Forum growth

[Barrucadu]

I've started a forum (http://www.talksatan.com), and the only advertising has been the link in 2 posts on NP, and telling 8 people on msn messenger.
Over the 6 days it has existed, it has gained 95 posts and 14 members. Is this good for a forum with almost no promotion?

 

[crud3w4re]

Yes. I'd say so. I saw many forums that had no members [or a few] besides the admin, and just basically inactive. I always concentrated on atleast getting one member a day, optimizing my ads, and sending out monthly or weekly newsletters reminding members of the forum.

 

[Barrucadu]

sending out monthly or weekly newsletters reminding members of the forum.

Hey, thats a good idea. I may start doing that.

 

[JBebbington]

My forum linked in my signature started on the 22nd Nov. and whilst the post count isn't great, I had 18000 hits in the first 8 days, and 1000 through December so far.

I would say those stats are good.

 

[Sabre]

My forum linked in my signature started on the 22nd Nov. and whilst the post count isn't great, I had 18000 hits in the first 8 days, and 1000 through December so far.

I would say those stats are good.

Hits aren't all that important, it's user activity that's important.

My forums had around 550,000 hits last month, not bad.

I've started a forum (http://www.talksatan.com), and the only advertising has been the link in 2 posts on NP, and telling 8 people on msn messenger.
Over the 6 days it has existed, it has gained 95 posts and 14 members. Is this good for a forum with almost no promotion?

That's about average for a forum, with the amount of promotion you've done.