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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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Well 437 posts in the last 24 hours is pretty good. :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors.
You dont know that, you're just guessing. Unless Freeola choose to tell us we dont know how many visitors this forum gets. For all we know, lots of people might find the forum and just decide not to post.
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors.
You dont know that, you're just guessing. Unless Freeola choose to tell us we dont know how many visitors this forum gets. For all we know, lots of people might find the forum and just decide not to post.
Except Sunflower...
Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on
> here since Special Reserve folded.
*Feels proud to be different*
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on
> here since Special Reserve folded.
*Feels proud to be different*
'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on here since Special Reserve folded.
I've only just decided to read this thread.
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