I make a very high point of doing this. In the last 8 days I have gone from no vbulletin installed, to vbulletin installed with hundreds of members and thousands of posts. More than 50% of the users are very active every day, supplying content for me to push to front page as news, which gets more in.
I have one forum area that is members only that gets people in and I PM every new user to get them to go and post an "introduction" about them. A number of the current memebers and myself then go and say "hi" on their intro thread and make them feel like a part of the site straight off the bat. Keeps them coming back!
Also, the arcade is a great mod to use too
When you have hundreds of new members a day, the pm welcome mod is a great addition!
Enero 11, 2007 422
Enero 12, 2007 464
Enero 13, 2007 365
Enero 14, 2007 362
Enero 15, 2007 411
Enero 16, 2007 456
Enero 17, 2007 382
Enero 18, 2007 377
Enero 19, 2007 367
Enero 20, 2007 341
Enero 21, 2007 349
Enero 23, 2007 425
Total today, 221.000 ++ registered users in two years online.
BTW about that welcome PM, I think it would be better to send them a PM within an hour of registering. It is so blatantly obvious that it is automated when you get it the instant you register.
BTW about that welcome PM, I think it would be better to send them a PM within an hour of registering. It is so blatantly obvious that it is automated when you get it the instant you register.
Would the cron job just be modified, or would something else need to be modified?
I'm pretty sure it is sent out instantly, so you would have to queue them up and send them via cron instead. I won't go into detail how to do it... just an idea
Enero 01, 2007 564
Enero 02, 2007 815
Enero 03, 2007 781
Enero 04, 2007 749
Enero 05, 2007 785
Enero 06, 2007 667
Enero 07, 2007 720
Enero 08, 2007 797
Enero 09, 2007 766
Enero 10, 2007 756
Enero 11, 2007 694
Enero 12, 2007 646
Enero 13, 2007 651
Enero 14, 2007 628
Enero 15, 2007 719
Enero 16, 2007 686
Enero 17, 2007 573
Enero 18, 2007 694
Enero 19, 2007 603
Enero 20, 2007 789
Enero 21, 2007 842
Enero 22, 2007 607
Enero 23, 2007 762
Enero 24, 2007 841
Enero 25, 2007 798
Enero 26, 2007 858
Enero 27, 2007 821
Right now we're getting more than ever, averaging about 5 new members a week. But most are coming over from 3 other forums because of a new game we are starting this season which one of the regular members from the other forums who created this game has decided to bring to our forum. So once they all join it'll probably slow down a bit again. Also it's not F1 racing season so I am expecting a surge of new registrations when the season starts.
I've submitted my URL to Google etc, but haven't really done anything else to optimize the site for the search engines. I still have alot to learn about that. As a few mentioned earlier in this thread, I'm not interested in how many members join a day or how many members I have, I'm most interested in having many active members, providing a community which they don't wanna leave is key.
Been running the site less than a month and about the hit the 1000 member mark
Most the users are very active, there are posts every few mins of every day. There are members that do most my news hunting and they produce content that I can push to the front page meaning all I have to do is watch for spam and approve pictures etc every day or so.
Am now looking to get money back out of it to start saving for the impending server costs