I started EliteTopics.com months ago. Just a few days ago, I introduced a new theme. I only have two members that visits the forum and posts. I've spent a lot of time and money making this forum. So what is it? Are the forums boring? Does it look bad? Why wouldn't anyone want to join it?
I think the forum looks good, the color scheme and the layout is nice. You should focus on improving your traffic.
I have already hired posters and payed many of them to post. I hosted a contest where I gave away $15 to the highest poster on both of my forums. I spent $65 on adsense, $10 on Stubmleupon ads, and another $20 here and there for ads. Not to mention the $150 license for IPB and the $20 a month hosting. I am trying here, but I don't know what I am doing wrong. I'm not getting any money from ads, so pretty soon I'm going to have to shut this thing down. What can I really do to get this thing going again?
The forum design is good. I like the adsense placement at the top...Try to add another image leatherboard at the bottom...and post some content.
sweet site cool domain... i could seriously help you...pm i have people who need a forum site to be active on.
Thanks for the feedback. It seems that the forum looks fine, but I still don't understand why people aren't signing up? Is it the type of forum that nobody would want to join?
I would add some type of welcome header explaining what the site is about. I looked at it for a few mins before I found out. You also might want to use your own favircon, you have an invasion one now.. it's little things like this that will help
You should actually create a blog or site to support and link to your forum. Just like how Shawn actually made DP become popular by offering free tools and promoting the forum with it.
Thanks for the suggestion Loco.M, I will try to make a favicon soon. And lycos, that's a pretty good idea, I have a blog, but I don't know how I can use it to promote my forum since my blog gets less traffic than my forum.