Giving something to guests

Today I made this up and thought to share it with you.

Just visit this forum as a guest and you'll see what I mean.

The guests will see a very big advertisment that indicates that if they register to the site, will get some prizes.

I can't say anything about the results of this method, as I've just implement it.

I will talk about this when there will be some results.

As for the implementation it is really easy. You should edit just the overall template file of your board.

Excellent, Nikolas :) It really gives guests incentive to register :)

I think this forum will be a good community for experienced and beginning webmasters to help each other grow.  Keep it up!

I have added a bar to my site (similar to the IE toolbar that appreas as an alert) to attract guests! I find it a really nice way to attract guests

That's a very helpfull advice, and after all it is true that there are so many forums out there, that you have to put something unique in order to make a new one work

That was why I joined :)

I WANT PRIZES MAN!

Yup, I joined this forum because i was told "that forum webdigity has some cool contests and they give away prizes"  .. or something similar to that :P  I've found a lot of very imformative posts browsing around here.  Nice work Nikolas :)

Thanks man :)

Hope you enjoy this place.

I think this forum is a great example of motivation.

You've done a great work Nikolas.

Keep up!

Yeah, that is an excellent idea. What I recommend is you just attract guests with a really cheap, but desirable prize, a perfect example being a free textlink for advertising or something like that. As long as it is a good forum, the member will probably stay.