1. Banner: A banner is everything on a forum. If you banner isn't all if can be you will have some people that turn away. You must make sure you have a banner that matches the theme and forum style as well as being professional and classy.
2. Theme: You must make sure you have a good theme and theme images. This is crucial in your forum success.
3. Services: Okay, your current services are good, but why not make them great, awesome or absolutely mind blowing? Make up a few unique services that no one has seen before and add them along with a wide range of other great services. This will definitely help boost your activity and traffic and get you on the way to becoming the new big promotion forum.
4. Staff Activity: Part of getting a huge forum is having very active staff to boost the community. You need to make sure that all of the staff are active, with the admin being just as active, if not even more active than the other staff.
5. Modifications: Modifications are another big part of successful forums. If you don't have any, you don't have much change of getting big. I will list a few that I think you [i]must/i] have. They are just a few, the possibilities are endless with mods.
- Cash Mod
- Reputation Mod
- Quick Reply Mod
- Moods Mod
- Bookmark Mod
6. Promote Everywhere: Okay, so if you don't promote everywhere and all the time, your forum doesn't have much of a chance to shine.
7. Huge Competitions: Big competitions with big prizes are the key to getting an even better forum. If you offer cash or a domain you will have people signing up willy nilly to join in. Definite must! These can include referral competitions, post competitions and the like.
8. Domain: Buy a domain, if you are serious about your forum you will buy a domain for it.
9. Regular Competitions: You must run regular competitions on your forum. This includes, Forum of the Month, Signature of the Week and others. Also run awards like Member of the Month and such. Offer prizes that are substantial as well.
10. Good English: Another must for your forum is having good English. Admins and staff must always make sure they have perfect English when posting. Bad English and grammar can turn people away.
11. Flood Control: You must make sure you don't have a high flood control on, this will discourage posting. Have it set to 10-15 seconds maximum.
Credit goes to KMRock. Thanks
