Help from fellow admin to a noob

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by jhalls, Aug 20, 2010.

  1. jhalls

    jhalls Newcomer

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    Hi all,



    This is my fisrt post so please take it easy on me but I do need some honesty from you. I have created a forum that has been running for about a month. Here are the stats,
    • 1,469 Visits
    • 22,278 Pageviews
    • 15.17 Pages/Visit
    • 10.96% Bounce Rate
    • 00:09:48 Avg. Time on Site
    • 37.51% % New Visits
    My site is here http://www.southeastsxs.com and it has been up for about 4 weeks. The problem is I seem to be having trouble getting people to convert to members. I wanted to ask the opinion of people that have been doing this for a while. I am a noob at this but really want to make it fly.

    Any help would be much appreciated. I am considering collapsing the forums, as you will see I have them broken out for each type of vehicle and I wonder if it is too much and I should collapse them all so the catergories remain just not broken out into vehicles.

    What do you think?
     
  2. Brandon

    Brandon Regular Member

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    1st off, welcome to AA :)
    2nd, you have a ton of empty forums
    SouthEastSxS.com
    why not hide some of those until you have enough post that you need to separate them out?
     
  3. BananaQueen

    BananaQueen Grand Master

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    not telling anyone ;)
    yeah, theres way too many sections which dont have any posts in, its always best to start off small-i started off my forum with 10 sections, which makes it look more active, and you can add more when your forum is older and gets more posts. a good thing to do when youve started a forum is create a few threads in each section :)
     
  4. About Lee

    About Lee Regular Member

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    You have way to many forums which half of them could be edited and made into a whole complete forum. Also a forum looks bad if its full of empty areas. Either try and create topics or hide them.
     
  5. John1

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    Agreed, you should really fill those empty forums, or even hide them until you gain more members. I would suggst offering them something worthwhile for joining up. What do yuo currently offer someone that registers apart from a bunch of empty forums? (don't mean to be forward, but it's the truth).
     
  6. An4y

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  7. Sunsettommy

    Sunsettommy Adept

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    I have to agree with the common criticism that you have too big a forum board set up.That would be fine later on when you have a lot more members and traffic to work with.

    However I think your theme layout is very nice and clean.

    It takes time for most forums to take off.Yours is not even 2 months old yet.Patience is the ideal at this stage.
     

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