best ways to increase activity

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  1. BananaQueen

    BananaQueen Grand Master

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    what is the best thing you have ever done to promote your forum?

    what worked best for me was making a section for members to post links to their own websites in, if they put a link to my forum, on theirs. it was one of our members idea, and it worked, as a few of our members own forums that get a lot of activity, and it helps us both out.

    another one that worked well for me, was to organise a few days where special guests who have a lot of experience in what your forum is about.

    i tried those on my new forum last night, and pretty much doubled my activity for today, and bought a new kind of bot that has never visited before :woohoo:
     
  2. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    The best thing you can do is learn some SEO practices, implement them and that will increase traffic bringing more members and usually more content too. While it is good using the techniques you mentioned, they will never bring a steady and constant traffic to your site, still though theyre good to boost activity on some forums.
     
  3. AlexPablte

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    Try to introduce new tools and techniques of what your users are looking for.

    You should personally also answer some relevant question so that users would think that you are too active and you are too concerned about running the forum.
     
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    incentives when posting always work.
     
  5. Severus

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    first run a contest with some cool prizes then visit some promotion fourms and start topics about your forum there! It really helps!
     
  6. ShinLi

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    My forum is centred around advertising. Our biggest service to members is an advertising directory, in order to advertise, they need to put up our affiliation button on the index page of their forum. I believe this is the main way we get traffic to our forum.

    Next to that our forum name couldn't be more simpler and more appropriate what the forum is for. If people look for a directory to advertise their rpg (so add rpg directory in google) they will find RPG Directory as the first hit.

    Simpler and more forum based ways to increase activity is to hold contest, referral competitions, advertise your butt off and affiliate with other forums of your genre.
     
  7. eVoXTRM

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    events with gr8 prizes and then advertising is awesome
     
  8. BananaQueen

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    currently im getting extra activity by running a posting competition with awesome prizes :)
     
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    How much activity did those posting competitions bring to your community? Did you have any problem with spam?
     
  10. BananaQueen

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    it bought quite a lot more activity than normal, which was pretty awesome
     
  11. Sore

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    SEO and letting users mingle seem to be the only thing that works reliably for me. ;)

    Most of my registrations find us via Google, Bing, etc. and a good fraction of those start posting and interacting.
     
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    Contests work well for me.
     
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    Hi every one
    Well in my point of view micheal is right,SEO prectice is very inportent for improving your forum,i am sure that will increase traffic bringing more and more members and usually more content too.and its for sure really.
     
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    Yes, contests work very well for me aswell. I suggest using those.

    Regards, Keylogged.
     
  15. onlineearner123

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    yeah....contests can help in increasing the traffic as well as activity....in the forum
    hold some contests and giveaway prizes .......u ll get a lot of members
     
  16. pompano21

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    I join this forum today, log in and see the most retarded guide I have ever seen.
     
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    I think One page and Off page optimization are the best activities to boost massive traffic towards your site and increase your ranking.
     
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    good evening friend great post thanks
     
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    I always go on to promotion forums and advertise my own forum :) Best way to get activity.
     
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    The first, and probably only, greeting from Slovenia - having only 2 million souls, statistically, I actually count for at least 10 European votes S.
     

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