Forum: Promoting your Forum - Attracting New Members

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How many posts/threads/members do you think a forum needs to be considered large? I think 20,000 members, 500,000 posts and about 25,000-50,000 threads. How about you?

disclaimer: Not all of these points will work for your site - or even for forums. But most of these are good strategy tips, that can be easily employed. How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate traffic? Here's a checklist of 32 items you need to consider....

So what steps do you take to promote your vBulletin communities via social media? I just started a new forum. In fact today was the first time I actively sought new members. I added two tutorials to the site and sent both to my Twitter account. This in turn allowed me to receive 13 new members...

I currently have an off topic but I am not sure how I should I promote the website. I am thinking to start a posting contest and currently paying members to post, but I am not sure what else I could do.

It seems like I pop in here every 6 months now. I do plan on reading just about every thread in this forum, but since I have such great respect for all of the vbulletin webmasters here, I thought maybe you could give me some advice. I got my community going. It has basic vbseo seo, with the...

Ok, I am getting feed backs from my guests that my forum is complex to use and they dont find a way to start or to use. Thats why they dont come, if they register, they dont post. what can I do?? forum

Im looking through so many options such as adbrite and im trying to go away from google and go to yahoo but then again i feel google is better. adbrite is ok for a marketing company but then again who knows. I cant figure out what i could do to make my site roll more inficiantly with more...

Anyone here offer sponsored memberships? How much do you charge? Do you offer any perks to go along with it? What are they?

Well as i went on metroconnections, i thought i would make it into a worldwide site for big city stuff but i guess alot of people took it the wrong way in the past, now im using a social community script, im giving different packages at fair prices and alot of good features and access, anything...

I have a new member that just joined, I am not sure if spam or legit. The site or the user suggests he they can assist in promoting / advertise my forum. The list url (I will just give the domain) is directadvertisement it is a .org The site is legit with members yet I see no direct...

I did take the time along with my staff that we go out and speak with other site owners about doing website affiliations, after being affiliated with only 4 other sites, isn't there a better way to gain more audiences? i know a site that has millions but its impossible by their policies and they...

It has been suggested that I begin to invite sponsors to my forums. Does anyone here have sponsors and, if so, how do you begin to know how much to charge?

When i want a site of me indexed I always put it somewhere on this site: bitsplitter.com/forums I dont know how they do it, but the statistics speak for themselves. Threads: 367,163, Posts: 431,292, Members: 81,560 Visitors (426), WinHTTP Spiders (1), Google Spiders (7), Yeti Spiders (5),...

On another forum I visit, a guy posted a question - "if you had $75 to promote your site, what would you do?" (for this thread I increased it to $200). I posted several in depth replies about how I would use that money to promote my site and then gave real life examples. For this post, I have...

About 25 minutes ago I got my 3,000th subscriber on youtube. What does this mean? People that subscribe to my videos, when they log into youtube, my most recent videos appear on their home page. Its taken me about 16 months to get 3,000 subscribers. This means when I post a video, when...

Some information to get your attention. My youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/survivalistboards <-- wait for the background image to load. As of June 19th at 10:10am central time: Videos Uploaded: 280 Video Views: 1,313,665 Channel Type: Director Channel Views: 50,729

A couple of days ago a question came up (on another forum) about giving prizes to members. There are a lot of forum owners that think about giving gifts away. Frankly, the plans would put a financial strain on the site and maybe the forum owners family. What really cracks me up is when I see a...

Hi I have searched, and googled quite a bit on this one, and still don't have a definite answer. So, I hope someone could shed some light on the subject. Let's say you have banner advertising, but you want to automate it, even if just to some degree, how do you do it? How do you take...

Hello, Besides having your sitemap uploaded go google and yahoo nightly, and signing up on other forums and linking your signature back to your forums, what do you do to promote your forum with the intent to attract guests who are likely to register for your forums, or at the very least increase...

I have a bunch of lurkers that come to my forum...always reading and never posting. I want to know how to lock the forums and threads so that only people with 1 or more posts can see them. Any suggestions?

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce the release of one of my team web developments recent latest product - Instant Community Content An automatic forum posting script. This script is suitable for people trying to kick-start a forum and do not intend to invest lots of time and money into hiring...

Here are some numbers that might get your attention: My youtube videos have been viewed over 1,300,000 times My forum is averaging about 20 new members a day Gets over 1,200,000 page views a month The forum gets about 1,000 post a day, some days as high as 1,200 post A little history:

Hi folks Rarely see any actual forum threads, posted on Social Networking Book Marking sites mainly blogs ( unless they are news only sites ) am I looking in the wrong places ? Anyone had any luck with posting top threads on these sites and if so mind sharing insights or even best links for...

Do you go to extra lengths to promote your site, if so how do you do it? I'll start by telling you some things I do, that have worked for me. I have a myspace page, and that attracts about 50-60 new "friends" a day. I use that to send out bulletins promoting my site. This does help. What...

Hi, I'm planning a contest in my board and the prize will be a travel check. For how long should I run the contest? 1, 2, 3, ... months? How should I rate poster? By the number of posts? Using vBCredits? any other? Thanks nfn

To encourage registration on our community, we have started a contest where users need to gain as many credits as possible to win. Credits for profile fields filling, posting, thread starting, referrals, poll creating and voting... It's a webmaster portal (www.joomla.cc) so we believe being...

I notice quite alot of members here have automotive related sites and figured we could exchange links :confused: ?? If you want, here is my site, http://www.FightRice.com if you need a description i can make one up for ya. Just post in here if you want a link on my site. Thanks

Please allow me to shamelessly introduce my vB (and SMF) plug-in called ICo-Content. I believe it's highly relevant to this forum and I hope your all like it and/or are able to give me some feedback on the way I present this modification. We all know that starting a forum isn't easy. Your topic...

Just curious to know which are the top 3 sites driving the most traffic to your forums apart from search engines. For me.... 1. WebhostingTalk.com (Webhosting discussion forum) 2. Hotscripts.com (I have a listing there) 3. Admin Fusion Forums

I have just started working on my new Site, Evolve-life.com Basically the site is to discuss Activities, Entertainment remember I haven't added a lot of Categories I would love for each and everyone of you to sign up and write your opinion and what ideas you have for the site. Thank you, Tyler

Hi, I have this question and if experienced admins could reply I really appreciate. What's better: .Allow non subscribed members to download files? .Request a subscription to allow download files? What do you think is better? Forum does not need to much promotion, we´re near 50k...

My forum, gamingattic.com, seems to be suffering from a poor member conversion rate. We've been open since September and we've reached 255 members, but we only seem to get 1 or 2 new sign up's a week, and usually, they rarely come back. Here's a direct link to the forum: ...

I was wondering if there is a mod/hack around that would force a new member to make an introduction before being allowed to browse the forum further?

to encourage growth (and hopefully gain sponsors) i am thinking of making a free e-zine for my forum. members or non-members can sign up for the subscription, but only members would be able to view the archieves. but i do not know how to make a button on my forum for people to subscribe. any...

I have ran a few contests on my forum, and mainly have offered paid account status which of course costs nothing... Lately I've been wanting to offer more, and as my forum is member driven and currently breaking even, I do not have the funds to pay for nifty prizes. Any clue how to go about...

Set up a street team on your forum to help you get the word out about it. Setting up a street team is fairly simple. Setting up the Street Team: Get the word out that you want members of your forums to help you promote it. Set up a board specifically for the team to discuss the various ways...

I have been using my new camcorder to take some videos of my town and county and created a You Tube video with my website links. I run a community forum for Lancashire in England and it has helped a great deal. So if you have access to a camcorder, or even just a mobile phone, take some images...

In a recent thread people were talking about what a decent amount of members were in a given time frame. I personally liked the numbers, though the growth of my forum is a bit slower then that. I'm personally content with a new member daily (give or take) and thus far, I'm doing pretty well. I...

Has anyone tried to branch their community out? Let's say your community is all about pets - but you've decided to try to develop a gaming forum to help your community attract gamers... It's just an example, but if you have branched out your community before - how hard was it to do?

So, for all those forum owners out there - how many communities have you managed to buy out and make bigger? I was looking at Sitepoint the other day and they were two communities that were big-board status but I didn't have enough funds to buy them out... So, how many communities have you...

Anybody knows if this mod is available for vb ? I know a guy that uses it on smf forum. It's a a way of thanking your members through paypal, like a donation, only for all the members.

My question exactly. I have just established a post to host system, it's template is clean, the mods are working great and the rules are fair...now how do i market this so that everyone realises...should i buy a Google Adwords account and go that way or should i focus on other marketing? Any...

What methods would you recommend to promote a Teenager based forum? Joining teen forums and posting so that my signatrue is spread around? Advertising on Adwords or YPN? Forming affiliate links with other Teen forums? (I can't see this happening) Other?So hit me with your suggestions for...

How is this? I really hope it works. We need members :(

How would you all recommend i advertise my post to host forums?? Any advice and assistance will be much appreciated... P.S. vBSEO is on the way i have $130 :p

I would like to start some type of contest using the VB referal system, but I am concerned it will be taken advantage of... to test this theory, as admin, I used my own aff link to signup for a new account, and it gave me credit, im sure other users will try to do this in order to inflate their...