Large Site... Tiny Community :-(
 

I'm running a fairly large tech site at the moment, and I usually have about 20-70 users "online" at any point... but they are all guests!

I'd really like to get my forums active, but I just don't know how :( I've been trying for over a year, to no avail!

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to build up the community? We have some excellent mods there, and we always get questions answered, but we just can't convert the visitors or even registering members to post :(

I'm guessing it's just because there are so many other sites like yours (random PC talk). It's hard to compete with that.

Possibly, but I get so many users registering that I thought some would at least post. 4000 Registered, 10 active :)

Yeah, filburt was right on...what you need to do is offer something that your competition doesn't have. Give people a good reason to register, something that will make them want to join, and most importantly post.

Members: 3,917, Threads: 1,084, Posts: 4,557

Those stats are somewhat odd...you're one step ahead though, because you already have the traffic. Start 'advertising' your forums on the site more, saying it's a great way to discuss etc. etc. Just plug it it a lot on the site.

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That's going to get him traffic, but not posts. :)

or modeling the reviews and products :)

Damn, you have about 3,000 more members than my forums, and we have about 60,000 more posts.

make the registration easier, its a bottleneck for alot users to go ''again'' trough a registration form (because there are tons of other pc-talk site's)

and try to get a few discussions in every forum. organise a few competitions make special benefits for users with a large number of posts things like that should make ur forums (hopefully) active