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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.
* 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.
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That's correct, but judging by the difficulty in getting to this site from Freeolas site, and the lack of members we've had since SR liquidated, I doubt we get that many.
I'd hardly call scrolling down slightly and clicking the link saying "Win free games", hard to get to. Okay it's not linked in the manner you'd expect, but to be honest the forums aren't overly relevant to Freeola except for the odd bit of technical support.
The Bingo games, which were suggested by a forum member, were initiated specifically to try to build up interest in the forums. You can see that quite a bit of effort has gone into this.
Unfortunately Google will not allow any adverts for Bingo, whether its gambling, free bingo or whatever, so we don't have a cheap way to promote it.
But it's a nice little addition for the time being.
Unfortunately Google will not allow any adverts for Bingo, whether its gambling, free bingo or whatever, so we don't have a cheap way to promote it.
But it's a nice little addition for the time being.
Tony wrote:
> The Bingo games, which were suggested by a forum member, were
> initiated specifically to try to build up interest in the
> forums. You can see that quite a bit of effort has gone into
> this.
Has the effort paid off?
As you can see theres certainly a perception among some forum members that traffic is slowing, would be interested to know if thats really true.
> The Bingo games, which were suggested by a forum member, were
> initiated specifically to try to build up interest in the
> forums. You can see that quite a bit of effort has gone into
> this.
Has the effort paid off?
As you can see theres certainly a perception among some forum members that traffic is slowing, would be interested to know if thats really true.
Well 437 posts in the last 24 hours is pretty good. :)
Back in t' day, there used to be 2000 posts a day.
And you know something, whether they admitted it or not, a lot of people posted a lot of stuff to get noticed in time for the notable elections.
But what's the incentive now?
EDIT - and another thing, the loss of the old post counts will have pushed some away.
And you know something, whether they admitted it or not, a lot of people posted a lot of stuff to get noticed in time for the notable elections.
But what's the incentive now?
EDIT - and another thing, the loss of the old post counts will have pushed some away.
I still check it every day, its just a case of not enough that interests me being posted. I mean the top 3 topics are the WLT, What mood are you in and whose the oldest member. Admittedly I haven't actually looked to see what the conversation is currently on in the topics but small talk as small as that doesn't interest me. Suppose I could try and contribute but I'm more of a reader than anything.
I still come and check forums too, and check posts but don't contribute that much too the conversations as have been busy but will try and contribute to it more now I am not so busy.
Garin wrote:
> Not that I wish to doubt you're the savour or anything but how
> about a miracle to prove you are? Perhaps you could turn
> visitors into posters?
> Not that I wish to doubt you're the savour or anything but how
> about a miracle to prove you are? Perhaps you could turn
> visitors into posters?
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Back in t' day, there used to be 2000 posts a day.
>
> And you know something, whether they admitted it or not, a lot
> of people posted a lot of stuff to get noticed in time for the
> notable elections.
>
> But what's the incentive now?
Well, it seems most lurk a bit, troll a bit, and post random thoughts. Not much for quality content around here these days. Shoot, they even give GAD to plagerised posts, so what does that say about Freeola anyways..
Every now and again there is a worthy post to bother giving any attention to or commenting seriously on, but for the most part it's just bubblegum and "how's the weather?" and "what I ate today.." kinda stuff. Tony took away from me any opportunity to win GAD, so I guess it's just a matter of time until I lose complete interest in any of this.
It would be nice to have the Notable thing again, but honestly I can't think of one person that I'd vote for that sticks around long enough to note. Sure, we have the conglomerate regular posters, who as far as I see, just talk a lot but say nothing. It's nice they're trying though.. :)
> Back in t' day, there used to be 2000 posts a day.
>
> And you know something, whether they admitted it or not, a lot
> of people posted a lot of stuff to get noticed in time for the
> notable elections.
>
> But what's the incentive now?
Well, it seems most lurk a bit, troll a bit, and post random thoughts. Not much for quality content around here these days. Shoot, they even give GAD to plagerised posts, so what does that say about Freeola anyways..
Every now and again there is a worthy post to bother giving any attention to or commenting seriously on, but for the most part it's just bubblegum and "how's the weather?" and "what I ate today.." kinda stuff. Tony took away from me any opportunity to win GAD, so I guess it's just a matter of time until I lose complete interest in any of this.
It would be nice to have the Notable thing again, but honestly I can't think of one person that I'd vote for that sticks around long enough to note. Sure, we have the conglomerate regular posters, who as far as I see, just talk a lot but say nothing. It's nice they're trying though.. :)
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