making my site more popular..

[mikeinjersey]

I run a mediocre popular video game site...and I get decent of traffic a day and about 15 new registrations a day. (good ones...not spammers)

I have a decent amount of dedicated , loyal members that do most of the posting....about 100 of those kinds of members.

But most people just register and dont post. Why are so many people like this ? Its been like this for years. People just register and do nothing.. are your forums like this too?

Our forums have been around for 6 years.. we have 15,000 members...500,000 posts. But only like a 100 members are active a day. (about 750 different members are active a month)

I have the Arcade mod installed, a nice simple layout with good design. Easy navigation. latest version of VB installed. And a cool, mellow crowd.

What could I add to make my site more popular ? whether its mod wise or just general recommendations. Its been driving me nuts for the last couple years my forums have remained at medium traffic forever it seems.. I just want it to burst through like a volcano but dont know what im missing.

Any tips or recommendations ?

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[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by mikeinjersey

But most people just register and dont post. Why are so many people like this ? Its been like this for years. People just register and do nothing.. are your forums like this too?

I guess their birthday is 1st jan 1980

May be spam bots. I check each one of mine and delete about 10 -15 a day, I use the is bot mod and that stops 99.99% of spam bots, its great

You could do a mass email and warn members that unless they contribute their dormant account will be deleted, then you prune from your admin cp all new members that have not bothered posting.

That should give you a more manageable size forum and then all you need to do is to moviate those existing members.

have you done any competitions lately?? Perhaps do something together for charity.

Years ago i took part in a forum charity type thing called "Double your Money", where You do an I.O.U to your members of say $10, The members with their $10 have to do something to Double their money, so one guy i knew started to wash his friends cars for $5 a time, He made $65 in a weekend, Less the $10 for your IOU, He paypaled $55 to the site admin, for the charity thing they were doing.

so thats a good one if you can talk your members to actually get off their PC and Do something

Get members to Donate something and have a "LIVE" auction in a shoutbox or chatroom on site, everyone loves a good auction

Theres loads of stuff to do for fun or charity, you just need to think of a few

Good Luck :up:

[mikeinjersey]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

have you done any competitions lately?? Perhaps do something together for charity.

Years ago i took part in a forum charity type thing called "Double your Money", where You do an I.O.U to your members of say $10, The members with their $10 have to do something to Double their money, so one guy i knew started to wash his friends cars for $5 a time, He made $65 in a weekend, Less the $10 for your IOU, He paypaled $55 to the site admin, for the charity thing they were doing.

so thats a good one if you can talk your members to actually get off their PC and Do something

Get members to Donate something and have a "LIVE" auction in a shoutbox or chatroom on site, everyone loves a good auction

Theres loads of stuff to do for fun or charity, you just need to think of a few

Good Luck :up:

Your idea is closest to what i've been thinking about.

I wanted to implement a sweepstakes type thing where money or prizes would be given out once a week or once a month to registered members...no signup fee required. All they have to do is be a member that posts on the forum. But there always seems to be legal crap with sweepstakes. especially here in the u.s.

so yeah, I wanna do the sweepstakes thing but dont know the right way to go about it...wish there was a Mod for this ?!? maybe an idea for someone..