Hi there, I have a rating site, which is pretty good and I think I have done a OK job so far getting members. I have close to 600 members now, but it takes a lot of work getting them in. I have started a forum, so I think that will help. In 2 weeks I will have a "Add profile to myspace or blog" picture code, so they can display there membership to my site on there Myspace or blog. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting people in? I am doing Myspace bulls right now, but I cant do that forever Any suggestions would be great Take care guys and girls.
You could add some social bookmark buttons to your website, if you're lucky it can drive a fair bit of targetted traffic to your site. I use http://www.addthis.com to get the buttons. If you don't know what they are check the site out and it will explain. Once you've installed the buttons on pages on your site you could then tell all your members and encourage them to use them and add your site to their digg, del.icio.us etc. I would also try and do some homepage link exchanges with other hot-or-not websites. I would do them with the small banner buttons (I think its 88 x 31). As long as you have a good little banner it should get clicks if the other sites put them in a prominent place. Hope this helps.
I agree with above post, just implementing the same myself now. Also: Make a contest, or sweepstake and annouce it on related sites. Can bring many people to your site. Just give them a prize they want and you can afford.
First off, thank you very much for your help! I do not know anything about social bookmarks. Here take a look at my site, tell me where I could put them www.sexyornot.us
I would probably put them below your link to the forum but above the FHM ad. Its the type of site that lots of people will add to their social bookmarking accounts so ideally you would want it on as many pages as possible. And you can use a small button so it doesn't look out of place either. You could also try to squeeze a button into your forum. Preferably so it appears in the actual categories or threads themselves. So if someone ones to watch an interesting thread they will just bookmark it and come back another day. Hope this helps.
Why not utilize those members that you have with some offering, 600 members it quite enough to bring more members through referring.