Driving traffic to a forum

[Cormac]

Take a gander...
Search Boards for seo - Forum Discussion Search with BoardTracker.com

Pretty nice search engine to get listed in.

[paulocon]

Thanks again for all your help - vey interesting read...

[3rigena]

Originally Posted by Cormac

And you don't want boardtracker on board because technorati will get jealous?

lol

[Cormac]

Another thing you should focus on is improving your community relationships. There are a few plugins which can help you with this such as the Auto PM and the automatiac thread on user registration which welcomes them to the board.

But both of those do pretty much the same exact thing tbh.

I was to run another forum I would install the automatic PM plugin, and within provide information on what the forum is about, who to contact if assitance is needed, give details about what type of thread is suited in each forum and finally provide a link to the 5 most usefull threads.


(not sure if those plugins are available on simplemachines buy they're available on VB anyway)

[Redfly]

Hire a poster if you have to to give the forum some beef. Then get your mates to post a few. Make sure you have email notification of EVERY post set up.

Use two different admin accounts and reply twice to any forum topic from a "Real" user.

Once you have something, depending on your niche, run a small borad match adwords campaign and make sure your landing page has a VERY strong incentive to sign up and powerful call to action to compliment that.

Also, a little tip for you, if your users are not so tech savvy, I would go with Vanilla.

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by Cormac

Take a gander...
Search Boards for seo - Forum Discussion Search with BoardTracker.com

Pretty nice search engine to get listed in.

If only they'd accept this board ...