Hi everyone .. I used to build and manage websites, but managing a forum is a kind of dark magic ! and I don't know how to kick start my newly launched discussion boards here is the URL http://www.youtips.net/forum/ The website is up for more than a year and a half now, but I just thought that adding a forum will help to increase the page views and will make the website more helpful .. So any ideas on how to bring new members and make them post ? I will be thankful ..
your forum has little to post if nothing else creat 20-50 accounts start posting. Suck talking to yourself but after awhile members start join and talk. i noticed about yours nice thing least you have 20-40 active members just mostly guest. Do more backlinks. get do follow forums and blogs and post like crazy. Build up your organic traffic. I noticed on mine i had a plain color one at first people said dont ad collor but i did and i started getting more members and about 300 post per day and growing. Only been doing seo for like 3 months 2 seriously. I also think its too white.
The colors make it difficult to read. You should also test the layout with Firefox as it seems broken on my machine. Start a weekly newsletter to bring back people who don't visit your forum for a long a while.
Less COntent, And Low Quality content is the problem of your Forum... Just make it rich wit Quality Contents and users will follow... also get some good moderation teams
Your forum won't attract new members since the content is not many. Only when you have posted lots of valuable topics that new members start to flood in.