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sobrietyonline
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 Posted - 16 September 2005 : 21:37:34
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| asking for help.... any suggestions to get more users posting (besides zero)? |
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bobby131313
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 16 September 2005 : 22:49:31
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You have a topic now. 
Google adwords work well for me. If you choose very specific keywords, it's affordable. Good luck. |
Switch the order of your title tags |
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sobrietyonline
Starting Member
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Posted - 16 September 2005 : 22:51:19
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| ok... sorry, the reason I said not showing off in the title was because I originally posted this in "Show off your Forums". Obviously I am not there yet. It is working though so I figured I post in that forum. Sorry about that. I can still use alot of help. Honesty is definitely welcome, please be honest. Thanks! |
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sobrietyonline
Starting Member
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Posted - 16 September 2005 : 22:54:52
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bobby, that was very cool of you to do... thanks!
ps. and very true! |
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Roger Fredriksson
Average Member
Sweden
556 Posts |
Posted - 17 September 2005 : 05:53:29
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A major risk with this extremly powerful forum is that people do not use it because of all options, boxes, terms, images, icons, links etc - the things we like. In my old very clumsy minimized home-made site I got more posts than in my new Snitz/Image-forum. If I am right I do not know how to take away that threshold, perhaps the base setup should give users a minimum of tools and then everyone could add features after getting used to it and discovering what they need.
I would very much appreciate if somone have this kind of modded version of Snitz and gave us links to the sites.
An other experince is that it is definitly not enough just to be on the net, we need a lot of other ways of marketing the site. That is difficult and it would take a lot of non-existent money.
If you are in some kind of group - small or large, why not ask to show how to use it and hope that rings from the drop gives you more visitors. |
rf/www.avgifter.com |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 17 September 2005 : 11:52:16
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Its not a bad site. How long have you had it up?
The only suggestion I would make, is make sure that there is a link back to the main site from the forum. If somebody comes to the forum, they have no means of getting to everything else.
Don't forget, it takes time to build a community. We set up the Warsong Records forum not to far back, and haven't seen much activity yet. A lot of it has to do with not to many people knowing that its there. |
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dabugster
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 17 September 2005 : 13:33:48
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My forum has been up for almost 3 years and it has gone though ups and downs. Sometimes there are like 20 - 30 people posting a lot ... then times like lately there are only like 4 -5. I have people join but not post. i try to post things that get picked up by Google and Yahoo and stuff. My board it about Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe, but Tommy Lee just had that reality show and had that Hot girl tutor on there so i put a post about her and got a crap load of hits from people searching her name on Yahoo. SO maybe try to post current news items that are likely to be picked up by search engines.
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sobrietyonline
Starting Member
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Posted - 17 September 2005 : 18:18:22
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Bobby, thanks again... I signed up for adwords today and got more hits (@ 10 more so far today) thanks for the tip. I just need to figure out the breaking point since this is non-profit!
Roger, I agree that Snitz probably has more features than the typical user uses. I like your site; unfortunately I don't speak Swedish!
Anon, It's been up for @ 3 months (more on that later). Thanks for catching that (link back to homepage). I'm not sure how I lost that but it was worth putting it back in (after I searched the forums and tried it several times).
dagbuster, thanks for the words of encouragement. Its makes me feel better that I am not alone! Also, thanks for the idea of adding other current threads.
My site is changing daily, mostly because I learn new things and I try to apply them. I do not want to look amateurish, unfortunately I am. The two major problems I have is color scheme and content. What else is there???
Thanks for listening!
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 17 September 2005 : 18:41:49
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Peaks and troughs...forums go through cycles, and you need to hit a critical mass of users posting for it to form a comunity. How do you get people to post? You give them something to come and post about! Think carefully about how you will attract people (and so posters) back to your site over and over again...then try creating a few starter posts with open-ended titles (nobody wants to be 'first post' until they feel comfortable) such as 'how do you...', 'what's your favourite...'
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 17 September 2005 : 21:31:48
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The Warsong Records has been up since April, and we haven't gotten much yet... but I've started curbing Will's tendency to post for the sake of activity and re-directing it to posting guitar lessons. He's got the first one up now. Its kinda short, but he's still learning how this works too. This also is a work in progress.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is "patience grasshopper" 
If you want help with the look, I can help and I'm sure others will be willing to as well.
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sobrietyonline
Starting Member
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Posted - 18 September 2005 : 11:55:57
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thanks pdrg.. I agree. Like everything else in this world it takes time.
thanks AnonJr, I stopped by your site. It's cool. At this point It seems like I change my site daily. I'm never satisfied. It's the learning curve.. |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 18 September 2005 : 12:02:08
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Trust me, once you start tweaking, you'll never stop!
btw, thanks for stopping by. I saw it this morning. I'm still working on a flash-based media player for the song samples. Those guitar icons I had just added yesterday.... the modifications never end. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 18 September 2005 : 13:26:06
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| sobrietyonline - this community here has been turning over for 5+ years in it's present form, yours'll build if there's a reason for people to do so, I'm certain of it :) |
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alanh
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 September 2005 : 12:22:42
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| sobrietyonline - your forum has potential for a very large number of users, like the other replies say it is early days yet. You will probably find yourself tweaking the site forever, I think us admins think there's always room for improvement. I have a very specialised forum that could in it's present state only ever have just over 200 members (don't ask), my users post in fit's and starts, sometimes no posts in a day then it goes nuts for a day or two. I wish you the best of luck with your site. |
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sobrietyonline
Starting Member
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Posted - 20 September 2005 : 23:42:56
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| Just want to thank everybody for their help.. this forum is one of the nicer ones out there. I will look into mod's a little more, I am concerned that I will mod it too much and the next time an update comes along it will mess things up... But I'll search for it first here! Thanks again |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 21 September 2005 : 06:29:04
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Originally posted by sobrietyonline
I am concerned that I will mod it too much
I don't know if there is such a thing. |
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