Taking a website up a stage

[alexe]

Hey guys/girls ect,

I have a gaming pr1 domain, has a blog/forums with a few active members. The site gets around 140-200 unique visitors a day, a few comments and thats it.
I've had some social bookmarking and im doing some directory submissions.
My question is how do i take my website to the next step, as in, more traffic, more forum members (active) and get an active forum going.

Is paid forum posting really worth it? does it actually work? Help me out guys!

Some extra info, site gets about 500-1100 visits from google and about 5.3k unique's last month

 

[dman_2007]

A link to the actual site would be helpful for us to come up with suggestions.

 

[alexe]

A link to the actual site would be helpful for us to come up with suggestions.

I knew that :p

Golden Developers World

 

[dman_2007]

Blog posts seem to be syndicated from others blogs, perhaps original blog posts will attract more visitors. Instead of hiring paid forum posters, it would be better imo to hire someone to write new blog posts. Also, maybe you can add a section for official previews of new games which have been recently released or will be released very soon.

 

[alexe]

Blog posts seem to be syndicated from others blogs, perhaps original blog posts will attract more visitors. Instead of hiring paid forum posters, it would be better imo to hire someone to write new blog posts. Also, maybe you can add a section for official previews of new games which have been recently released or will be released very soon.

Yeah thats right - There are game reviews, in the forum. Previews are a good idea, Thanks for that. I'll look into that one

 

[BlueSkyCamping]

I would try and avoid anything too spammy to be honest.

Concentrate on growing the site in an organic manner. If it doesn't feel natural to you then it's probably best avoided.

 

[alexe]

I would try and avoid anything too spammy to be honest.

Concentrate on growing the site in an organic manner. If it doesn't feel natural to you then it's probably best avoided.

Okay, I'll do some more submissions and social bookmarks

 

[probafix]

Yes paid forum posting really good idea. you can use paid forum posting to increase visibility on the search engines. You simply pay them to post on your bulletin board and they’ll make your forum comes alive with exciting content and interesting discussions for all to view.and you can use the facebook Blog.

 

[alexe]

Yes paid forum posting really good idea. you can use paid forum posting to increase visibility on the search engines. You simply pay them to post on your bulletin board and they’ll make your forum comes alive with exciting content and interesting discussions for all to view.and you can use the facebook Blog.

how do i use the facebook blog? could you tell me more about it