Whats the best way to promote your site?

[Michael Allison]

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-Michael

[aboyd]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

http://www.forumlaunch.com/

I guess there are a lot of those places - wonder how topical their posts are.

Well, now you can find out. Here's my report. The day you posted -- Dec. 19th -- I purchased 100 posts from both Forum Elves & Forum Launch. Both used a Paypal setup where I didn't actually pay at first. I just placed the order and waited for them to contact me. Forum Launch contacted me on Dec. 20th, and I paid them on the same day. Forum Elves never contacted me.

So 10 days went by with no further activity. Finally, on December 31st, my completely dead forum saw a batch of registrations and lots of posting. Here they started a topic about a movie, and replied:

http://www.reepicheep.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=114

Here they (sarah & fish) replied to a lengthy post:

http://www.reepicheep.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58

And here they reply to a news item which was posted in the forums:

http://www.reepicheep.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=112

Overall, it's going so-so. Almost every post is a 1-liner. Some of their posts (especially that last reply by fish) make it appear that English isn't their native language. That's fine. They are starting topics, and they do have some concept of my site's theme (Narnia books/movies). But nothing really substantive.

In the end, I guess I'm glad I hired them, but I'm also glad I only did the 100 posts option. I can't imagine buying 1000 1-line posts.

I've no idea how Forum Elves performs, as they never contacted me.

-Tony

[John Scott]

Thanks for the report. I was curious how they could do that, but the quality of the posts definitely makes one of those get-what-you-pay-for things.

[MadKad]

i know some one that runs a posting service and i have seen there work they do a great job lol no one line posts they do real posts lol them ones that get others involved

if i was to hier some one that did a bad job yes were i was glad i didnt buy the bigger deal, i would tell them i wasnt pleased and get them to redo there job

[toddieg]

best way to promote a site? stir up the pot a little - create an SEO contest

if you have a forum it will
A. bring in new members
B. bring back old members
C. create an overwhelming load of new content

[John Scott]

I'll have to try that sometime

[Jack F]

I'll be reading this thread a few times. Good stuff.

[mabel01]

to get more traffic.. make your site very useful!

[jwalsh]

aboyd: Good insights, thanks.

[bizops]

Good info, and some great things to think about. Has anyone actually had good luck with paid postings? Or, recommend a good forum posting site?

[vistadivine.com]

But whats the profit of hiring someone to post in your forums?

Akash