Levina

My forum (a photography forum) has been online for 15 days now. I had a small influx of some old pals who started creating tons of threads and posts, making the place lively. And suddenly it has kinda come to a halt. A few are still posting, trying to keep the place active. I do my best, working all day, but it's hard and not good if all New Posts show is a list with just my name. I have all of 46 members now. The stats show between 30 to 34 are active every day. Well, maybe they visit but they aren't very active as in posting content. Not these last few days. I was never on social media but have opened accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky. The trouble is that what I see on social media is people with thousands of followers and images that are liked thousands of times. Why would these people ever go join a new forum with just a handful of members where they will get maybe 5 or 6 Likes, if that? I'm adding content, like articles on photography, and how-to's in Resources and the robots are crawling and indexing but it will take time before we start showing up in search results. Although they do know us as typing in my forum name we're on page 1 of Google (all the way down, but on page 1 nevertheless) and #1 en #2 on DuckDuckGo. We're nowhere yet when I search for "photography forums" though. I have added "photography forum" in the meta-description. Not sure it will help but worth to try. In any case, I'm struggling with the question of where to find new members.

Thanks very much, Cedric! Thank you so much!

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