Promote Your Forum
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004So you’ve got a brand new Invision Plus forum. Great!
but where are the members and interesting discussions?
You’ve got to attract visitors to your website. Here are a few tips.
1. Link To Your Forum In Your Sig
Alot of people may find your board by accident by including a link in your sig.
You can do this on any other forums that you visit (providing it is allowed)
2. Promotion In Dedicated Advertisement Forums
Some boards have a specific forum to SPAM (synically advertise) your forum in the hope of attracting visitors.
3. Topsite Lists
These are a very good way to attract traffic to your site. You add your link to the list. Place the button on your website which visitors click to Vote for your vote. The more clicks the higher you get in the list. The higher in the list the more likely people will visit you. You can join exisiting ones or even create your own.
See 3rd party sites which provides Top Sites lists such as
Topsitelists.com
Topsitenet.com
Nuked Topsites
4. Affiliate
A good way for new sites to get some traffic is to affiliate with other websites/boards which have a similar subject. The way affiliation works in that you put a link/banner to their site on your board and request that they put one back to yours.
Where can find affiliates?
Try a google search using similar keywords as your site, see what sites are found. Those are the sites you may want to target for affiliation.