how to encourage people to post in forum

how i can encourage people to post topics in my forum.. suggestion are really appreciated

 

Money is always a good thing. There is a section on this forum which allows you to pay people to post to your site.

 

ya there is point system in our forum, we give rewards to top poster every month.

any other suggestions

also provide more more links and signatures with image attachment

 

post something controversial .. make outrageous claims.. that usually grabs attentions .. that is how media works anyway.. you know William Randolph Hearst made a lot of money from yellow journalism.. which some said started the Spanish-American war.

 

Offer some kind of incentive.

 

incentives are there if users are earning points and reach the limit what we have set for prices we give best prices to our members...on monthly basis

any other suggestions

 

Try to thread unique and interesting ideas, which will interest everyone.

 

I think you must tell them that your site DOFOLLOW, and if you have a good PR, they will be happy to do it

 

One way you could find quality posters! by offering Free Domain for Top Quality Poster on Monthly Basis! I think it would definitely may work out for your promotional cause

 

Hi

Thanks for wonderful suggestions...I have three domains which we decide to give for top poster of our forum..


http://www.fropker.com ( with 10 GB space, 100 GB Bandwidth, 99.9 % uptime, linux plateform)

http://www.bigadda.org

http://www.quikrsms.com ( with 10 GB space, 100 GB Bandwidth, 99.9 % uptime, linux plateform)


i hope this will help us to encourage people to post on our forum

is dp pays to members for posting?

 

Point system or some sort of reward is a great idea.

 

ya thanks, how about the offer we started today??

 

any other idea please

 

Have visited your forum... it looks good but not much discussion and thus I wouldn't be signing up, just like the rest of the people.
You need to create some ids and start posting on your forum (yourself or hire somebody) as there'll be more threads and visitors more people will start signing up.

 

try to make it popular by doing some SEO and adertisment so that the people can know about this. Hire some good forum posters who can post on daily basis for your forums.

 

Make some Contests and have some nice things to give away to the people for posting or as such.

 

Hold contests that give przies to the winner.Lets say you give a gift card or some money to the poster with the most posts by the end of the month. You can do this to get people to post on your forum.

 

Make sure you have interesting topics. I usually try to post several new topics a day on my forum. It helps. People post and come back.

 

I have written a special article on "Tips For Forum Owners", you should read it and follow the points

 

Offer really good content. And let people get dofollow links in their sigs to encourage them to post more.