I just started a forum for .CO domain owners. Does anyone have any idea on how to get new members, especially .CO domain owners, and traffic? <snip />
Adwords is very expensive, so can’t go for that. Any freelancers here who can do this for me?
A great way to get new members is through referral programs making all your members doing all the promoting work for you by offering a little free advertising,allowing them to post their website on the main page etc. Your forum like many other Forums should not turn to be a useless one for members who spend their valuable Time.
Building a forum is hard when you don’t actually have a community to fall back on. Typically, one builds a website, then a forum for the recurring visitors.
With SEO the way it is nowadays I would not offer any kind of link/advertising incentive to post on your forums, simply because you’ll be full of spammers pretending to care about your site, filling your pages with broken English and spam links.
If you’re starting from scratch and you don’t want to build a website first, then the best thing I can say to you is to keep your forums small for now, and increase as more members come along.
Any freelancers here who can do this for me?
I think you might have a horribly mistaken idea of what the “free” in freelance means.
Does anyone have any idea on how to get new members, especially .CO domain owners, and traffic?
You do not start a forum with this question unanswered. Period.
I know what freelancers mean. I have worked as a freelancer and have outsourced work as well. I am a Freelancer.com member myself.
Thanks Ultimate and Ranjith. I have prepared a budget, so I am going with adBrite in a few days.
Like Ranjith said, I am going to be starting a referral program too.