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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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Weather?
It's been like this since the beginning of the year if not earlier.
It's been like this since the beginning of the year if not earlier.
Have you noticed the weather?
I see other forums are exactly the same, especially anything games related. It's a mix of the time of year and people being busy.
I don't think any forum can have that much of a sustained audience for 100% of the time.
And Freeola aren't going to spend money on advertising when the forums are really just here for us, anyway. Yes there is a certain amount of advertising for the ISP and hosting business, but I don't think it brings in that much revenue even when busy.
The best thing is for the posters themselves (namely, us) to do what we can to advertise the site. Anyone can bump up the search engine hits and I'm sure we can find ideas to encourage people ourselves.
I see other forums are exactly the same, especially anything games related. It's a mix of the time of year and people being busy.
I don't think any forum can have that much of a sustained audience for 100% of the time.
And Freeola aren't going to spend money on advertising when the forums are really just here for us, anyway. Yes there is a certain amount of advertising for the ISP and hosting business, but I don't think it brings in that much revenue even when busy.
The best thing is for the posters themselves (namely, us) to do what we can to advertise the site. Anyone can bump up the search engine hits and I'm sure we can find ideas to encourage people ourselves.
Top 10 posters and posts in the last 30 days:
1 Machie 620
2 Nin 512
3 Biggie Little Jr... 375
4 Alfonse 286
5 pb 266
6 Vee 216
7 Kawada 158
8 Chaos 147
9 Grandprix 125
10 Smedders 114
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13 downwards have under 100 posts in the last 30 days.
This is a set of forums regularly posted on by about 10 people.
Dying? Yes, ever so slightly.
1 Machie 620
2 Nin 512
3 Biggie Little Jr... 375
4 Alfonse 286
5 pb 266
6 Vee 216
7 Kawada 158
8 Chaos 147
9 Grandprix 125
10 Smedders 114
-----------------------
13 downwards have under 100 posts in the last 30 days.
This is a set of forums regularly posted on by about 10 people.
Dying? Yes, ever so slightly.
The forums are dying? News to me.
Anyway, there's only one thing you need these days, mentions on Wikipedia.
Anyway, there's only one thing you need these days, mentions on Wikipedia.
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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