So your having a hard time turning your visitors into postersAnd have no idea how to get your forum going? Well, if your someonewith that problem and want things to change, look no further. In thisarticle I will teach you different ways to encourage visitors to joinyour forum.1) Help New Members feel Comfortable Things such asthe terms of service or the rules should be easy to find and not hiddentwo or three pages away. Lead by example and have all the staff andmoderators do the same. This way they already have know what the rulesand don't have to worry about braking some rule.
Have anIntroduction area in your forum for your new members and make sure youor someone else in the forums welcomes them, this always makes themfeel more welcomed and not so much as an outsider.
2) Top Peoplein the Field post at the forum - If you can get one or more wellrespected people in your topic area to post it will make it look moreprofessional. When visitors see this they will think that the forummust be good or why would someone respected like that post there.
3)Having the right mix of posters - It's important to have bothprofessionals and new members. The new members will ask the questions,while the professionals can answer them and discuss new and big thingshappening on your topic.
4) Contest - An other way to getvisitors to become posters is by using contests. For example you couldrun a contest that would give the first ten new members to post 100messages wins 30 dollars, game, software, etc. Bring out the worst insome members, so they can get the prize. It can make your forum lookterrible. So make sure you make it clear that it must be quality postand don't do this often.
5) RSS feed - Allow other web sites toput your web site's forum most resent posts on their site though RSSfeeds, it doesn't even have to be the most resent post, you can allowthem to set it up how ever they like. This is a great way to get linksand to build you targeted traffic. You'll find on those controversialsubjects will generate many new members.
6) No one wants to befirst - Let's face it, no one posts on a forum that is empty, they feellike they are talking to their self (We do that to much as it alreadyis). Make sure you signup with different nicknames and post. Try to addabout five everyday, you don't need 100s of nicknames to do this. Alsodon't post the same thing to much, make it look new and try to post oncontroversial subjects.
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