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03-02-2009, 04:35 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 65
|  How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
ok, i created my forum yesterday, and i want to know how i can get posters on it, its a health forum, im trying to look for free ways if possible since i havent got any money left, so is there actually a free and effective way to get posters onto my forum? | 
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03-02-2009, 06:33 PM
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Theg Ame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxfordshire, UK, waving our red white and blue. Posts: 1,970
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
There's a lot of ways... you can probably find guides around the internet.
Here's a few off the top of my head:
banner ads for people to put in their sigs
telling friends to tell friends
advertise in forums
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03-03-2009, 12:49 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 6,063
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
Submit your site to search engines so their spiders/bots creep your forum to index it.
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03-03-2009, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,728
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
SEO, Search Engine Optimization.
Check out how to do that and get your site submitted to Google, Live Search and Yahoo.
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03-06-2009, 06:35 AM
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Hiphopapotamus. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Location: Posts: 61,784 Posts: 546
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
Giving us a link might help too...
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03-08-2009, 11:35 AM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,425
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
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Originally Posted by carnageX  Submit your site to search engines so their spiders/bots creep your forum to index it. | How to Submit Your Site To Top 66 Search Engines | eHow.com | |
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03-08-2009, 11:38 AM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,314
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
^66? the only ones people would go to are google,yahoo, and ask.....the others are so minimal in comparison. I'd just stick with those, no sense in wasting effort.
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03-08-2009, 11:45 AM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,425
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
more links on more relevant sites will boost site / page ranking
plus its a program that does it for you, so why not? more exposure.
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03-08-2009, 06:06 PM
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FPS Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fonthill, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,314
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plus its a program that does it for you, so why not? more exposure.
| Thats cool, did not know that,,,, might as well then...
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03-21-2009, 12:54 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 12
| Re: How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)
There is definitely no need to submit to 66 search engines. Actually there really isn't a need anymore to submit to any of the search engines because your site will get indexed and crawled as soon as you get it a few backlinks. | |
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