Aardvark Audio?
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A popular tactic in the days of the Yellow Pages.
"Boring - see Civil Engineers'
Aardvark Audio?
Why?Many other forums are trying to deny publicity to HFS. That means we have to do more ourselves to ensure people can find us.
The goal is to ensure that we are visible to people who might enjoy the content here.Lurcher300b wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:49 amWhy?Many other forums are trying to deny publicity to HFS. That means we have to do more ourselves to ensure people can find us.
Never trusted the need to make a forum have more visitors? Whats the goal?
I think you have misinterpreted the objective. The aim is to enable more people to be able to find us, and find out what the forum is already about. A lack of search engine visibility acts as a choke on the number of people who are able to find us. We are simply talking about removing that choke by using the correct techniques. Nothing underhand, tricksy or dishonest, just making sure that we are visible.slinger wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:50 pm Getting people to HFS is only one part of the process. The major part is to actually get those people to stay here, otherwise, all you get is a boost to member numbers and no new activity. Sound familiar?
The term we used to use was making (or building) a "sticky" site.
You need to provide content that people are actually interested in and, to be honest, less conflict unless the majority of people you want to attract are those with an axe to grind about someone or somewhere else, which has sod-all to do with hifi. Ask yourself what people think of now when they think of HFS and decide how you want to change that perception.
1 - Decide on your target audience.
2 - Work out how to appeal to them and how to help them find you.
3 - Decide on the best way(s) to keep them coming back.
Eventually, when the number of members reaches critical mass #3 takes care of itself due to the number of "interesting" opinions and reviews/gear discussions etc. that are propagated across the site by an active membership, not just the same twelve (a number plucked from the air) people. This, in turn, takes care of point #2 and you can add "word of mouth" to your plan for #1 because that will now happen too.
If you're serious about what you want then you need to make a plan, write it down, and stick to it. Doing a bit of this and a bit of that, fiddling with another part, and bolting ideas on willy-nilly will just make a mess. You wouldn't build anything else like that and expect it to work, would you.
Just my £0.02 worth.