Hello all, I made a Skyrim Forum 9 days ago. I haven't been getting new members, yet I have been getting a decent number of hits. I think my SEO is setup pretty nice. I have already passed up my competitions on yahoo and bing, attaining the #3 spots, yet for google it has been a battle ranking in at the #24 spot (US). For other countries I am on first page. I have made a youtube channel and have been uploading gameplay commentary videos in HD, 10 videos so far. In addition I have made a fan page on facebook and have a twitter account for it. I would like some tips or some feedback on what you all think of it in general, as well as the areas I list below. SEO Theme Logo Forum Name Setup How to gain members aside from adding more content? How to entice them to sign up and help add user generated content? Thank you!
- You have been doing vdo marketing, social media campaigns (on facebook, twitter) and as you mentioned, you have done a nice seo job so i am not gonna touch that. Now traffic is not a problem but the conversion. If you site is this one, skyrimforums.org, perhaps, tryi to make that optin form bold, using nice call to action, nice graphic to grab attention telling them what they will get as a member etc. Cheer
You'll need lots of SEO work and lots of social websites. Maybe post on SKYRIM fan pages or go to social networks and post on them (reddit,fb,etc, the list goes on) also, youtube is a huge source of traffic. Make some funny or cool videos and link to your forum, yuou're bound to get members that way. Good Luck!
@shurpa - Link is in siggy. @asdfjklasdfjkl - my link is skyrim-forums.org. Like you said...the conversion is the hard part. @ajborrego - I have mentioned in OP that I have been doing that. I have all my videos linked to my site, twitter, and fb fan page.