Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Mar 30, 2007 23:43:45 GMT -5
* Affiliates - Contrary to popular belief, affiliates do work. I and many others received members from affiliates from other forums.
It is also not a good idea to only affiliate with boards of the same genre, For example, if you own a Harry Potter forum, why only affiliate with other Harry Potter forums. Those people who will be seeing your banner already have a place to discuss Harry Potter. I have found it best to affiliate with all kinds of different sites. for example, if a HP forum affiliates with a sports forum, then a member of the sports forum may also like Harry Potter, and may not have a place to discuss Harry Potter. So don't restrict your affiliates to your own genre, affiliate with all types of forums.
* Search Engines Google, among other has greatly benefited my forum as far as receiving members. Google adds ProBoards automatically, but it doesn't hurt to submit your forum manually. Here is a list to manually add your forum to multiple search engines:
www.google.com/addurl.html
* Submit Your Site To Yahoo submit.search.yahoo.com/
* Add Me.com www.addme.com/
* Free Web Promotion.com www.freewebpromotion.com/
* Free Internet Promotion www.jewelrymall.com/freeresources.html
* Free Web Site Promotion Tutorial www.apromotionguide.com/
Note: As with any service on the Internet, please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each and any service you use.
I have added my forum to each of these, and have received a lot of members as a result. but remember, as the other threads discuss, getting people there is the first step. Keeping them there is a whole new discussion that can be found in those threads. This thread is focusing on how to advertise your ProBoard.
* META TAGs - a lot of people will tell you that META TAGs are a waste of time, and that most major search engines no longer use them. However, smaller search engines do use them and they cannot hurt. I use META tags on my forum, and search my keywords and find my site, so META Tags do work.
Below I will post an example of how a graphics forum may set up their META tags. This will go in the bottom of your headers:
It is also not a good idea to only affiliate with boards of the same genre, For example, if you own a Harry Potter forum, why only affiliate with other Harry Potter forums. Those people who will be seeing your banner already have a place to discuss Harry Potter. I have found it best to affiliate with all kinds of different sites. for example, if a HP forum affiliates with a sports forum, then a member of the sports forum may also like Harry Potter, and may not have a place to discuss Harry Potter. So don't restrict your affiliates to your own genre, affiliate with all types of forums.
* Search Engines Google, among other has greatly benefited my forum as far as receiving members. Google adds ProBoards automatically, but it doesn't hurt to submit your forum manually. Here is a list to manually add your forum to multiple search engines:
www.google.com/addurl.html
* Submit Your Site To Yahoo submit.search.yahoo.com/
* Add Me.com www.addme.com/
* Free Web Promotion.com www.freewebpromotion.com/
* Free Internet Promotion www.jewelrymall.com/freeresources.html
* Free Web Site Promotion Tutorial www.apromotionguide.com/
Note: As with any service on the Internet, please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each and any service you use.
I have added my forum to each of these, and have received a lot of members as a result. but remember, as the other threads discuss, getting people there is the first step. Keeping them there is a whole new discussion that can be found in those threads. This thread is focusing on how to advertise your ProBoard.
* META TAGs - a lot of people will tell you that META TAGs are a waste of time, and that most major search engines no longer use them. However, smaller search engines do use them and they cannot hurt. I use META tags on my forum, and search my keywords and find my site, so META Tags do work.
Below I will post an example of how a graphics forum may set up their META tags. This will go in the bottom of your headers: