Well, many people out there find it hard and struggle to get their forums going. This leads to fustration and the closing of the forum, eventhough knowbody had even heard of it. Or.. very little. The aim is to stick at it. I know it gets you down, but you really do have to keep at it. People that create a forum sometimes expect it to get highly populated within the first couple of weeks to a month. This is not the case. Some popular forums take years to get the amount of views they have. Some warez forums for example. These are great forums mind you and get many users anyway, just for what they are. But they have to stick at it to get there 200,000 to 500,000 visitors a day. I mean i get an average of around 20-30 people on my blog. I still keep going, as one day my blog could get bigger and bigger, money could be made and so on.
So, you are here for a small trick? Well, if you are a webmaster, and are trying to get a forum going here it is.
You will need:
- Hosting, of course. Free or paid. Many people do tend to prefer paid though.
- A forum software. VBulletin, myBB, PHPBB, IPB, SMF etc etc and so forth. There are more!
- Once installed, turn off acitivation by email. You will see why later on.
Now to get started. In some forum softwares, you can just keep adding users thought the admin panel. If you have this choice. Add around 10 new users. Have each username with the same password. But keep the usernames no way in related to eachother. This then makes them look legit. Either get your friends to help you, or you do it yourself. This is time consuming i must say, but once your done and started getting menbers rolling in you wont be complaining. On the other hand, those who do not have the option to add users through the admin panel, you will have to do it manually by registering each user. (Now you see why i told you to turn off activation by email.).
Once you have done this, create a few new topics with that username. Change username, and do the same.
If you create around 4 threads per topic per username. Thats 4 x 10 in one topic. Which is 40. Then x that by however many topics you have. It is ideal to start with only a few topics at the beginning. Else you will be here all day. Create main topics such as. (If its a warez forum).
Downloads
- Apps
- Music
- Videos
- Ebooks
Now, you have used each username to post around 4 new threads in each topic. Like i said before, 40 in each. 4 topics. 40x4=160. Thats 160 posts all together so far. From those 10(fake) users.
Now you just need log in to a username, and comment on random ones. Don't comment on a thread that was made by the same username of course. So if a topic was in appz, called mIRC cracked download by Jim. Go to one say, called, Milner and comment something simple, like Thankyou for this download. Been looking for it!
Do this once again with each 10 users (so make a conversation between those 10 fake users). This then makes the new comers, who then register think, wow this forum is popular (or active) and register. They then join in, tell their friends. More people also come from google etc.
If you get 5 new comers. They tell 5 of their friends each. Then you get 25 new comers. Those 25 people tell 5 friends each. Yeah.. you get the idea ;).
That is pretty much the basic way of (making) people think you forum is active. Making them want to join in.
Okay, one more simple say and them im out of here. My fingers ake :P.
This one is easier, say you have or are trying to make a programming forum. The best thing to do is offer new programs. A program that would normally cost. Or something. Say.. even something like a universal keygen for as many apps as you can do it for. Or maybe get an irc channel and start doing lectures. Ram pack your forums with brand new articles, source code etc and people will just not resist temptation to join and read more. Give them something to look forward too ;).
Okay, well. Peace out!
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