One thing you need to look at is this. Lets say ten people from over here join up and do as you asked them to do and you get the same guests daily looking at your site and they see these same people on all the time but your activity and content is not growing. What do you think they will think?

I have noticed that when guests look around a forum they are looking for specific things that are common to that forum, some people actually do care about content and the amount of posts that a forum has. They seem to be more interested when a forum has posts and topics.

I have the same problem, I have alot of guests coming by my forum and alot of them are the same. I log guests ips and they are matched up everytime that ip comes across. I thought about that one time, then I realized that to do that would in someways be lying and deceiving your guests and sometimes even your members.

A post exchange works out a little better, since you have activity and someone with an active account for that many posts agreed upon. Then if the person is really interested in your forum, perhaps they will remain active and stick around giving you one more member.

You could even do link exchanges with other members, that would bring activity and possible more members.


Maybe adding some mods could work, perhaps a shop, give your members something to look forward to when they post and even let guests know about the shop if they join, an arcade to give members something to do, some guests will see this and join to see what games you have to offer them. Perhaps even the custom profile mod and some other mods they have at SMF. You could even think about tinyportal, this would give you more expansion to the forum allowing you to give announcements and all right where people can look.

Those are just my opinions and you were asking for ideas....

Thanks for the Reputation...

Well, I am always willing to link exchange with anyone who wants to. If you wish to link exchange with me, send me your button and I will send you mind or if you just want me to put you up in my links section I will do that as well. Post exchanges with me are hard, becuase the type of forum I run is a writing/rp community and to post exchange I am looking for those who can keep to the continuety of my forum. But if you think that is something you would like to try, then we could do a post exchange as well...Then I will have an account on your board, that would have posts attached to it...

If you need anything else, like ideas for mods that could work, just feel free to ask and I will see what I can do to help you.

I was just thinking something like that as well. Thanks for your suggestion. Haha, +rep for you too!

@Ghost, I've had a look at your forum before, and I think it would be rather hard for me to make a valuable contribution there, so I guess we can't establish a post exchange.