Words of advice to get a forum going strong?

[thuffner]

Hi. I was just wondering if the people with the bigger forums and thousands of members can give some advice as to how you got your forums so popular/visited.

I have a board on my site. It's only got several loyal members who come on and chat a lot. here is the URL:
http://www.bondmovies.com/board

I really want to get a lot of people to start discussing, but don't know why more don't sign up.

So, do you have any tips/tricks of the trade that you found worked best for you in building your forum?

Thanks a lot.

[RDX1]

I like your forum layout, but there is too much black.

Your forum has only been up for a few weeks, it takes a long time and hard work, my tech forum has been up a year (In two days) and i only get a topic every month

My sex forum has been up for a few weeks, but it only has around 450 posts.


Give it some time, you have a unique topic, so advertise it, submit it to search engines and wait

[thuffner]

Thanks for the feedback. I guess I am a little impatient. I am just so excited to get a board going!

(On a side note: I took away some black from the board. Is that any better? Or should I include a totally new color altogether?)

Anyone want to tell a success story about their board?

[RDX1]

You are doing very good so far. I still think the colors need tweaking.

[sabret00the]

you need to spam it, run competitions and stuff, i'm currently in the middle of a drive for 1000 members so i could do with tips, once you got a community buzzing it will attract members on it's own, keep the faith (Y)

[majin gotenks]

Getting spammers is important

[Tony G]

Sig advertising, adding it to search engines, stuff like that. Might not look like it's very effective but over time it builds up.

[thuffner]

Getting spammers? What's that?

[amykhar]

You have a very specific subject which makes you luckier than many who just start forums on every subject under the sun.

One thing I would suggest would be to find other Bond websites that don't have forums and ask them to link to you and you link back to them.

Get in a Bond webring too if you can. You need people to see your site. Make sure you get it indexed by google and above all make sure your content is relevant and unique.

Amy

[wooolF[RM]]

affiliates is a good idea. my forum affiliated with about 20-25 others where 5-6 are working tight together. I'm getting at least 200 new members every day, sometimes over 300 a day... that's w/o any advertizing at all