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"How to save the forums..."

Bandwagon Jumping!

* Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.

* Create a temporary discussion forum about a popular news event in an attempt to grab the BBC HYS-style of poster.

* Do a deal with a decent search engine and put it on your lead page in an attempt to get users to make you their homepage.

* Bring back the news thing you used to do with amusing spins on various news.

* Chuck up some celebrity rubbish - that always brings in people to chat.

If you want the forums to bring people in and actually be a decent marketing addition to your site then this is the rather unfortunate turn you have to take.



However there are other good things to promote alongside this:

* Writing/poetry competitions

* Most hilarious news item of the day competition

* Best bargain of the day competiton

etc

The point is there are a 1000 ways to get in some more hits from those looking to chat about current topics and win amazon/argos vouchers but you're not attempting them and the forums are dying on their a**e.

Above all these ideas won't amount to anything without high search results and a little bit of sly marketing (email or otherwise) but using the obvious tricks (calling pictures 'Big Brother'/'other' over and over for instance) it shouldn't be a problem.

Worth a go I think.

So i guess you have all noticed the change now. No forum list on the main chat page. Pretty difficult to find the threat lists now so people will not just stumble upon us. What is going on. I think they are killing us.

Bingo's just come back up on some of the links, so they might be running some sort of maintainence.

Last time they told us when the chat room was closing (supposedly for good back then) so I can't see why they wouldn't tell us if they were thinking of closing it again now.

Machie wrote:
> Yeah they're making it harder to find the forums now. Do you
> think they're going to pull the plug on us?
>
> If that's the case I'll give Freeola five bob for the forum code
> and we'll carry on regardless (which I'm watching right now ^^
> I love Carry On films)


The Gameaday section of our site, which includes Chat, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Bingo and Customer Sites, now has its own navigation buttons in place of the previous set which previously led to Broadband, Dial Up etc and led to Freeola.com main site. But on the other side of the coin the main buttons on Freeola.com now include only the Freeola services. This is partly because we have some new services to add soon, but mainly because navigation on the Gameaday sites is now completely difference from Freeola.com.

There is very significant daily traffic to the Gameaday sites and it does not particularly need a direct feed from Freeola.com. However, it will still be advertised there and in MyFreeola.

Freeola customers will soon be able to add chat forums to their own sites.

We don't have any plans to change the Gameaday sites, though Bingo is not considered a permanent addition and is likely to be removed the next time we add a new category for Gameaday prizes.

Sounds about right. Would explain all the downtime for the links.

Thanks for clearing it up Tony.

New category for GAD huh? I've got lots of ideas! Umm I'll need to think about it first =/

This is my second time on these here forums (I was here years ago on Special Reserve), so I'll call my presence here The Second Coming - that's it! - maybe I am The Saviour...

Will wonders never cease..

GIMME BACK MY CULUR

Ladybird wrote:
> Will wonders never cease..

Step back in amazement: it is a miracle.

Tony wrote:

> We don't have any plans to change the Gameaday sites, though
> Bingo is not considered a permanent addition and is likely to be
> removed the next time we add a new category for Gameaday prizes.

[B]Woohoo!