Need help growing forum..?

[blindman4556]

okay so yea my forum has been kind of slow lately and just wanted to get some feedback and maybe a guide on how to get these forums growing.. please give me some feedback or some insight of things that are positive and things that may be negative about it. thanks..

http://www.likenota.com

[SEOvB]

try to increase your traffic, and converting your welcome header into a spiffier image may help some as well

[dismas]

I'm personally rather turned off by any site that forces me to click on a logo or whatever just to get into the site. If I go to a home page, I want to be presented with info about the site and its subject matter. I don't want to have to click yet another link just to get to what I'm looking for.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Moved to Community Reviews.

[blindman4556]

Originally Posted by FRDS

try to increase your traffic, and converting your welcome header into a spiffier image may help some as well

as in the welcome guest message?



hmm i should probably get a homepage then huh? thanks for your guy's feedback. it would be nice to get more. and yes traffic is an issue its kind of hard to get trafffic, i went out and got vbseo and still dont see much improvement.

Originally Posted by dismas

I'm personally rather turned off by any site that forces me to click on a logo or whatever just to get into the site. If I go to a home page, I want to be presented with info about the site and its subject matter. I don't want to have to click yet another link just to get to what I'm looking for.

Same here.

[blindman4556]

Bo0m hows that... http://www.likenota.com or heres wip frontpage http://www.likenota.com/forums/Tutorials.php

[blindman4556]

bump

[DiverTree]

i like it

the colors are attractive, the red a little hard to read but anybody interesited in the content would deal with that.

you might concider getting rid of the top 15 stats, or at least turning it off for guests. its showing that a whole day went by without a post, and that one person is posting about fifty percent of the content. imo, that would be a reason for me to look for a different forum. couple that with the "0 members - 30 guests - 5 bots" at 11 in the morning, and it might be somthing you want to hide until the board has been established.

one usergroup for members is kinda swamped by all the administrative usergroups. doesnt give much incintive for the newbie to move up through the ranks, unless (im guessing) they pay for a "vip" membership.

ohh ... and dream has a cool spider list that you can use to identify more of those 255 guests that have visited in the past 24 hours. hers the link if your interested. Dream's Spider List

im not into advertisments, but the one you have looks kinda cool. id deal with it until i decided to register. thats on your upscale skin that i assume is default. the adds on your aqua skin are a major turn off ... but thats just me. im definatly not a professional or a develeper or designer ... just a boardie.

i was tempted to post in your guest forum.

looks like you just have to build your memberbase. good luck to you

[blindman4556]

thank you for the feedback i will definitly make changes! and yes do you mind making a post in the guestbook? im not sure if it actually works quite yet but it would be nice to get some posts from guests.. anyways ill be workin on it. thanks again.