Free Forum Hosting

[pao]

Okay, since I'm really desperate for traffic, I've decided to offer free Invision Board Hosting. Here are the rules:

• You Must Already Have A Forum
• Your Forum Must Have 30-70 Users(<30 users won't get much traffic in my site, if you have more than70 then you should invest in paid hosting)
• I Will Not Install More Forums. You Will Be Using my Current Installation(Tell me if you want the skin and logo customized)
• You Must Encourage Participation In MY Forum(I will delete your forum if 100% of your user' posts are in yours only)
• If you get me a lot of users, I might give you free WEBSITE HOSTING.
• You Will Become A Moderator(Ask if you need to post attachments.)
• If You Want Modifications, Tell Me.
• I Will Decide If I Host You or Not. It Is Not Automatic.

Here are the forum-specific features:

• No Spamming
• No Offensive Posting
• No Flaming/Trolling
• Illegal Activities
• No Guest Posting
• Only Admins May Post Attachments
• No Image Posting/Avatars(To prevent pronography/anything offensive)

Post here or talk to me on AIM(RaGgZ 02) if you're interested but I prefer AIM and I won't be online right now but I will be online in a few minutes/hours. That is all.

[Jan]

Not a very well thought out idea pao. Good luck getting traffic

Marvellous the lengths people will go to, to get members on their forums.

[pao]

Originally posted by Jan
Not a very well thought out idea pao. Good luck getting traffic

Marvellous the lengths people will go to, to get members on their forums.

Jan,

Can you please tell me why this is a bad idea? Thanks.

BTW, just for the record, it's not just a forum-website. It will have a website really soon...

[KBC]

Can I just say... if you really want traffic I suggest you do link trades and affiliate exchanges. :smile2:

The most important thing about driving traffic to a community is to have a website. A website with content. I'm sure when you have a website, it will bring in a few more members. A single forum won't interest anyone without a website.

I guess that is the current problem with free hosting, so many duff requests for free hosting of a forum with no website, thus no members, thus no posts.

[pao]

Originally posted by KBC
Can I just say... if you really want traffic I suggest you do link trades and affiliate exchanges. :smile2:

I'm doing that + this one.

The most important thing about driving traffic to a community is to have a website. A website with content. I'm sure when you have a website, it will bring in a few more members. A single forum won't interest anyone without a website.

I'm working on that right now.

I guess that is the current problem with free hosting, so many duff requests for free hosting of a forum with no website, thus no members, thus no posts.

Just because my hosting offer doesn't include website hosting doesn't mean that the ones I host don't have websites. Oh and if you are referring to my forums, I pay for hosting...

[KBC]

pao... that was a general comment.