Ok i think i need help. My almost 2 years old forum is getting death. www.htportal.org/forum/ check it out. My idea was to make people post because its adsense revenue sharing forum, then i decided to add forum parts to all my other sites so every site to use my main forum. Nothing didnt help. I know many people come to my forum but they dont read it or post, probably because there are no new posts. So what i need, any ideas, strategys, tips how to make forum more active, how to make those visitors to read, register and write on my forum.
You have too many inactive sections. Merge or remove some, that'll make your forum look more active and attract more people. Or encourage the existing people to post more... You can add the sections later again when there's a need for them.
Your forum has some nice sections, but as Nico mentioned there are too many. Try getting rid of the less important ones for now. I would just start posting yourself, threads with will encourage members to join in like polls and fun questions that people won't be able to stop themselves replying to. Get your friends to join. Idk, getting a forum to be active is not an easy task, as some would imagine. Good Luck.
You need to put more infomative message to your forum.Please like useful infomation when they scan a forum.