How to make forum interesting??

[lordp]

One of my friend has a forum. Its very content rich in its own niche but still its lacking activity. My friend & his team is adding content regularly and also building links to get traffic & exposure. But still no response. They are using phpbb right now as script.

[batman]

To make a forum attractive phpbb isn't the answer. It will take some money but try Xenforo they have plenty of options that makes a forum very attractive. If it has already good content then its very advantageous. Elements like 'thumbs up' or 'likes' always helps if you ask me.

[supaul]

Forum isn't only about being attractive. How much traffic does it gets?

[lordp]

100 on average and 60 uv's per day.

[supaul]

Most forums doesn't have much members base that actually contributes among the total visitors crowd. What you need is plenty of visitors. Build a good backlink profile so that you can get plenty of exposure atleast a 1000 per day.

[bsteve]

Choose a forum theme that really attractive and promote it through different channels.

[mediamonster]

Create more and more content its the simplest answer.

[brian]

If its content rich then try to promote it properly. People often don't do that and then a forum fails.

What kind of promotion is your friend doing?

[lordp]

If its content rich then try to promote it properly. People often don't do that and then a forum fails.

What kind of promotion is your friend doing?

Through social channels and groups.

[steveposter]

To make the forum interesting it must have an active moderator or admin to handle the site and maintain the members activeness.