i have a forum but very little activity members join but without activity. its a general forum which covers topics like sports gadgets movies health etc. please help me know how do i promote this forum and convince users to posts messages start threads i also allow do follow signature. I basically need suggestions where can i find users who can participate in my forum without spamming.
Generating participants n any forum is difficult - but in a general one especially so. Whilst you may want to keep it general start by focussing on a specific area and trying to attract people that way (for example gadgets) as the more discussion in that area the more gadget fans are likely to sign up. Try focussing on a) sending traffic via various sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, EZA etc. If the articles are focussed on a certain area your traffic will be too b) do you have the funds to get adverts at various sites? c) Look for guest posts on popular blogs where you put together a QUALITY article in return for backlinks which will send traffic d) do you have the budget for adwords? e) look to create a list so you can keep people who have visited coming back f) get friends involved - the more conversation happening on teh forum the more likely someone visiting it will sign up
Try finding paid posters here at DP. You can pay them $0.05 per post. If you invest $50 you will get 1000 posts. Those posts will get indexed by search engines and you will get visitors. Also, your forum will look active!
Put user website in your signatures and join maximum niche related forum. you will get expected result but slowly.
Forum Posting will be good enough and along with please try to use the social bookmarking as well. I would recommend you to design some blogs concerning your forums and try to promote these to attract visitors.
thanks I dont have budget for promotion I have been building links from different methods not yet tried ezine I have created blog posts with link back in different blogs.. but i dont get any link advantage these posts are indexed but backlinks are not counted I used forum signatures in different niche. I will now try to focus on one part of the forum and try to promote it by adding content related to that niche thanks eza and niche targeted content are two things i will try edit : forum posting is also I would try to do it. even though i have used it in past I also did lots of bookmarking and forum profile backlinks but no yet ranking
Most of the above will help. The thing i find helps the most is to pay people to post for a while. Active looking forums will take off quicker than inactive ones.
You can convert your forum into a paid to post site. You can basically have a rate of 3-5 cents per post and set a payout limit. Before you are even about to pay for your users you are already in profit from the adverts they wi9ll be clicking in your forum. You can set CPC or CPM ads for this.
not to highjack, but if a forum has 6-7 active posters would you still opt to pay for more posters, or would you rather use your budget on another advertising scheme?
I wonder from your description, how you call it "do follow" forum. It is alright you desire people to follow it- but that does not mean it is "do follow"