and I've lost contact with all my old friends. If anyone could give me some good hints/tips it'd be very much appreciated.
Starting A Successful Forum
- Thread starter Karrit
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What is the forum's niche? That could help us all give better suggestions. Is it the one in your signature?
My admin forum is almost 4 months old. I will soon have 10,000 posts on it, its pagerank 3 on the homepage, 150 members and fairly active maybe even being the largest admin forum powered by SMF 😀 To get it that way, each and every day for about a month, I would come online and post 5 to 10 NEW TOPICS in each section but mainly in the main niche boards. This gave new people and potential members (guests) something to reply to. I also used PostLoop.com and paid for points (you can do it free as well) and that got me a lot of new members (which a lot of them stayed active after I quit using postloop) and posts.
Its all about how much YOU as the owner dedicate yourself to the forum...
My admin forum is almost 4 months old. I will soon have 10,000 posts on it, its pagerank 3 on the homepage, 150 members and fairly active maybe even being the largest admin forum powered by SMF 😀 To get it that way, each and every day for about a month, I would come online and post 5 to 10 NEW TOPICS in each section but mainly in the main niche boards. This gave new people and potential members (guests) something to reply to. I also used PostLoop.com and paid for points (you can do it free as well) and that got me a lot of new members (which a lot of them stayed active after I quit using postloop) and posts.
Its all about how much YOU as the owner dedicate yourself to the forum...
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Did you read that? ^
Did you read that? ^
You don't "start a successful forum"; success comes with hard work, and whilst debatable, it comes with time and money. If you have money, and can boost advertisements and you can boost the chance of getting more active members. You should give members something to work for, ie. a monthly prize.
Right now, I think you should get a top level domain name. Your ZB URL is hard to remember and frankly, gives a bad impression.
Right now, I think you should get a top level domain name. Your ZB URL is hard to remember and frankly, gives a bad impression.
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