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Kenneth Mar 3 '14

I currently run a social network with Oxwall called Cimmarian

What have you done to get your site more active? I have tried many things I have only started it back in October of last year. I feel some major things are still missing in my site however I feel it's currently good enough to hold better social action.

Some of the things I have done

Radio Station (With requests and talk shows)

Comics and Manga

Contests

Digital Magazine

Questions (Letting members choose what they want worked on)

Active blogging (Blogging about our news and what we are adding)

Events (Charity and In Real Life)

and of course the same stuff that comes with Owall such as

Forums, Groups, Videos etc

I was just wondering what really might have brought traffic to your Oxwall community and how you could suggest others try things out.

What I felt really helped for mine and it being video game based was offering free game keys and what really helped our radio was starting "social debate" where members could give their 2 cents on a topic or vs match between games and we would read their comments on the air.

Shaun Mar 8 '14

I Made a youtube channel and advertised the site through that.

John Mar 8 '14

It would depend on what you're creating your site for. If you're trying to put facebook out of business, I guess you need to add more bells and whistles until everyone is satisfied. However, if you're creating a niche site, possibly the less things you offer will appeal to most users. Or at least you can run a poll and find out what they really want.

I'm about to launch two sites. One will have about six plugins all to do with Admin and SEO - no music, no videos, no chat, no comments, but photos of course.

The other site has literally no plugins, yet I expect both sites to reach their intended market rather quickly.

A couple of years ago I closed down a site because hacking (not spam) became a very serious issue. It had 2,500 pages and attracted 300,000 unique visitors in the first year. It offered nothing except a catalog of useful items and information for a Railway simulator. It was possibly like your game site Kenneth, but it wasn't a social site. In every instance I didn't, or won't have any competition and that always helps.

It's all about horses for courses.

Good luck

Joseph Mar 8 '14

seo helps genrate traffic although oxwall's seo is far behind there are a few plugins that help it along

Kenneth Mar 9 '14

Quote from Joseph seo helps genrate traffic although oxwall's seo is far behind there are a few plugins that help it along

Yeah I have noticed that getting in a search engine is not the easiest with Oxwall, Some of it is mine to blame due to the fact that I am still on a shared server and I hear those have terrible ratings to begin with on search ratings.

Quote from Shaun I Made a youtube channel and advertised the site through that.

I have wanted to add videos to our youtube channel I'm just not very good at making videos on the computer. Do you know any good tutorial sites for making videos?

Quote from John It would depend on what you're creating your site for. If you're trying to put facebook out of business, I guess you need to add more bells and whistles until everyone is satisfied. However, if you're creating a niche site, possibly the less things you offer will appeal to most users. Or at least you can run a poll and find out what they really want.

I'm about to launch two sites. One will have about six plugins all to do with Admin and SEO - no music, no videos, no chat, no comments, but photos of course.

The other site has literally no plugins, yet I expect both sites to reach their intended market rather quickly.

A couple of years ago I closed down a site because hacking (not spam) became a very serious issue. It had 2,500 pages and attracted 300,000 unique visitors in the first year. It offered nothing except a catalog of useful items and information for a Railway simulator. It was possibly like your game site Kenneth, but it wasn't a social site. In every instance I didn't, or won't have any competition and that always helps.

It's all about horses for courses.

Good luck

I don't wish to beat facebook, however I would like to believe I am creating something a bit nicer for gamers. I felt facebook is a bit more "What i did over the weekend" and "Who am I dating now" So with my site I advertise that not only can you connect with gamers but game developers and communities can connect with each other as well. I have only been open for a few months and have had two indie developers sign up with success.

My main issue is gamers being social and I think the main issue when talking to them is "I don't know what to say" or "I would rather just chat". This is a simple rule of lac in social skills which is fine. I have kick stated some conversations with Social debates like "This company vs this company" so far playing with fire like that has not gotten out of hand 'yet'.

The Forum post is edited by Kenneth Mar 9 '14

John Mar 9 '14

Hi Kenneth, the Facebook comment was generalised because so many people here are looking for "Facebook Like" features and plugins. Hopefully you didn't take offence because I wasn't directing that observation at you.

I agree that gamers seem to become somewhat reclusive and find it difficult to communicate. Thus I'm wondering why they would go to any site unless it was about a specific game.

My site was about a specific railway simulator and in the 2,500 pages it covered every aspect of the hobby. Like Flight simulator people could either play or build. I could have added another 2,000 pages but lost interest when the hackers found me. Every time someone clicked a link they ended up at a casino.

Possibly a big winner for you could be to build on the Links module by getting people to add links to cheats, tutorials (people love tutorials) and other aspects of a game. I've never looked at the Links plugin, but a categories list within the plugin would be handy. Once people lean that your site has great links to other information, they will bookmark you. The mere fact that they have to log on and create a profile may help them to socialise. Who knows? Good luck.

Kenneth Mar 9 '14

Quote from John Hi Kenneth, the Facebook comment was generalised because so many people here are looking for "Facebook Like" features and plugins. Hopefully you didn't take offence because I wasn't directing that observation at you.

I agree that gamers seem to become somewhat reclusive and find it difficult to communicate. Thus I'm wondering why they would go to any site unless it was about a specific game.

My site was about a specific railway simulator and in the 2,500 pages it covered every aspect of the hobby. Like Flight simulator people could either play or build. I could have added another 2,000 pages but lost interest when the hackers found me. Every time someone clicked a link they ended up at a casino.

Possibly a big winner for you could be to build on the Links module by getting people to add links to cheats, tutorials (people love tutorials) and other aspects of a game. I've never looked at the Links plugin, but a categories list within the plugin would be handy. Once people lean that your site has great links to other information, they will bookmark you. The mere fact that they have to log on and create a profile may help them to socialise. Who knows? Good luck.

Not a bad idea, I have been trying to create interactive aspects. The main niche that brings people to sites is "free". I have recently wanted to start a wiki or tutorial type function on the Oxwall site. It's just unless I use the forums or blog function it's a tad hard to make a very interesting tutorial to help people out. These functions also lack simple categories so people would have to search keywords or tags.

I will investigate the link system and possibly a system that allows rating and categories if I can find it.

Shaun Mar 9 '14

I didn't really learn anything special lol I just got a camera and started filming.

I used windows live movie maker to get started but quickly switched to power director. I always stick the website name up at the begining of my videos and the only people watching them are the ones that are actively looking for video's on homebrewing. Some of vids have over a 1000 views so the website is getting advertised through them.

Plus you can become a youtube partner and make money through youtube at the same time to help fund you website.

Pete Mar 9 '14

To keep people coming back to your website ,you must add new content often,its no good having a website and having very little content. Some people build a website and think there members well add content ,you sure well lose your members if you think like this.Content is king,the more you can add the better your site well be. Say you or building a games website ,you need to add about all the new games coming out on the market ,etc ,etc.

The Forum post is edited by Pete Mar 9 '14

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Kieron H Mar 10 '14

@booby i tried them but sites like that are a waste of time

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bobby Mar 11 '14

that site got me 47 users in one month not alot but its something for free
I'm open for suggestions that's what this is for right

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Kenneth Mar 11 '14

Quote from bobby that site got me 47 users in one month not alot but its something for free
I'm open for suggestions that's what this is for right

I signed up i'll let you know what it brings me, I'm sure it depends on your site and what it provides for people to click it :P

There are some free directories on the web I could put up if you want. However with free directories all they do is help with your search score.

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John Mar 11 '14

I had a site called PCTutorials. Kidding that wasn't in a high competition area. I joined Yahoo Answers and answered questions. If you do it, Don't say "Visit my site to find the answer". Make sure you answer the question and say there's more info on your site. You'll get banned otherwise.

Join other forums and become well known. Like you are here Kenneth. People will eventually notice you and visit your site. Put the URL in your signature. That's were I got heaps of business for my Simulator site.

Join Web Rings and help promote eachothers sites.

Write to similar site owners or game site owners and do a link exchange. Also very good for SEO. Do NOT join a Link Exchange because you will be penalised.

That's just a start. There are many more ways,but signing up with people who offer to send visitors is a total waste of time.

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