Community Activity

[john]

Hey

 

We’re just getting on with promoting the community in general and according to stats we have stopped the decline and started to grow again. We have so many promotions to do to attract people here, and we have only scratched the surface in terms of promoting things like New Music Friday topics (Check em out!).

 

Members notice the boards getting busier but maybe not as fast as they would like. Luckily there are some simple solutions…

 

If members find the boards would be better busier, then simply by 1. staying around and 2. keeping posting, the more members who do these two things, our boards will pretty quickly become busy.

 

Why? Several reasons, but can largely be broken down into two areas:

• Traffic
• Activity

Activity Breeds Activity

 

It motivates others to be active. Posts also stimulate other members by feeding them stuff to talk about, things to respond to.

Activity tells people it is worth being active here.

 

People are wired to look for a number of responses quite quickly to feel people are interested. If they don’t get that, they feel people are disinterested and they go elsewhere.

 

When we promote our forums, ideally people will arrive to find a busy forum. The more promotions we can do that encourage people to come here and they arrive to find the subject that brought them here being discussed… the more of them will stay around.

 

Simple solution. Talk to people. Ask them questions. Be interested. When you see staff post new topics, or promote member topics, please respond because we are probably promoting that topic. Keep it active. Even better, post related topics too!

 

Traffic

1. We rely on search traffic to bring in new members
2. We also rely on regular promotion of our community on blogs and social media by staff to bring in new members.
   • Please comment, like and share our social posts!
3. We rely upon members and visitors occasionally sharing links to our articles and topics on social media and blogs.
   • Please comment, like and share our site content on your social media!

4. Doing 2 and 3 helps really helps with 1 as well as directly helping with traffic in their own right.
   

   Activity

 

1. Our boards, and our individual topics, rely on members actively posting
   • This helps improve the search ranking, mentioned above, by creating new content and new links, which Google etc loves and use to help measure our community popularity. More links to our community gives more traffic from search engines, which gives more traffic…. You get the idea.
   • Members, especially new members, look for regular activity. So when we are actively promoting our community, the best thing we can all do is to be active on our boards.
2. Our social media accounts benefit hugely from members actively commenting, sharing and liking our post on social media
   • This also helps improve the search ranking by giving new content and new links, which Google etc love.
   • Followers, especially new followers, look for regular activity. So if you see our posts, the best thing we can all do is to respond.

 

If you like what we have here, but just want it busier…

 

• Stick around
• Be active
• Be patient