A million looks good :-D

Well if you have a million members visitors think that this site is pretty cool since it has so many members and they decide to join.

Anyways I don't really know, FFL has been up for a while but we have to keep restarting because we have the worst luck in the world =\ You really just need to get your friends online that are interrested in the type of thing and get them to join, and get your friends from other sites to get them to join.

After you have around 100 members your site should start going pretty well, whenever FFL hit 100 members we started getting 4-10 members a day, however we keep having downtime and it sucks.

I get my members to recruit other members also, like since FFL is a FF website and we have a gil thing and itemshop thing we give out gil for each recruited member. The members we already have enjoy getting more gil so they will recruit members.

That's all I really do, I don't spend much time recruiting, I just add a link in my sig where ever I go.. except here because I'm too lazy and the forums are down right now anyways.

I am in the same boat, i am just starting my site out. So i should affiliate, sort a referal sytem out, advertise on other forums i post in (in my sig) and perhaps advertise on msn etc ?

Just curious - do u guys make any money from your boards or is this something that u do for fun?

Thanks

I do it for fun.

never asked for money and never will :classic:

Well, mot of us, have boards that are for fan sites, and some of us here have it to offer help. I don't accept money, and I don't think I will be making money with the board.

Drk

Whatever you do, don't spam other forums. :) I always get people spamming forums - they register once, spam it all over, and then never come back.

That is very bad netiquette amongs forum admins.

Inactive members is the worst part about forums, but also the biggest part. On my forum I have a small group of members, although most of them post regularly on a daily basis. I delete members who fail to reach 10 posts and have been inactive for 5 days, because those members usually aren't coming back. It might "look good" having a forum with 9000 members, even though 6000 of them are inactive a great deal of the time (while 3000 of those have a 0 post count).

The only flaw to this strategy is most people like to join see the registered members, and instantly think all members at that forum are active members and post regularly. Which is almost never the case. This is why I'm fairly soon going to devise a system to fix this..

Anyway, to not get carried away from the topic. Putting links in your signatures is always a pretty good way to get attention. Join other forums also, and become a poster there, and if you're liked enough there people will become curious and visit your links to your site.

Going to chat rooms is also a great way for advertisement :P
(even though 99% of time you get banned after the first link)

Also go for affiliate programs/banner exchanges, or anything else that means promotion.

I'm with you Drk (but if you get any money that you don't want, I'll be a real pal and take it off of your hands for you. That's what friends are for. ) :)