how do websites like offtopic.com get so friggin big?
 

<a href="http://forums.offtopic.com/index.php?" target="_blank">http://forums.offtopic.com/index.php?</a>

Currently Active Users: 1757 (1628 members and 129 guests)

Threads: 2,031,589, Posts: 42,112,048, Members: 128,293

thats insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

insane!!!!!!!

imagine the server fees :tired:

They offer free pr0n :)

Satan

WHERE?

*roflol*

Damn that's alot!!!!!!!!!!!

But i'd have to go with satan, free porn= attracts alot of people lol. Just look at KirbyDE's response.

Oh and by the way

A dedcated staff and a bit of luck. :)

http://forums.offtopic.com/freepr0n.php?addict=KirbyDE

It reads your mind and displays the pr0n pics you want if you replace KirbyDE with your username here;)

Satan

Gio has anyone ever told you that you use WAY to many "!!!!!!" in a sentence :-D.

~curt

Has anyone ever told u...............................................yea i dont know why i do it!!!!!!

/me shoots Gio with a tranquilizer gun.

That should help :P

XD.

~Curt

With off-topic forums, a helluva lot of luck and advertising.

Noo tranquilisers make him hyper >_<

Satan

above all else: luck, advertising, pron, etc. - it is a great domain name.

It is more than likely one of the best domain names you can buy :p, maybe other than ebay.com xD.



~Curt

xD

how do you think my website is doing and do you think if i continue like this i will be up with with facethejury,gaieonline and offtopic.com xD

been up since feb this year

Threads: 4,567, Posts: 82,354, Members: 9,216

get anywhere from 30-70 members sign up a day xD

i also have a V.I.P membership going which i launched last month... so far i have e 43 V.I.P members... its $6.99 for a vip membership which lasts 3 months

43 vips = $300 wooters...

I'm not a fan of the topic of it but it certainly seems an active community :)

Are you the main forum/site of your genre of site in the running or are there others of similar/bigger size/popularity?

Chris

well the more popular fitness/bodybuilding sites are

bodybuilding.com - (Threads: 514,078, Posts: 6,084,299, Members: 117,609)
elitefitness.com - (Threads: 393,403, Posts: 5,059,805, Members: 102,441)

then you have my site
bodybuildingdungeon.com - (Threads: 4,568, Posts: 82,368, Members: 9,217)

theres no way i can catch up with them, but i went to be up there as the biggest fitness/bodybuiling sites..

i think both sites started in 1995..

You must offer something the other sites do not if you are going to cover the same topic as they do. Find out what the members on their site want and if the owners have refused to do it or are taking forever you might get yourself a few converts.

As always content is king, good content is what reels people in. You hook em with the content and hopfully they sign up on your forum and become a long time member.

thats the thing.. i do have something other sites dont have...

my main attraction is the bbing video clips my site has posted mainly by me and the co-owner.

that section only has 37,113 posts.. as you do have to reply to see the download link..

the Main Discussion Board has 7,802 posts
misc has 7,359 posts
and the adult section has 5,540 posts.

so i do have something others dont which is why bbd.com is gettin so many members.

but i am always looking for new ways to increase membership, and new ideas to make bbd.com a more unique site.

I'll add my site to the list, although our stats for posts is lower because we pruned topics every 90 days. We removed about 20,000 names from our member list for inactivity as well.

extremefitness.com
Threads: 12,027, Posts: 152,187, Members: 70,847

hey MPdev..love your site.

http://www.extremefitness.com/forum/index.php

Pictures of Babes (367 Viewing)

that seems to be your most popular section which isnt bbing/fitness related..have you done anything to make your other sections more active? .. id like to know.

Blame it all on Google - I got a ton of referral traffic from search engines. I even cleared out the POB section entirely just a couple months ago and started from scratch. I've even closed the section down for a week at a time (just last week) because the number is usually 700+ viewing at any given time. "Normal" traffic is around 1,000 users online throughout the day unless I'm blocking the Babes section. That we pruned threads every 90 days for the first 4 or 5 years we were around really make our numbers seem small (except number of registered users); I myself have made over 7,000 posts on the site over the years, I believe. I'd have to total the post count to see how many threads have actually been created (we upgraded to vBulletin about 5 months ago).

Maybe a little history is worthwhile - I am a fitness photographer who also has done adult work. I've brought over 30+ models to the site who post as EF BABES, so we have a mixture of content producers posting content.

Truth is, there are alot of bodybuilding/fitness sites out there and we're all competing for the same group of people; my forums have some good people invovled and a nice community of fitness buffs. Weather it grows or not matters little to me as I enjoy the site as it is.