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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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Everyone use MySpace Bulletins! =D
Machie wrote:
> Yeah I remember that. If Freeola weren't so strict about new
> forums and needing 3 moderators I would have created an anime
> forum, social bookmarking forum (for all those weird links I
> find), a 'PC, Internet & Webdesign' forum and a Big Brother
> forum that would last for the duration of BB.
Well, if you need three moderators, get some together; I'll gladly moderate on any new forums if it's what's needed to get people posting here.
In terms of promoting the site, that's harder; I've no real ideas, and posting links on other forums is a pretty idiotic one.
> Yeah I remember that. If Freeola weren't so strict about new
> forums and needing 3 moderators I would have created an anime
> forum, social bookmarking forum (for all those weird links I
> find), a 'PC, Internet & Webdesign' forum and a Big Brother
> forum that would last for the duration of BB.
Well, if you need three moderators, get some together; I'll gladly moderate on any new forums if it's what's needed to get people posting here.
In terms of promoting the site, that's harder; I've no real ideas, and posting links on other forums is a pretty idiotic one.
A fairly simply solution could be to just make the link to the forums more obvious on the freeola homepage.
I remember when I decided to come back and check out how to forums were doing, before Christmas, and it took me a while to find them. And I was looking for them.
There must be a huge number of people looking at the freeola homepage each day. Make an eye-catching link to the chat forums, and we'll get more members.
I remember when I decided to come back and check out how to forums were doing, before Christmas, and it took me a while to find them. And I was looking for them.
There must be a huge number of people looking at the freeola homepage each day. Make an eye-catching link to the chat forums, and we'll get more members.
We all know it's uncool to be numero uno poster.
Hedfix wrote:
> 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
>
> -----------------------
>
> 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.
Don't think i'll be in the top ten for very long, I just made a flurry of posts as i'd been away for a while.
I remember when Forest Fan used to have 4000+ posts a month to his 'credit'.
> 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
>
> -----------------------
>
> 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.
Don't think i'll be in the top ten for very long, I just made a flurry of posts as i'd been away for a while.
I remember when Forest Fan used to have 4000+ posts a month to his 'credit'.
Hedfix wrote:
> * Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
Can't say I haven't met Freeola half way ^_^
> * Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
Can't say I haven't met Freeola half way ^_^
My posting depends on how busy I am at work and at home.
At the minute I'm busy in both so am around about 100 for the last 30 days but a few months when work was slack and I had more free time at home I was over 1000.
At the minute I'm busy in both so am around about 100 for the last 30 days but a few months when work was slack and I had more free time at home I was over 1000.
Funnily enough, I'm about at the level of posting that I've always have been. I don't think I've ever been over 300 posts in 30 days and most of the time I hover around 150.
Stories, yes. I'm waiting for entries to the short story competition.
And that means you too, all of you who've never entered before or even written a story in your lives, why not give it a try?
The subject is Midnight, which is pretty broad.
And that means you too, all of you who've never entered before or even written a story in your lives, why not give it a try?
The subject is Midnight, which is pretty broad.
We were use to getting 2000 posts a day. But then most of that was chit chat. I'd like to see lots of discussions, articles and stories etc.
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