Advertising my forums on other smaller forums?

[dpatel304]

I have just started a forums for gaming deals and gaming discussion. It is pretty small, but I am satisfied with the growth so far. I am a member of a few large gaming sites, and advertise in my signature on those sites. Even though I am pretty well known on this sites, my link in my Signature doesn't seem to help. I guess members feel they don't have much of a reason to leave the current, active and big gaming forum, to come to my smaller forum.

Anyway, what I was thinking about doing was to search for smaller gaming forums that have small communities of people, and look like they are on the verge of dying. I know this may seem a bit shady, but I plan to join these, actively participate in them, and if/when the admin decides his forums aren't worth it, I could offer an invitation to my site. I won't be a jerk and join these forums for the sole purpose of watching them die and to spam my site, but I think it would be a great way to earn some loyalty among a small, but strong bunch, and, hopefully that loyalty will pay off in the long run. Has anyone done this before, and has it worked for you?

[Bunny]

Well size does not matter when it comes to advertisement the advertisement you do will later on be picked up by someone...

[ninjashoes]

personal invites over PM can work wonders, make sure you have at least 5-10 posters though or they new people will leave and never come back

[mpp]

Originally Posted by ninjashoes

personal invites over PM can work wonders, make sure you have at least 5-10 posters though or they new people will leave and never come back

i totally agree.
Some webmasters might not like it that you wanna get some of their users over to your platform.

[dpatel304]

I'm not trying to steal members. These forums I am joining and posting on, have like less than 50 users and seem like they will die soon. And, if/when they do die, I could offer my site as a place where all the members could migrate to. That's all I'm doing.

And, like I said, I'm not causing the site to die. I just go to sites that seem like they have a nice community, but aren't going anywhere, in hopes that they help my effort.

[LazySEO]

You'll probably still have the same problem with the members from the smaller forums when they die. You still have to give them a reason to visit your site or they'll just join the big gaming forums instead.

I'd suggest trying to find something unique that your site can offer that will be useful or entertaining to members of the big gaming forums. Promote that part of your site in your signature so that people will want to click and see what you have.

[noob78]

The best way to spread the word is to make your existing members happy! well to a point they want to spread the words for you! A good way of achieving is to ask what kind of features they like to see and if you implement those features, they'll appreciate the site more. So by following this I put features like
"Gallery", "Chat", "Stream Music", "Instant Messenger", "Arcade", souped up "Profile" (still in working progress). G'luck to your site!

[King Justice]

Originally Posted by Bunny

Well size does not matter when it comes to advertisement the advertisement you do will later on be picked up by someone...

Size does matter in the long runs.

But posting at forums relavent to your own will always help you obtain quality, targeted, relavent backlinks.

[whexact]

I found that most members here are just tech persons. Marketing is one of the toughest thing to overcome.

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[WebHostAdvisor]

I have found that signatures are good or back links but not for marketing or getting direct traffic.

[webcosmo]

Find out what other places gamers hang out. Forums, blogs, social networking are some places you can start with. It would a constant work anyways, you gotta work hard to get people in slowly.

[swapw]

Originally Posted by King Justice

Size does matter in the long runs.

But posting at forums relavent to your own will always help you obtain quality, targeted, relavent backlinks.

Yes, size does matter. Whoever says size don't matter most likely never owned a real forum. Forums function different then blogs, they only get bigger if it is maintained well and more reputable and powerful as a whole.

Originally Posted by ninjashoes

personal invites over PM can work wonders, make sure you have at least 5-10 posters though or they new people will leave and never come back

I agree, you may want to grab a few buddies of yours and invite them to start running the forum with you.

One more thing I would say is that make sure your forum has very nice sticky post that other forums may not have. This is huge for forums.

- Swapw

[vanessam]

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[beacon]

Originally Posted by webcosmo

Find out what other places gamers hang out. Forums, blogs, social networking are some places you can start with. It would a constant work anyways, you gotta work hard to get people in slowly.

i definitely agree..