07-18-2011, 09:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2011, 10:03 PM by AceInfinity.)
They will fill up, but I guarantee you'll have a faster and easier time doing that with less forum topics. It's not difficult to generalize topics, and combine two together by changing the forum titles and descriptions where necessary to allow the content of say two topics to be posted in one topic/forum area.
It's not hard to get some content, but that's not entirely my idea behind suggesting lesser numbers in forum areas here.
1) Who wants to join a forum when they see "0" for threads/posts on a forum area? (or lots of them?)
Solution/Getaround: You generalize topics to increase those numbers to higher levels to make it look like you get more activity. You can have 100 posts on your forum, but if you have 100 forum areas, and that number was "1" all the way around the board for each forum area, it looks discouraging for registrants, than if you had say 4 or 5 forum areas, with "20"-"25" as that number instead. Think about it logically.
Favicon's are a bigger deal than most beginner webmasters realize. I'm saying that through experience.
And now for the positive to your site: I haven't seen this idea before, and unique ideas have more potential to go "big" than the more common ideas out there in a webmaster's world. So i'm interested to see how you utilize this advantage. Now it's just up to you and dedication to keep this idea going and grow into something big. That's as much as I have to say for now.
It's not hard to get some content, but that's not entirely my idea behind suggesting lesser numbers in forum areas here.
1) Who wants to join a forum when they see "0" for threads/posts on a forum area? (or lots of them?)
Solution/Getaround: You generalize topics to increase those numbers to higher levels to make it look like you get more activity. You can have 100 posts on your forum, but if you have 100 forum areas, and that number was "1" all the way around the board for each forum area, it looks discouraging for registrants, than if you had say 4 or 5 forum areas, with "20"-"25" as that number instead. Think about it logically.
Favicon's are a bigger deal than most beginner webmasters realize. I'm saying that through experience.
And now for the positive to your site: I haven't seen this idea before, and unique ideas have more potential to go "big" than the more common ideas out there in a webmaster's world. So i'm interested to see how you utilize this advantage. Now it's just up to you and dedication to keep this idea going and grow into something big. That's as much as I have to say for now.