How to promote my forum?

[Noner]

Hello! I own this forum: Tv-bb.org. How should I promote it? It doesn't have any members because I just started it from a couple of hours. But what I should do for it to increase the members? How can I start it fine?

 

[Fewski]

Try paid forum posting to get some activity then....

Advertise, Advertise, Advertise.

Try buying text links and banner links on sites that deal with yours. You can also try to do Adwords.

Just remember no one wants to join an inactive forum.

 

[overfillings]

Those are all good suggestions Fewski, but is there a way to get people posting on a forum without having to pay?

 

[Fewski]

Those are all good suggestions Fewski, but is there a way to get people posting on a forum without having to pay?

Ask your friends and everyone you know to post. You can even post yourself, just under different usernames and talk to yourself. Or you can try advertising it and hopefully someone will start posting.

 

[Brian]

I just took a look at your forum, you have to many forums starting out, you should reduce the number so it looks more busy, that will get more people to post if the site looks active.

 

[darmar]

Those are all good suggestions Fewski, but is there a way to get people posting on a forum without having to pay?

May to try with Ad Revenue Sharing.... there are some forum plugins that share revenue on users based on number of their posts.... all the user have to do is enter their Google AdSense account ID....

 

[john238]

Paid posting is the best option to start of with and then you should promote like as what has been mentioned above. I have started mine of with paid posting and it is coming along slow, but nicely.

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

Keep contributing to various forums or categories in forums where people will see your signature.

And, advertise here. I advertise in the .tv forum for my .tv site and in the wanted forum for my broker site.

Give people a reason to visit your site then give them a reason to come back.

 

[Dreads]

CONTENT <<

Its really a big one
Let your forum offer something that others dont!

Also getting pagerank and advertising is good as well :P

Send Cash/or Your Life to Make Cash

 

[xtremeoff-road]

Forget the paid posting...unless you have it done prior to taking your site live. It gives a false impression and quite frankly does not add any true content to your site.

I tried it once, they would start threads, people would respond, and they would not reply...it does not look good to your faithful members.

 

[john238]

I thought that would happen, but I have noticed that most of the people have replied. The thing that you have to do is to manually pay people to do it and not use a paid posting service. Paid posting services that do it as a business is more likely not to reply to posts.

 

[umesh281]

I thought that would happen, but I have noticed that most of the people have replied. The thing that you have to do is to manually pay people to do it and not use a paid posting service. Paid posting services that do it as a business is more likely not to reply to posts.

Yes, I do agree paid posting is a good idea to promote your forum...it is very hard to promote your own forum coz. many big forums are available and ppl. don't want to stay to other forums ..make your forum add revenue too..

 

[sufi]

Paid Posting is a good idea but of course won't help in long run because the posters will run away after their work is completed. You can offer some kind of rewards for members (Like NP$ here on NamePros), it will encourage members to become regular posters.

 

[mickmel]

Check out the Post Swappers link in my sig. It's a way to allow you to post on other forums and get them to post on yours, and it's all tracked. The more often you post on other forums in the list, the more likely people will be to post on yours.

I just got it going yesterday, so I'd love some feedback on it.