Need help for my forum

[bomb]

Hey everyone, I opened a ROM/ game community a while back, and it seems that nothing is working. Not many members (but me) post, and none of the newbies post or anything.

I'm getting enough members (around 2 a day) but the forums are becoming dead, I get little or no reply from my topics.

I have used an SEO modification for my IPB, but nothing is really happening.

Can someone please help me out?

http://romcrazy.co.uk

 

[weblord]

time for some contests, incentives to post
you can incentivize members to join in your forum as well
http://www.namepros.com/np-incentives/

 

[bomb]

I have contests often, for free VIP, I send out mass email's etc, but nobody really bothers. I am running a bit low budget right now :P

 

[popopo]

check your database and bandwidth.

 

[weblord]

NP$: 110.05 these can get you 22 members at the np$ incentives

 

[MrCat]

Try to provide some incentives to your members. Maybe like featuring a member's site on the homepage for being active in the forum. Or a referral system perhaps - the member with the most referrals gets a prize or something equivalent.

 

[Sergio965]

Well you see, the main thing with most forums, or the main reason why most don't prosper is because they don't offer anything unique to the user. Now I'm not saying that you're forum does this, but you have to figure out a way to differentiate yourself from other communities like yours.

So, as others stated above me, you need to provide either some soft of incentive or just unique modifications to your forum that will attract users.

=) Good Luck!

 

[bomb]

check your database and bandwidth.

What will that do? :P

NP$: 110.05 these can get you 22 members at the np$ incentives

Thanks weblord, will do that :D

Mr Cat, I have a referral system in place, nobody bothers to use it :P However I love the featured sites idea

Thanks sergio as well...how would a fake emailer and a rapidshare search engine do?