Hello Friends, I started my forum in 1st Jan 2008. But there are only 16 members. Only 2-3 of them post in forum (some times). Very few of them reply on topics. No one participate in polls. Even I sended emails to all members about poll. I started shoutbox but nothing happend. I started a game (Post your desktop). No one replied. Please review my forum and give me suggestions how can I increase no of members in forum and motivate them to write post in forum I will be very happy if you register and post new threads/post reply . My forum address is http://forum.vibgyorlife.com
In my opinion you need to start talking about the different celebrities and gossip going around. Most of you forum is filled with photo of celebrities. If you want members to start talking start writing stuff interesting topics and asking questions about celebrities, etc.
That's only 3 months and you already got members, not bad at all. As far as getting new people, post your own comments and threads to make sure google picks them up so that you can get SE visitors. I wouldn't worry about new posters yet, for now add content. I just started a new forum about a week ago, I spent about 2 days with SEO optimizations on the templates and title, metas, etc and have been posting about 3-4 rather lengthy posts per day. I already have 15 pages listed in google and even though I now appear on page 6-9 for my keywords I already have had some visitors. As far as suggestions, review your forum with an SEO eye and keep adding content. Web sites, be they forums, blogs or whatever need content, so keep that comming and you will do fine. Also forget about advertising for now, drop all the adbrite stuff and let people see that the site is for content and not yet another MFA.
You may want to buy some traffic or think about adds on a big celebrity blog or something as well. -hyperion
big celebrity blog? I have a complete entertainment website. http://www.vibgyorlife.com Forum is attached with this site http://forum.vibgyorlife.com
yeah... a blog or website with lots of visitors to get quality traffic to your forum. Might cost a lot, but might be worth while. Otherwise just buy some posts in the buy, sell, trade area. Copy and paste some yahoo answers stuff for topics and stuff. Make a ton of members yourself and have discussions with all of them. lol -hyperion
Post some interesting news and gossips about celebrities so that members have something to discuss .Why you expect them to reply your post that only has photos .Also search for relevant forums and join them and use your forum link in signature ( make it attractive like Rakhi Sawant found in ****** - like that ) SO that users start joining your forum but if they do not find it interesting , they will become inactive .Making a forum a success requires hard work .No matter what happens keep posting interesting content and users will increase on the way
I have found that if you can post the news before the competition and get it out to the social news bookmarking sites with a juicy bait intro, you got a good chance if getting traffic and sign ups. I have learned with my experience that it takes a long time to build a forum, involves many hours of research and work. I never got around to offering an incentive like something for free (prize), due to a small marketing budget and will power. Hey why not get signed autographs of the bollywood babes and offer them to the highest poster etc. Your website has a good vibe about it, the colours are warm and inviting, great logo, and great features.