...how do you start a forum? I mean not making it work from the sw perspecitive, but how do you attract people? I have been running my forum for a month now, and I still do not have any new members or any new posts. How do you do it? It really drives me crazy when I am not getting any posts.
Whether you can build your forum into an empire depends on a many of things:
a) Targeted market - is your nitch already flooded with 100 other forums on exactly the same topic?
b) Search engine optimization (SEO) - is your forum SEO optimized, can people find you? (meta description and keyword placement)
c) Advertising - how do you attract traffic, how do people find you besides search engines?
d) Colors and layout - is your forum nicely designed to be used easily?
e) Functionality - does your forum really work? Do your pages load fast enough? If you require email to activate account, does the process really work?
f) Backlinks - do people link back to you?
g) and many other things.
To build a forum, you need more than just to build one and wait for the traffic to come. Building a forum takes hard work, dedication, determination, and knowledge. Knowledge is the key factor. Anyone can set up a forum, but it takes knowledge to promote that forum, and it takes knowledge to promote it to a targeted nitch.
Good luck with your efforts!
