Everything posted by Bawse
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What do you do to attract visitors and gain traffic?
The more you post your links the better. I don't do it for big traffic, but every little bit of traffic helps. Also when you link your site on more sites with do follow links it helps you get more of a boost in search engines, and get more traffic from SEO.
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What do you do to attract visitors and gain traffic?
Promoting on social media, and post on forums including my signature link are what I do daily new attract new members.
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Favorite domain provider?
I use Namecheal for all my domain names. I don't even consider other domain providers.
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Does adding new add-ons excite you?
Certain add-ons do, anything that improves my site excites me, especially if it's a big feature that may attract more users.
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What would you do differently when starting your community up again?
I started my forum with MyBB than I switched to Xenforo. I would start with Xenforo right away.
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Why did you start using forums?
I started using forums when I got interested in building sites. Forums are a great way to get a community started.
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How many hours do you spend on your website or forum?
I spend more time on my forum/site than I do any other site.
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Does .com really matter?
It does not matter, but it's usually better to own the .com. I think the . community extension is really good for forums, and I also use a . community domain for my site.
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How can you encourage members to contribute meaningful content?
Lead by example. If you're persistent with posting quality content, you'll get some members that do the same. It varies between members, but chances are you'll get some members that make great posts.
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How can a mentor help your community?
I've considered [mention=5]Cpvr[/mention] to be a mentor for me with community building. I've learned a lot from him over the years, and watching him build his community.
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Deal or no Deal: Bawse
I accept the dealers offer! Thank you :)
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Do you play the lottery?
No I don't like to gamble, but I love to play poker.
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Post Exchanges
3/3 posts per day with poker.community?
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Creating fake members to jumpstart community: yay or nay?
I know some that do it, but I've been against it with my own forums. I like to build my community naturally, and with post exchanges.
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What part of community building makes you struggle?
I struggle converting lurking members into users that make posts on my forums as a lot of them come to my site for passwords to play our poker games.
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Your goal for 2025?
My goal is to keep expanding my site, and hopefully have a self sustaining business in 2025.
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Hey!
Hi [mention=84]SarahKik[/mention] welcome to Administrata.
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What topics are off-limits on your community?
Pirated content anything illegal is off limits on my forums.
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Deal or no Deal: Bawse
Cases 14, 16, 8, 6, and 17
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Are smaller communities better than larger online communties?
I like bigger communities better, but with an active team that gets rid of all the spam. I've seen forums fade away, because the staff stopped being active.
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Deal or no Deal: Bawse
Case #7 please
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Deal or no Deal: Win big or risk it all!
Count me in!
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How do you define growth
Growth is self explanatory to me, but seeing more members online, and regular activity in the community is a growing/striving forum.
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Sidebars - Yes or No?
I love using sidebars on my forums. I've tweaked the placements of the widgets on my forums a lot.