Tips for your forum

[Footzilla]

Just thought to share some tips to boost your forum activity. Here are tips I could think of right now:

1.Sign up for many social bookmarking sites.
2.Post in different forums about your site. Dont spam because you can get i trouble.
3.Hold different contests.
4.Post frequently on your forum.
5.The most useful, create a sitemap.
6. Write about hot celebrities. Many users are attracted by that.
7.Get any quality host.
8.Dont rely on a subdomain, buy your own domain.
9.Try to reply on every post.
10.You should have more posts than any other member. Post frequently.
11.Link with other sites.
12.Optimize your sites for search engines.
13.Dont ever go for a dark theme. It makes your members to not to read every post. Try a light colour theme.
14.Make a thread which is for the people who are finding difficult to understand certain english words.
15.Do not forget to make a thread about rules. It looks more professional if there is one thread about rules. Sticky it.
16.Make a blog.
17.Keep your personal information as a secret. Dont ever tell about your wife, kids, age, etc.
18.Keep your website domain as your signature on other forums.
19.Do not ban a member straight away until it's a serious issue.
20.Headlines of the posts should be attractive.

Enjoy these tips written by me!

[devilbatista]

Yes, FootZilla. Simple and useful Tips. If these tips are applied then the forum can promote and be popular.

[DEADMAN]

Well done, Footzilla. If it is written by you, then I've to give you the appreciation and credit and most of your points are correct however all your points supports to attract visitors. Nice post, try posting such.

[avi007i]

People should be able to register your forum. Ineligible and blurred captchas or verification strings, can really anger the people intending to sign up
and Be interactive with your forum members and help them if they have queries.

[Nazreen]

People should be able to register your forum. Ineligible and blurred captchas or verification strings, can really anger the people intending to sign up and Be interactive with your forum members and help them if they have queries.

I don't think that the captcha in the registration page for the BAF is illegible at all. Unlike other captchas out there where you need to refresh the image every time, the captcha is BAF forums is very much readable. I've just logged off and tested this and refreshed the image 5 times. Every time I refreshed it, the image is always very clear and legible.

[Fergal]

Great tips there Footzilla, thanks for sharing.

How do you think No. 14 could be applied to BAF?

[Nazreen]

Great tips there Footzilla, thanks for sharing.

How do you think No. 14 could be applied to BAF?


14.Make a thread which is for the people who are finding difficult to understand certain english words.

I'm not Footzilla but I think that the people who are just starting to learn english have difficulty in understanding english phrases. When chatting with someone from China before, I asked how she is doing and she answered that she's not doing anything but chat with me. When I asked "How's it going?", she answered that she's not going anywhere. :)

We can just suggest that they're free to ask questions about anything that they don't understand in the posts.

[DEADMAN]

When chatting with someone from China before, I asked how she is doing and she answered that she's not doing anything but chat with me. When I asked "How's it going?", she answered that she's not going anywhere.

Very funny, Nazreen. It made me laugh. Well, for those people who are having hard time to understand english, I think a Separate section should be established so that they can improve their English with simple english to advance.

[Hurbel2k]

Why am I missing something in this list?

how about....

Quality content.
A helpful forum.
The forum might be a reference-site if a question about some topic has to be answered.
The greatest Off Topic (*)
Intriguing personalities post in the forum.

In short:
make the people desire to be in Your forum.

*I've seen a forum prosper without any off topic area, because that forum is the only reliable source on the topic. Lately they introduced Off Topic on massive user request.

[avi007i]

Quality content.
A helpful forum.
The forum might be a reference-site if a question about some topic has to be answered.
The greatest Off Topic (*)
Intriguing personalities post in the forum.


good tips !!

But also you might need to analyze your niche market before you make a forum for it and determine whether your forum is going to hit the bull's eye or not.
For example. Search for hypnosis forum in google. Even the first forum that shows up in the result has no active participation !!

[pankaj]

Very good tips. I have a tip to share with you all.
* If we want more members to join on our forum and post regularly we need to give something in exchange to them wither money or some domains or hosting.
Also if we have vBulletin , than there re more chances for our forums to grow because a prmium forum makes our forum professional.

[devilbatista]

Why am I missing something in this list?

how about....

Quality content.
A helpful forum.
The forum might be a reference-site if a question about some topic has to be answered.
The greatest Off Topic (*)
Intriguing personalities post in the forum.

In short:
make the people desire to be in Your forum.

*I've seen a forum prosper without any off topic area, because that forum is the only reliable source on the topic. Lately they introduced Off Topic on massive user request.


Well, Short and Sweet tips. Most of the Forum lack these like Quality content, Helpful Post. Most of them are full of Spams. So Moderation is equally needed on the other hand. There should be team work of Admins and moderators of the Forum to make the forum clean and helpful to users. The forum should be user friendly too. Many forum lack these, as a result they don't have users in their forum nor they get popular.

[juicemane]

one thing i noticed that successful forums have is a download section

the main music forums that I am a membre of all have an intensive download section, and usually hundreds of people are in there at a time

[Fergal]

one thing i noticed that successful forums have is a download section...

A download section would be very relevant and helpful on a music forum. Do you think it would be relevant for webmaster, personal success and business forums?

[juicemane]

It helps with everything. It helps the webmaster generate more traffic, if there is a section where you can download e-books perhaps.

[kingmurtaza196]

great tip Footzilla these are almost basic tips for blog too..
I never ran a forum before but I am sure if you go by these tips you forum will run sweetly in no time:)