How to promot my forum

I have create a forum Cospro Technology Forum for all IT related issues (technical and non technical). Please visit my forum and let me know the area of improvements and suggetions to get more traffic.

 

start a competition and u can get it kicked off easily.

 

Consider writing a press release or start blogging about it.

 

i once used mturk to get my forum going cost about $300 in the end

 

Be careful, your forum looks dangerously similar to this forum. Digital Point might not be the best place to market your new forum.

 

Pay people to post.

 

1 issued some insights.
2 today's hottest topic
3 classical original post
4. Send some urgent and find another software, tools, etc. To attract others registered
5 do website optimization.

 

You can also organize some kind of contest related to you niche and announce a reward. Outsourcing it to forum posters for few days is a good idea till you start getting some good traffic. You can also create some professional videos related to your niche and post on video sites and link to your forum.

 

You should do something about the color! Make it more attractive and stand out! Try using other side like linked, twitter and facebook to get yourself out there. Theres ton of group for IT people GL

 

I'm a IT Engineer, but when I visit your site it make me bored because:
- Your 4rum has poor of posts about IT as you want it about.
- Ads is the first thing make visitors more bored. You need get out all of ads from your site before you get more members (27 is not a nice number), You see, DP forum has very small ads, if ads have better information can bring visitor toward other sites by click to your ads. Keep visitor as long as you can!
- More information about IT
...

 

Post threads and invite others to ask or addition to post.

 

Hello,

First off, I don't suggest you to use phpBB as it's very unprofessional. Use a professional forum software (I recommend MyBB).
Secondly, Post some contests on your forum - for example = Offer $50 to the person who first make 100 Posts or so. This will help you get kick started and ones you get some active members, your growth will start!

 

just do the SEO of your forum

 

I wouldnt pay people to post, I would find real people - do a competition, use social media - use existing forums to generate interest in your forum

 

send email marketing to people worldwide, so people start know about your forum

 

I would have a contest like other people have suggested. Make the contest related to forum posts to encourage discussion.

Keeping people engaged will be the hardest part of your adventure. You will constantly need to keep driving new people to the forum to keep the conversations going six months from now.

Starting the forum isn't a hard task. Keeping people engaged and constantly coming back is the hard task for you.

 

Competition is almost guaranteed to get your forum active

 

First, you need more people posting on your forums...

You will have to pay for this...

Article marketing and link building should help.

Heres an article on link building that should be helpful:

10 simple ways to get backlinks to your site

That should help you get more visitors

 

use social bookmarking sites

 

I think the best way to promote would be to invitee some high profile article writers to do a write up