Comments on: How to kick life into a stale forum

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:23:03 +0000

Chris – Definitely. It is always worth testing out how mature your community is by seeing how it gets on without you from time to time. However it is important to remain attentive and ensure you jump right back in if interest and interaction wanes without your involvement.

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:08:40 +0000

Another way to kick life into a stale forum is to become more active on it.

I’ve noticed that one of my main forums started losing members because I wasn’t posting as frequently and providing site updates. While staff members were still posting content I noticed a direct correlation to the day I started being more active and the the time the traffic started to turn around.

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:13:38 +0000

Chris - That's a great tactic, and one I often use over at Soap Forum. When a new user joins and introduces themselves, I often ask them what their favourite soap is. Questions encourage interaction, and that is just what a forum relies on!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:40 +0000

one tip is to always respond with questions… if someone posts about how life is going well in a new city, don’t just say “oh, cool. glad to hear it”.

Say, “oh, cool… so what part are you in?” etc etc.

Do anything you can to keep people posting, responding and interacting.

By: Weekend Links 08/17

Weekend Links 08/17 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:55:41 +0000

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By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:19:19 +0000

CarTitans - I have never used them myself. Back in March I wrote an article about my opinion of paid forum posters; feel free to take a read.

By: CarTitans

CarTitans — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:55:01 +0000

Did you ever use paid forum postings or even paid chat? I’ve heard about it from several SEo companies… what do you think?

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:35:52 +0000

Smiley – You should definitely dedicate the time needed to maintain the momentum your site seems to be gaining. Keep creating content, keep your members happy and keep up the hard work!

By: Smiley

Smiley — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:25:40 +0000

I agree.

I’m going to have to pull my recent application to join back at JC.

My site’s only just taken off this past few days for some reason. I don’t know why but people keep finding me through Yahoo, I’ve been having trouble keeping up with the boards as I haven’t been spending as much time on the net lately.

Now I sit in my room all night and always on the boards, hoping to keep the momentum going, and now people are finding the chat, I need to be there to keep ‘em chatting until the other regs enter or another new person.

So I’ve left other sites now. Time just to dedicate myself to all the hard work I’ve already put in.