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    Site promotion.

    Now that the site is fairly stable, I'd like to look into ways of promoting the site. Short of a chat feature, the site is pretty much where I want it to be.

    Does anyone have any experience in promting sites? I'd like to appoint someone to take on creating and coordinate ads, links and other promotions.

    Please PM me with your idea or "application".

    John

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    shues is offline
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    Re: Site promotion.

    John,

    Word of mouth will probably be the best means by which to attract the sort of visitors/members you are looking for, and provide a reasonable growth rate. The wrong sort of advertising could lead to significant increases in spam, or other unwanted trends. An explosive growth in membership overnight could potentially overwhelm the moderator staff, or the spam patrol, and possibly even the hosting service.

    As it stands, the site appears to have been experiencing a steady rate of growth over the last few months. Every day it looks like there are about a dozen more registered members.

    Also, perhaps it is time to remove the static page that allows visitors to choose between the archive board or the new board. Instead, maybe just provide a sticky that includes a link to the archive board. This would probably give first-time visitors a more streamlined introduction to the site.

    All in all, I am pleased with how you have things running. Keep up the great work!

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    Re: Site promotion.

    Too many sticky's! Just add a link at the bottom of the board index that goes to the archive...on another note:

    PM Sent!

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    KD8GPM is offline
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    Re: Site promotion.

    I agree, having to go through the new board / old board welcome screen got old, just put a link somewhere on here to it.

    Quote Originally Posted by kinnelonfire75
    Just add a link at the bottom of the board index that goes to the archive.

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    Maranos is offline
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    Re: Site promotion.

    PM sent
    It's not about what you know. It's about what you can prove in court.

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    dale cohen is offline
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    cleveland ohio
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    Re: Site promotion.

    maybe you can make an into page for new members, and then create a button that links to that page.

    then members that have web pages can have a statement:

    A Proud Member Of


    dale

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    code4services.com is offline
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    Pelican Rapids, MN
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    Re: Site promotion.

    Quote Originally Posted by dale cohen
    maybe you can make an into page for new members, and then create a button that links to that page.

    then members that have web pages can have a statement:

    A Proud Member Of


    dale

    I would add this to my website.

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    SireLite is offline
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    Re: Site promotion.

    I recommend using this one I just made if your going to post the image on your website.



    http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9236/elightbars.png
    Jim - SireLite

 

 

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