Please help...no members

[altunozara]

i have tried everythign egtting my friends to register putting it on google buyign adwords advertising all over other sites...nothing works please help! its as if ive wasted my money i ahve no active members...

In my opinion, you need to fix a few things before people will start signing up. The top of your site's kind of a mess man. You have a monster image taking up the top 1/4 of the screen, and your google ad blocks are side by side which is doing all sorts of bad things to your actual forum tables. Check the attachment to see what I mean. The first thing you need to do is get it looking uniform on smaller, non-widescreen resolutions. 800x600 is kind of out the window nowadays, but even at 1280x1024 your site doesn't scale. (see attachment)

Another thing you might want to consider is trimming the number of subforums down a bit until you get more traffic and more posts.

The last thing - just be patient. Get your site looking good and visitors will come. My current site (after running two other sites to the 2M+ post mark) was very slow for quite some time, well over a year. Now I average 250+ online and ~50k posts a month. Stick with it, get the bugs worked out and it'll happen for ya.

at first, you took control of your forum the wrong way around...

adding ads before having a single member is useless... adding a header so big is not interesting for nobody... you have too much forums without having a single post made... do the opposite... minimize your forums so you have some central places and you will expand when needed, find a custom style that look like you want it to look... and submit your site at http://dmoz.org ...

google will not crawl your site if you have nothing on it... this is an intelligent engine, not a dumb blonde.

adding ads before having a single member is useless

Agree 100%. The actual revenue you'll make off a new site with no content will be pennies a day at best. Putting Adsense on your site doesn't get Google to spider you - they use a different agent for adsense spidering. Nexi's right - kill the ads and get a clean looking site that people want to be a part of.

[dismas]

I agree with what's been said but also wanted to add a few points...

Get rid of, or drastically change, the current logo you have. It's hard to read and just doesn't look professional.

Fix whatever is going on with your members list. The usernames aren't lining up with the info for the member.

You have two "Search" links in your navbar.

Your FAQ link is broken.

And you say that you can't get anyone to sign up, yet your stats say that you have over 1000 members. Cheating the stats, are you?

If you need inspiration for a skin that kicks all sorts of ass, look at dismas's signature.

[Boofo]

Now that is the kind of skin I need. Chris, whip one up for me.

[altunozara]

thanks so much guys. Ok a few things. I have a great logo and i want to put it right above the navbar...how do i put it there?

2 ive had that navbar problem for quite some time...any indication on how to fix it?

3. Should i keep stuff liek psp ps3 and stuff or should i start out with something like just mmorpgs...which will meen itl start with a theme and ppl when they come il increase it...though that means all the forums will be gone lol

4.what should be in faq

5. the problem is noone is visiting my site. No guests so when this is all fixed how will i get members? Ive done everything. Ive submitted it everywhere and i even have adwords goin.

[NeuroLancer]

To answer your questions,


1 your logo already is above the navbar?

2 ask for help in appropriate forum, you probably just need to edit the template and remove a double instance of the link, although the rpg drop down doesnt seem to be working. If you cant fix it and you know its broken, Seek Help! People here wont bite... hard

3 Have One or Two forums for gaming and branch out later.

4 faq needs to be done after you restructure the forums & categories

5 no one will be pulled in to joining you because your site is very plain, seeing as you've spent money already, why not try one of the free skins here first and see what happens? Make it a good one though.



Here are some more suggestions:

Ultimate Talk Forum:
-Announcements
-Development
--Forum Progress
--Technical Support
--Suggestions & Feedback

Gaming Forum:
-Gaming Discussion
-Arcade

General:
-General Chat
-Fun Stuff
-Computing
-Avatars / Sigs

Short and sweet is better for small boards. The above is just a suggestion/example.

[altunozara]

in gaming discussion would i ahve all psp, ps3 etc stuff? like child forums

also i dont meen obove the navbar where it was i meen whre it sais like how many emails u have between there and where it sais Ultimate Talkk forums...how can i do this