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Old 08-04-2007, 03:11 AM How many users for a forum?
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Could anyone with experience in this kind of thing tell me.. How many visitors do you think a site needs before it could have a good a forum? I'm asking because my site is getting 100 unique visitors a day, but last week I made a forum and not 1 person signed up or posted anything ! So I took it down. Should I wait until I get like 1000 a day ?? Goodbye and thanks to all who have answered my questions in the past !
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Old 08-04-2007, 09:11 AM Re: How many users for a forum?
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I don’t have really experiences with forums, but I don’t think it hasn’t really to do something with how many visitors you have, but how many visitors you have who are interested in a forum.

For example, when you have a website about your pet, probably no of your visitors will be interested in a forum about “making websites”. Or … maybe your public generally is already subscribed on a forum like yours (but with visitors on it), and so they aren’t interested in a new one …
And … who want to subscribe on a forum where you are the only user at all ? …
So … think about this:
  • Do your visitors belong to a target group who should be interested in your forum?
  • Aren’t there too much forums like yours already?
Maybe you just have to wait till people ask you for a forum.
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Old 08-04-2007, 12:27 PM Re: How many users for a forum?
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What is also important is how many visitors that you get, that actually return to your site. Returning visitors would probably sign up. If the forum was around for several days and you had no takers, this may be a sign that your visitors are just passing and not returning. I may be wrong on this, but I just think returning visitors would probably like to play a part in your site (in forums in this case) as passing visitors would probably not really care.
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Old 08-05-2007, 08:03 AM Re: How many users for a forum?
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I think that it's right, no one wants to join a forum with 0 posts.. I should create about 20 different accounts and "manufacture' some talking.. Then things could improve a lot.
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Old 08-05-2007, 08:11 AM Re: How many users for a forum?
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I certainly wouldn't take the forum down whilst you build up traffic, as forums are usually one of the things that help bring in the traffic. Theres nothing wrong with manufacturing some posts, just to get the ball rolling. I would reccomend that you pay a few people to do a certain number of posts (which won't cost very much at all) and then hopefully the traffic will start to rise as people use the forum more often
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Old 08-06-2007, 07:12 AM Re: How many users for a forum?
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You should leave the forum... it will not do any harm even if it doesn't have any visitors... as Angelosanto said it might only help you attract people
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