Hi, I get traffic only for very new post, but I have too few members yet and would need to boost the site somehow. Please advise!
For traffic you can try promoting (not spamming) your forum on signatures of other forums that are related. You can post comments on related blogs, do link exchanges, etc To enhance post, one important thing is that you, yourself, are active on your forum. After that, make posts in the form of questions or start debates to create conversations, you can try also doing posting or referral contests. Also, as you get new members, try sending out regular newsletters (make the newsletter interesting and worth sending out), to remind your members of visiting your forum...
Like said, you can do the signature in othr forums. what is the topic of your forum i may be able to help further
Does your company or sites send out newsletters? Include it there, and add a link as part of your signature.
You can try post exchange or join forum-adminstration related forums to learn more about marketing techniques that are specified to forums. Hope that helps.
As sbongo said, Post Exchanges are great. Post in trade forum saying your willing to do a 5:5, 10:10: 25:25 or whatever post ratio. That means you'll post on their forums 5 times if they post on yours 5 times. Ive done this for forums and it works great.
There are services you can get that acutally have people post for you. This gives you a good jump start.
yep these are all great techniques. you should try as kmayen suggestion in using a forum boosting service to get your started off. It is also good to ask all of your friends and family help you to get started. contests, offering something free like an ebook or maybe even offering a free module that you created (something that ppl want for one or all of your free scripts that you discuss). I definitely think going to other related forums and becoming active in their communities will get you a lot of new members. Also you can advertise on those related boards or possibly even do a cross promotion with related boards. there are a lot of things you can do but if you do them yourself it will take time. try advertising, forum boost and some seo. ;-) good luck. we are all doing the same thing with our forums & sites.
Well, what I am surprised by is the extreme manner of internet behaviour - although I get some constant traffice (not that much), it there are new posts in the forum, the traffic goes up 10 times...
I’ve just created a forum and I’m having the same trouble. What I started doing is email people with similar interest and telling them about my site. These people can either be found on forums or blogs. Tnen tell them to advertise there blogs or opinions... it works, but requires allot of effort
just a note, I've found that the posting services you pay for are expensive for the little result they will give a forum. just my experience with them that is
Yup, both is what I also think. If your niche is dead, no boosts will help you. Designing an interesting forum is really tricky...
In any way the first thing you have to do in a forum site, is to make it look active. That means that you need posts. It doesn't matter if you pay for post, trade, or make the posts by dummy accounts on your forum, but this is the first thing to do. After that you can try promote your forum to relevant forums. Is the best converting way to promote a forum (at least it works for me very well...)
I just ran accrost a mod called email digest for the phpbb forum. It emails a summary of new posts in a weekly news letter to your members. Might be a good way to get older members interested again and get some more traffic.
You can offer incentives for members to post i.e.) The most posts after a given date will earn them a prize.