Online Gaming News Website [needing marketing ideas]

[robertm05]

I will give rep for help

This website I have recently became a part of needs your help!

The site is a gaming news website that puts out 5+ quality news articles a day. It has loads of content, and that should improve rankings if they get a good marketing plan down. The site has a forum in addition to the members with dedicated staff and all of that. They just need a way to find people to join the forums, that can benefit from reading their articles. I personally love the site and am trying to do my part to help them out! They get a lot of unique visitors but not a lot of people join the forums.

http://www.gamernode.com

Let me know what ideas you guys have that can help!

 

[allinone]

Do you have any proof that you own that site? A pr 4/10 site asking for marketing help?! seems weird IMO.

 

[robertm05]

I never said I owned it. I manage the Graphics and content management. The site is only 6mo old and needs members. you can email me at [email protected] to see if I am telling the truth if you wish.

I am looking for ideas to get the members to register, we already get lots of uniques...

 

[peter phillips]

The forum is updated with latest posts and has 239 members. Maybe you should offer some kind of incentive to the new members after joining and making a few good posts. Introducing a referral program with the help of the existing members and awarding them some incentive for maximum no. of referrals might also help to some extent.

:imho:

 

[robertm05]

A referal program is not exactly the kind of incentive I am looking for. This is sort of a brain twister as we dont want to encourage spam either. Thank you for the help, do you have any more info you might be able to lay on me?

 

[peter phillips]

Unless you offer some incentives for maximum referrals or no. of quality posts, you are not going to get a lot of members. If you don't offer something on your forum then it will be just a waiting game for the the forum to come up.

 

[robertm05]

well we offer lots or articles daily, news updates the whole deal. The original thought is members would join the community because of the content. Maybe a newsletter? possibly webhosting after a certain amount of posts?

think the above would work?

 

[Namedelivery.com]

wow looks A LOT like gamespot.com...
Write to some game manufacturers and have them send you some games for review then give them away at the forums. I did this and it was great!

Tons of stuff you can do. Use your imagination!

 

[robertm05]

We have already gottengame from people like activision and namco. We also went to the VGA and are heading to E3 this year!

Giving the games away might be nice...