[HeartoftheNight]

Okay, so my sis is trying to make a forum. Now she just about has the place up. Now she wants others to go there. Other than submitting it to search engines how do you get people to go there? I know in a lot of places some one will just drop a link and say this is my forum and that's it. You say anything more and your post could get deleted for "spamming". So what do you do?

Also, say you're making a forum for an author. So you have your admins and your mods. What would title would the author have when he came to post on the forum his admin made him?

Thanks ahead for any info!

[Viv]

I've only made a couple of forums, but in all the forums that I've been a member of, they sort of grew organically. That is, a group of people wanted an internet space to play, so they made one. Those people drew more people in, and so on. It just grew (or not, if it wasn't very entertaining after all). I think it's really helpful to develop your pool of interested potential members *first* and then make the forum, otherwise you can put a lot of work into something that might not get a lot of attention. Good luck!

[Robbie]

As a rough estimate you need about 40 "regular" members to a site before starting a forum. Otherwise nothing happens and people soon disappear.

You do need daily (or better) content updates. If you don't have the necessary members, you can just make sure you update your own content, but it can be a bit of a task.

[HeartoftheNight]

alrighty then, thanks!