Promotion Forums

[el canadiano]

I'll be backing David's statement.







From what I have seen, Promotion Forums are purely only for some genres, and those ones only. Everyone I see who only promotes on a promotion forum either runs an Admin forum, a General Discussion forum, a Gaming forum, or some other promotion forum. That's the only things I see from there. Someone like me, who owns a very specific genre, can't rely on post exchanges because those people might not know Rock Band, and that's absolutely fine. Not everyone plays Rock Band. When I do a post exchange, I end up getting 95% off-topic exchanges because they don't take the time to learn the specific genre. On some other forums, I will get people who will do that in a post exchange, and I commend them.







For someone like me, I have to rely on RockBand.com, ScoreHero, Google, and social media to get members in.

[Wolfy]

I was about to say something like that, canadiano as my forum isn't exactly for everyone either. some people find it though, and it does give it a little promotion, but mainly I rely on affiliating with relating forums and search engines

[el canadiano]

To be perfectly honest as well, I never got a really good package or a post exchange from a promotion forum, mostly because everyone made crappy posts in off-topic forums, which are basically useless when it comes to getting your forum to grow.

[David_]

You shouldn't really expect posting packages to be the best thing ever. It looks fake from a visitor point of view, as no one just signs up and makes 5 quality posts and then leaves.

[el canadiano]

[quote name='David' date='04 June 2010 - 02:22 AM' timestamp='1275632541' post='16817']



You shouldn't really expect posting packages to be the best thing ever. It looks fake from a visitor point of view, as no one just signs up and makes 5 quality posts and then leaves.



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To be perfectly honest though, if you wanted good post exchanges, The Admin Zone actually has some really good guys there.

[David_]

[quote name='el canadiano' date='05 June 2010 - 06:02 AM' timestamp='1275678123' post='16849']



To be perfectly honest though, if you wanted good post exchanges, The Admin Zone actually has some really good guys there.



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But this won't look genuine from a member point of view.







Scenario: You go down the memberlist and see 10 people have 5 posts. You look at their posts and they are of decent quality, so you would wonder why they haven't returned. Gives a bad impression because people see that after 5 posts, they leave. They wonder, why?







Anyway, post exchanges really do nothing. You could make those 5 posts or even better, topics, which will get others posting.

[el canadiano]

Of course. You shouldn't rely on Post Exchanges at all. The only one I do right now is an active for active with someone I knew very well there but that's it these days. I do however get free posts because I'm on the Launch Team of The Admin Zone. Now THAT is good for someone whose forum is small.