I have a hard time getting my forum more popular my site has got over 7000 unique a day .

I can't figure it out .

Please advise .

Thanks

If you get 7000 uniques a day but nobody is participating or joining, it sounds like there is something wrong with the concept of the forum itself. Where is the traffic coming from? Is the traffic targetted?

I might help to review this thread about making your forum more popular.

The Traffic is comming from all diferend site but ist movie targeted . My forum is also Movie targeted aren't there enough topics or what is wrong ?

Please advise .

I will read that thread also .

Thanks

please can we see the forum link

www.trailerdownload.net/forum

Thanks

I forgot to tell you can even make an dvd collection on my forum

Right here is my veiws

i would change the colour of the header as the links dont show very well for the register link

put the login section at the top

show at the bottom how many people are registerd with the forum as this does help with some people as people dont like to register to forums that there not sure there going to get a reply on also if you can i would add the table line back to the middle of each thread on the forums just to make it look less like a list

i just registerd and it all worked fine to me as i thought it could be a problem with the register section or something

also maybe adding more text to every thread under the links to them

well hope that has helped in some way the trick with forums is no one like to be the first to post so the more you make them bussy the better they will become i think forums are probly one of the hardest kind of websites to get going

I think your forum header looks empty. You should add attractive and effective pic and slogan. Logo is nice however. And as man suggests you should add members statistics in the footer section of forum to get clear picture of forum activeness.
Your forum should be targeted to your business niche or target market. The niche area you target is the principle reason for success and the every single section you create for your community must clearly represent the purpose of your community. As the owner you must keep contributing to posts, creation of new topics and try to stimulate conversation. It will surely helpful to you to build traffic to your forum.

If you pay people to post for you what is a good model to keep you on ( how many by post/topic ect?

Originally Posted by Trailerdownload

If you pay people to post for you what is a good model to keep you on ( how many by post/topic ect?

IMO paying to people to post in a forum is not at all a good idea mainly because once people get used to this sort of strategy they would want more and they won't post in your forum nor will they start a new thread until you offer them some kind of a monetary incentive.
You may try to introduce such offer for a referral program which might be useful. You should offer incentives for a particular number of posts in your forum like giving them a trial product, offering a little free advertising, giving them a link on the main page, allowing them to post their website in the main forum, etc.
You can also start a reward store in the forum where in order to purchase store items members need points and they must post to receive points.

Oke i made some changes i even made a contest but it isn't helping much .

Is it the forum then ?

Help me out

I noticed at the very bottom of the forum is your most popular topic, Movie comments. If it were my forum I would put that at the very top for one then I would add more comment topics about the latest movies.

For instance:

Saw 2
King Kong etc.

Just an Idea,

Dale.

I don't think your websites subject matter would be popular for a forum

you have an empty forum. You need THREADS. Start 20-30 new threads a day and keep it up for some time. Then you'll have people come and post. You can try some post exchanges too. this might also help.

I just launced a webmaster forum yesterday, and I have only 8 members so far. I'm happy it is only an extension of my site, and not the entire site. I think that would be more difficult to get off the ground. I would start off a bunch of threads to get viewers interested in replying. It seems to be working so far.

It took me a few minutes to find the register button Make that bigger

You need a new forum skin. That one really doesn't tie in with your site.

If visitors see topics, posts and discussions they are interested in; they are more likely to contribute. If your forum is not that active; visitors may not even bother to register.
Here are few tips to make forum popular : -
- I thik you should start with a few categories and then when you get a decent amount of traffic you can add a few more.
- As the owner you must keep contributing to your forum by creating new topics and articles. You should make a routine of making a few posts everyday.
- You should invite your friends to visit your forum and ask them to join and make a few posts too.