I'm sure that you guys have a lot of tips and suggestions that could allow me to get more traffic. I'm doing pretty much everything that I know of. My forum is at www.whooked.com Any ideas? Thanks.
What about using social bookmarking services? Forums are social media themselves - pretty much related.
Since you've got over a couple hundred members, why not hold a contest and reward your current members for the referring new members?
Already did what you guys just suggested. I'll hold another contest pretty soon. A bigger prize. Any other suggestions?
You should probably explain what your message board is. I saw the thing to prompt me to register, but I had no idea what the message board is. I'm guessing a lot of people that stumble upon your website are thinking the same thing.
Oh yeah. That is actually a good point. I should add some info in that box. The box might get a little big though. lol Good idea! Thanks.
Umm what I would do is start Social Bookmarking, Creating Videos, Article Marketing and Positioning yourself as the expert. I can't go into this because I don't have much time but I'll go briefly into each one for you. 1. Social Bookmarking: Find the most popular social bookmarking sites and bookmark atleast 3 sites a day (they don't have to be related to your niche) and don't just bookmark your own stuff. The bookmarking sites and search engines can tell if you are just bookmarking your own stuff. 2. Creating Videos: Create some videos and upload them to youtube, its that simple just offer some good content that keeps the viewer coming back for more. Videos are one of my main ways to bring in the traffic. 3. Article Marketing: Article Marketing just do the same sort of thing but write articles obviously. Give away some free and unique content. Don't just try to get them onto your site, at the end yes you can advertise your site with a brief paragraph or sentence but don't go overboard. Submit them to sites such as Squidoo, HubPages and Ezine Articles. 4. Position yourself as the expert: Even if you are not an expert in your field portray yourself as one, all you need to do is be one step ahead of your target audience who are viewing your content. It's that simple, answer their questions and guide them to success. They will see you as an expert and they will follow you and feel like it's their duty to help you. -- Hamish
Hamish31, Thanks for the post ....The tips are very interesting about how we can get traffic to the site.... It will be useful for me and my site to drive traffic.