New Forum - Need Suggestions on Gaining Visitors

What techniques helped you?

[wfernley]

I create a forums back in March and I am looking to increase the amount of posts and visitors on my site. I was curious if anyone here had any good techniques that worked in building the success of your forum.

Thanks :)

Wes

[Gargen]

[webmasterworld.com ]

everyone goes through this stage but in that post i detail how to speed up that beigining very few joins and very few post, it made me go from 2 or 3 posts a day to 50-80 posts a day

[wfernley]

Thanks Gargen for your post. I'm not sure your tactic would work for the market that my website is in. I'm glad to hear it worked for you though :)

[rogerd]

Hi, wfernley, try the Community Building Library [webmasterworld.com] for some good threads on jump-starting a new community, getting lurkers to post, etc. One thread that may be particularly useful is Starting a Web Community [webmasterworld.com].

[Gargen]

Well the point is whenyou begin offering people something merchandise, money, or whatever

[wfernley]

Thanks rogerd I will check those posts out.