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There are allot of things changing and it seems allot more things will change in time to come but honestly I can't see most of them working and I can't see them helping the UK and its current situation.

This is the thing, Allot of people do think numbers matter and of course they do becuase say you had 5 members its less percent of genuine posters.. if that makes sence

So with more members the average would increase of good memebers sticking around.

I know the other forum hasnt had new posts for days and people are grumbling about not wanting to go onto UKBF for the exact reason stated earlier.

As we know the forum offers a good wealth of information for everyone and has helped allot of people with various business issues.

We all know that for a forum to keep growing and helping it needs to have more members who both can help with spefic topics and also need business help.

so...

I have set a challenge Lets try and generate the forum 5000 members currently it sits around 2800 so we do have some work to do

But with everyones help and effors we could see a good increase in memebers and this can only be a good thing

What do people think?

I was just making some convo

Just wanted to see if people thought buying a forum to make a forum bigge was a good idea for example

I know a forum that has over 19000 memebers but the forum is dead because no convesation is been made.

So then comes the idea would you buy it and combine it or not?

I'm not persoanlly on about buying one, I just remeber when I owned UKBDF I was asked to sell that and declined on the basis I didn't want people been annoyed I had effectivly sold there details to a new forum!

I know when I used to a run a small forum it was great for links etc, but I know people are always looking ot buy a forum off someone to knock out comp and also increase forum members

But what do people think?

To be honest, I'm at that student age and it seems so stupid allot of it is just people lookinng to get some viloence going !

Have you tried The Wholesale Forums they usually have allot of suppliers on there

I agree some of them are silly but they are all good ways of getting your website known! I know for a fact if someoen I knew locally appread on Dragons Den i would know them more if thta makes sense.

Like Trunki I only know them becuase of Dragons Den

1. Abide to W3C standards - it will help your site in the long term.
2. Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
3. Publisise your site on related forums - but don't spam!
4. Ask bloggers to write about your site or product - in return for a link of course.
5. Offer a competition related to something in the news - so football around the time of the World Cup etc.
6. Add a "Tell a Friend" function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
7. Have a Sitemap on your site to allow users to navigate around quickly and to aid the search engines.
8. Have a nice keyword rich title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines both like descriptive titles.
9. Include a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
10. If you use PPC then create a landing page for each of your AdWords - it'll boost your conversations no end.
11. Appear on Dragon's Den.
12. Create a Press section on your site where can you store all your press releases, logos and banners.
13. Add a link to your site from within your eBay profile.
14. Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
15. The best way to find someone to do any kind of work on your site is through personal recommendation.
16. Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr.
17. Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
18. Make sure it's easy for your users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
19. Create a "lense" for your site on Squidoo
20. Ask friends, collegues and associates to "Favourite" your blog on Technorati.
21. You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site that all your MySpace Friends will see.
22. Response to your customer's emails promptly, even if it is with a simply auto-responder. No one likes to wait 3 or 4 days for an acknowledgement of their contact with you.
23. Get a professional Copywriter to give your site a once over. If you are on a tight budget, limit to the just the homepage.
24. Make a list, "Top 10"s work well. Update it regularly to give your visitors a reason to return.
25. What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
26. Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.
27. Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
28. Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
29. Ask your Gran for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
30. Include a "Add to your Technorati favourites" button on your site.
31. Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who's visiting your site.
32. Search engines will find you. Don't pay money for your site to be "submitted".
33. Don't be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and to highly respected sites.
34. Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
35. Validate your HTML and CSS. It'll help ensure your site displays well in all browsers.
36. Small pages sizes and optimised graphics will give your site a snappy feel and won't require users to wait around for it to load.
37. If you plan to submit your site to lots of directory or article sites - create an email especially for this. Delete it when you're finished to avoid spam.
38. "Link baiting" means writing some killer content that people will want to link to. Like a "101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence" list!
39. If your chosen field is technology related then write a "whitepaper". That's a posh name for an article.
40. Google receives roughly 50% of all search requests, Yahoo 25% and MSN just 10%. That's a good rule of thumb as to how much emphisis to put on each.
41. Make sure you have a robots.txt file in the root of your Web site. You can use this to control search engines, but if nothing else it'll reduce the number of 404 errors in your Weblogs.
42. Free online games, a forum or chatrooms will give your users a reason to come back to your site.
43. Ebooks with re-seller rights make an excellent "free gift" for your site.
44. Upload your product feed to Froogle. It's FREE!
45. This is an excellent list of Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites
46. Search out unanswered questions on Yahoo! Answers and add your site as the "Source".
47. PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity.
48. Yahoo are catching up with Google with an excellent set of webmaster tools called Site Explorer.
49. Don't buy traffic. It's un-targetted and won't convert.
50. Pay Per Click advertising gets you fast results - and if it's handled well can be very profitable.
51. Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
52. And that's it!