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Tezza

Tezza

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I've got a site with a forum I'm trying to build up.. I'm doing the social bookmark/FB/Twitter deal, linking to it from yahoo answers, publishing a few spun articles, whatever and getting traffic.. not getting many sign ups.
I'm making dud profiles, posting new threads/replying, to build the content and appearance of an active forum..

Anyone got any tips ? I'm starting to think maybe my idea just sucks :repuke:
 


Tezza said:
Car audio.
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If you participate on any other forums you could mention your new forum to other members. You could offer to pay people to participate and help promote your forum for awhile, or try to create some other incentive or giveaway to encourage people to sign up.

If you think your content will make people want to stick around, you may even start a PPC campaign on some cheap keywords or offer to buy ad space from webmasters in your niche. It's going to be more about promotion and good content early on.
 
DanWesson said:
If you participate on any other forums you could mention your new forum to other members. You could offer to pay people to participate and help promote your forum for awhile, or try to create some other incentive or giveaway to encourage people to sign up.
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Thats an awesome idea.. I've got a downloads section, I should make that members only. Maybe do some Premium articles in members only section.


For forum structure I checked out the competition and replicated their basic layout and design cos it obviously works.. for section topics I picked the ones with the most average traffic.

I've been generating fake profiles/posts on topics to stimulate discussion and make the place look populated. I should probably be doing that a bit more often ?


Thanks for the ideas guy. Its been about 3 months, so I might just be impatient ?
 
profitaddiction said:
Do you have anything DECENT threads on the forum that would cause any reader to want to sign up in the first place? I've purchased paid forum postings before and they sucked so much ass.
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I looked at some paid posting, but I agree with your comments.
 
Step it up bro.........

Video tutorials.

Video of sound tests.

Real reviews of products and comparisons........

etc.....

I've always liked how sitepoint.com does things. Tutorials, products, guides, reveiws, etc....
 
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