Too Much Guests.

[Uphoreka]

Is it bad having 18 guests online in a forum?

What's the highest amount of guests in your forum?

 

[Kaadu554]

well i did have 33 guests online (none that registered)
I'd say its a good thing to have as many guests viewing your forum because it shows others that its very interesting

 

[Antarctic]

There's nothing at all wrong with having guests on a forum, i sometimes get thousands.

 

[David]

For forums, I have seen it reached 80, for websites, I have seen it go up to 40, but they were relatively new.

 

[Uphoreka]

Thanks guys. I was worry for a second.

 

[Bossanova]

Bear in mind that some (and/or most) of those guests are search engine bots.

 

[VGFreak877]

At most I've had between 10 and 15 guests browsing my forums -- mostly bots though. On a regular basis, I see about 5 or 6 guests browsing the forums. Any extra views to your forum is good. 🙂

 

[Cloverfield]

Guests are a good thing. Especially when trying to earn revenue from your forum as you need as many guests as possible. As for my most guests?...

Most users ever online was 4,244, 23-03-2008 at 06:58 AM.

 

[birdy]

Yes nothing to worry about its all traffic I have up to 200 ish - currently todays stats are:

In total there were 153 users online :: 48 registered, 6 bots and 99 guests

 

[Nitro]

Most I had online was 133.

But a downfall to having many guests online is the usage of resources.

Depending on your host, having many guests online could cause your site to go down. But these numbers would usually have to be very high.

 

[el canadiano]

The most I ever got in one forum at a time was 933. How did I get it? I advertised on bux.to 😛.

 

[Leo Ghost]

At one point I had a forum and was trying to get a friend to join. He claimed the lack of traffic (at that point we only had a few dedicated members) put him off. I tossed a few thousand guests to the site from one of those Traffic Exchanges, all at once 😛

Guests are only a negative thing if you have an extremely small hosting package and they are using up your monthly bandwidth. Otherwise they are only positive.

 

[Acorn]

Having a lot of guests doesn't necessarily mean the forum will gain a lot of members. The guests have to like what they see when they get there.

but there's no harm in just letting'em have a peek. Remember it will also count as a hit on places like forum topsite 🙂

 

[Fergal]

They say that guests click on more ads than members, because the members are more involved with the content on the site. So lots of guests could be good for your forum revenue.

Leo Ghost, be careful with those traffic exchanges, if you have ads from an ad network on your site. Some of them don't allow their ads to be shown on sites with that kind of traffic, and may ban your site.

 

[Impulse]

A lot of guests isn't the problem, it's getting them to register that is.

 

[ToYz.CoMiX]

I like having guests, it shows me whether I've been doing a good job promoting or not. If I see I have less guests in the past 24 hours than usual, I know I'm not promoting enough. I just wish the guests would take the jump and register.

I advertised on bux.to 😛.

I heard that's just a scam.

 

[_20_]

Is it bad having 18 guests online in a forum?

lol.

Ubuntu forums:

Currently Active Users: 13086 (736 members and 12055 guests and 295 Spiders)

 

[Killswitch]

My forum is almost 8 months old and we can go from having 5 guest to around 50 (we don't use any form of SEO). I've just been trying to create as many backlinks as possible for now until I find some more effective ways.

 

[DarkKnight]

I run a Nintendo community on a free service host.
I commonly get 8 to 10 guests in a 2 hour period.
I recently found out that one in particular that has been a constant visitor to my site's forums is most likely a bot.

Still, being able to see that guest's IP address and knowing that they will not register really pisses me off....
But bots don't register.

Guests, and even bots can be good for a website's traffic.
In some ways, they can be more useful than an active member, but you've gotta be careful about where the line is between them.

Get traffic, and member activity will follow.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

I've had over 200 on once for a 15 minute threshold. They usually come in waves.