The best way for you?

[windsor]

What is the best way of getting members for you?

Mine is just posting on forums and using advertisement forums mainly.

 

[Snorki]

That, and getting an advertisement group on your forums. Saves you the hastle. They help. =]

 

[windsor]

So employ other people to advertise the forum?
Cool.

 

[Snorki]

Volunteer staff not actually payed staff. ._.

 

[windsor]

Yh. Thats what i thought.
I tried once to get a advertiser but no one wanted the job 🙁.
Might give it another go but im the main advertiser for my forum.

Any other ideas?

 

[Snorki]

Well you have to give them something in return.
I GM a maplestory private server. So I was thinking about giving away NX items for their help towards building up my forums.

 

[windsor]

Cool. I would like to do that but what can i give them which doesnt cost me anything?

 

[Snorki]

It depends on what type of people you get on your forums.
Mean people obviously not.
Nice people would volunteer their time.

 

[CyberFreak]

Our best ways are us ourselves promoting the forum on other forums and word of mouth is actually just as effective with people telling other people to sign up on msn or on another forum or via pm on another forum. Also google brings in 700+ visitors a month for us and some do sign up.

 

[Snorki]

How do you know how many hits you get off google?

 

[CyberFreak]

So far this month

Google 776 hits

Last month

Google 882 hits

 

[socrboy24]

I usually just advertise on other forums the best i can hope for the best

 

[Cloverfield]

Google I think. That gets me the most hits.

 

[Cmmcrox]

how do you get a free forum noticed on google though?

 

[zoso]

how can you tell how many hits you're getting from google :O

 

[netsavy006]

I think there is software available that you can add to your site to get traffic information. I think it's from code that you add to the bottom of HTML pages...

 

[CyberFreak]

how do you get a free forum noticed on google though?

Best way is to get a domain and if possible set some meta tags for your forum.

The promote it like mad and the more links back the higher your ranking.

how can you tell how many hits you're getting from google :O

I got my stats from a program callled AW stats that i have in our cpanel from our hosting.

So far this month we now have had 888 hits from Google -D-

 

[zoso]

ah nice one, and what are meta tags?
lol noob-

 

[CyberFreak]

The give a description and keywords of your forum and ar ein the head section of each page. Some hosts whereyou can edit templates you can add the tags in manually and some hosts allow you to just set the tags in the acp. They look like this

<meta name="keywords" content="forum promotion, forumpromotion, free promotion, forum advertising, get more members" />
<meta name="description" content="An active forum where you can promote your forum for free and get tips and support from our community." />

 

[zoso]

hmm that sounds cool

/me looks into it 😀