How do I get people to join and visit my message forum?
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Your forum doesn't seem to have any focus. General message forums are mostly for groups of people who already know each other and just want another way to communicate. Try focusing on a particular topic to find fans of a certain celebrity or activity. That way more people might get interested.
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Sounds like you are a candidate for either phpBB, a popular open-source forum management system or Blogger.\n\nWhile both are primarly message-oriented systems, phpBB is more geared towards a community while Blogger is more of a blogging system that can be adapted for content management.\n\nBoth of them offer plugins that allow for subscriptions.\n\nGood luck!
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Go to Whosonmypage.com & sign up !! Get others to sign up too.
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try visiting some online forum.Try out the members area you find plenty.
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Join message boards that cater to your ideal demographic and just ask them to check out your blog.  Also, make sure your blog is good enough to make people return to it.  Also, have other bloggers link your page to theirs (and vice versa)...that's how I discovered my favorite blogs.
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not everone who visits will comment, but it should tell you how many people have viewed the site. the easy way to connect to more people is to go to a friends page click on a picture eother of someone who left a comment or a friend that'll take you to that persons site leave a comment or hit add or both, then click one of their friends you can go for hours that way and generate some interest then word of mouth and recommends from your peeps will take care of the rest. you're doing great!
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Some forums allow you to send a private message to the host. If your forum allows that, then you could try it and see if they respond.
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Go to this forum and post to ask for an invitation...
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Try to ask it in a forum...
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you have options.\nyou can host your own using free good stuff like phpbb (google it)\nor you can get it hosted for you http://forumsplace.com/
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Get Messenger\n\nGo to the chat rooms there, they are organized by location.
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1.try yahoo public chat\n2.Use other messengers like ICQ,MIRC etc..
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I paid a visit today, to see what your site is all about. Hmm..it's not a web site after all but a forum instead. You have to understand, a forum is a place for communities - one of the hardest part is to attract visitors & indirectly persuade them to become a member. Not just a member but an active member.\n\n"So, what's your forum all about? I don't know. I can't figure it out myself". Maybe this is one of the most visitors asking themselves. I took a deeper look, weighing the topics and issues. What did I find? To be honest, I've been wondering there. Where should I go?\n\nTo have a successful forum, you have to be specific. Concentrate on 3-4 issues at first. Stick to the topic until the relevant division matured. Don't just jump into unrelated topics. That won't bring you any good after all.\n\nInvite as many friends as possible. They are your excellent tool to help boosting your forum popularity. Request their help to spread the news. Give certain rank to those pioneers - something like moderators, senior mod, regional mod etc. This will make them happy.\n\nWhy..What color are you using? BLACK! Believe it or not, psychologically, most people don't prefer to spend time reading white text for long. Also, dark background will not bring up the mood. Remember that. You want them to be happy in your forum - so create the mood for them. Something preferable by you doesn't mean it suits everyone.\n\nBe specific of what your forum is all about. Games? Money making opportunities? Blog? Whatever it is, describe it clearly in the header. You must let your visitors know, at a glance, what is your forum related to. Remember, a forum needs to be self-describing; not vice-versa.\n\nThe most effective way to attract more visitors to your forum is to contact webmasters who share the same topics like yours. Request a link politely and explain why it would benefit them of having a link exchange with you. Man, your way is long ahead. Just don't give up.\n\nHope this helps.
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try myspace.com set it up in there and hit people up. lots of people are doing it
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Here's a few ways I gain visitors:\n\nWrite articles and submit them to article directories, with a link to my site in the resource box\n\nWrite in my blog, then ping it with pingoat\n\nForum posting, with a link to my site in my signature file
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Start a Yahoo Group.   They are well connected to Yahoo. \n\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/start
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If you hope to get a load of returning visitors, you have to have content that poeple like and tell their friends about, and keep updating it with new things that make people want to keep going to it,  and it's gotta look good. \n\n The better looking, the more people want to be affiliated with it.  Also, make friends, and share links.  Join web rings, give the links to your friends who are interested,   and  an interactive element like a message board, or such, will (if handled correctly) keep people coming back.\n\n\n    \n1. Link to other pages,  and  have them link to you. \n2  Use relevant  META tags for keywords and description\n 3. Submit the site to:  =   http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/\n        Add your URL to google =         http://www.google.com/addurl.html                 \n                                  \n   4.  Announce your website in many online forums. \n5.  Register your url with google and as many other search engines as possible. \n6.  Update your site often  to have repeat visistors. \n7.  Add your url  in your email  signature. \n8.  Do a search on google, then at the bottom of  the page is "Disatisfied with results? Help us improve" link. Just fill out the info. and the spiders will go to your site.\n9.  Add your url  to your business card and  pass them out.\n\n10.  Put a link in your  signatues so that every email/post you make will be seen by search engine bots and taken into account. Be sure that it's properly labeled  "+18 Warning"  if the link goes to adult material. \n\n   \n Add it here = http://dmoz.org\n\n  http://www.selfpromotion.com\n\nhttp://www.google.com/webmasters\n\nhttp://www.google.com/ads\n          http://www.google.com/addurl.html \nhttp://camtech2000.net/Pages/submit.html   \n         http://www.itools.com/internet/     \n              http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Submit/    \n        http://www.isubmit.com/      \n          http://www.irnis.net/soft/golden/ \n         http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/26488    \n                   http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.php