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[Jan4Jam]

Good morning all


For those of you out there that have constant traffic or have been running your site or group for some years is there some advice you can give me to get more noticed I run a mental health and wellness site I was very successful and had a lot of traffic 3 years ago with my old group maybe 5 years now yea I had it for 7 years but had to shut it down due to my web developer leaving me I have now  created one here and I like it much better.


But I did run some google Ads, and etc but have not had much luck with new members is there anything anyone may suggest?


Thank you for your time

Jan have a good day all

[Star's Legacy]

For your case since you do not run a role play forum sososwapping swapping advertisements with other sites, which are predominantly role play sites that do this, would not benefit you that much. If you haven't done so you can list an ad for your site here on Proboards Support. I would recommend looking at other general topic or other sites that share common themes with yours and see if you can be affiliates with one another. Affiliates have a button/image that when clicked brings you to your website and these are displayed for others to see on forums. I would also suggest going to facebook to spread the word of your forum and perhaps even create a facebook group so that you get your name out there. I hope this helps! ^^

[Kami]

Exchanging links with sites outside your genre is not necessarily a bad thing; it increases your link visibility which increases the amount of times indexing bots can crawl your forum, which in turn increases your SEO ranking.

Additionally, say I had a forum for RPing and affiliated with a lizard-keeping forum. Perhaps a lizard owner who hadn't considered RPing sees my affiliate and decides to check my site out. Or the reverse: perhaps a lizard owner on my forum didn't realise that there was a forum for lizard ownership and joins the lizard forum.

Provided that you follow each site's affiliation rule, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't exchange affiliates outside of your genre / with RP sites. There are also plenty of general chat and non-RP forums that participate in affiliate exchanges.

You may also, Jan4Jam, consider putting a link to your forum with a small description of your topic in your signature here on support. This will also increase the chances for bots to crawl your forum as mentioned before, especially since Support is so active. Plus, when you post, others can see where your forum is and what it's about. The advertising threads that Star's Legacy mentioned would also be a good move.

Social Media is always a good idea IF you have the time and dedication to actually run your social media accounts. If you don't, then it's going to just wind up being a dead, inactive link and that can hurt more than help. If the facebook page (or twitter account, or whatever) is inactive, that will not give people incentive to visit the site link.

[zimcat]

What is the link to your site Jan4Jam ? I'm interested

[Tumbleweed]

Apr 22, 2017 16:11:03 GMT -8 zimcat said:

What is the link to your site Jan4Jam ? I'm interested

Exchanging of links or asking for a link should be done via pm. 

[Tanya]

Looks like several suggestions have already been made and a couple of those I'll certainly do once I get my own forum how I want it but that is another topic altogether. Both Kami and Star offered good ideas so I'll take a couple of them a little further.

Your sig is one of the easiest ways to gain members/guests to your forum. Many people will click a link just out of curiosity but those you want will click quicker if a short description is given along with it. One sentence usually does the trick. The more forums you are part of, the more advertising that sig will give you. (platform of said forums doesn't matter when it comes to this) Just make sure it's allowed. Some forums don't allow for sig advertising. No clue why though.

As for Affiliates, I never did learn how the whole button thing worked but I do love the look of going on forums and seeing it. There are other ways Affiliates work as well. Some forums use a thread for advertising. Some use a webpage on their forum that works like the affiliates button but w/o the actual button. 'Most' general topic forums allow one or more of those. Going outside of your theme/interest topic is allowed a lot of places. I believe the one request most those places ask is that you allow the same for them as they allowed for you. (an easy request to fill really) As Kami said, there are often rules for this. Always read those so you know what is expected or if its even allowed.

Sharing your forum with social media can be a headache and that doesn't change even if you have a lot of time on your hands. Facebook is good if you have a lot of friends or at least have an active account. Twitter is great even if your own twitter is a dead end because you can get others to tweet for you who are active and that applies even with google and other places. (Sorry Kami, just taking what you said and running it another way) Knowing people works in your favor. I advertise for friends at least a few times a week on twitter. You gain guests far too frequently at times but once in awhile, someone decides to join. Those who tend to hang out in the social media areas of the net don't usually mind advertising for others. Just gotta mention the need for help in that regard pretty much anywhere you go. Like life outside the net, it is a tit for tat world out there but don't be surprised when people help out without wanting anything in return. It happens.

I don't know much about RP sites so no comment there.

Other than that, the rest of what was mentioned is good too. Make use of it all. You'll get what you need and hopefully more too.