Things not thread worthy

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(04-19-2014 12:23 PM)BrutalBodyShots Wrote:  Is our forum member count dropping or something? I feel like this forum has been much less active as of late compared to how it was say 6 months ago. There's only ever maybe 3-5 active threads. What gives?

I do feel the quality of the content on this forum is there; all of you guys are awesome and add tremendous value to it. There simply needs to be more quantity.

There used to be a thread for literally every medium profile and above upcoming fight that would have a couple of pages of discussion prior to the fight even happening. Tonight we've got a Hopkins fight (albeit against a relative unknown) and no thread for it and no discussion.

Either it is what it is or we can try to recruit some more members to get some more activity around here. I used to visit the forum several times per day, now I'm more of a once or twice a week guy which sort of sucks.

Anyone have any bright ideas to drum up a little more buzz around here? Maybe scout out a few knowledgeable guys from other forums and let them know about this place? I suppose it couldn't hurt.

A few of us blitzed the other forums, and I took steps to increase our SEO with the major search engines. What SEO is for those that don't know is "Search Engine Optimization". Google and the other major search engines have algorithms for different search options. That's a technical way of putting it...a more everyman way is: When you type "Bernard Hopkins" in the search window, Google tries to figure out what you are trying to find. It puts the highest likelihood up top. For this example, articles about his current victory should appear. Then his wiki page, then his boxrec, then anything else that Google thinks you want to know.

One of the reasons that Google pretty much lives here is because of our SEO programs. We are basically telling Google and the other big search engines to hang out in our forum and catalog what we're talking about. So if someone searches a topic, HOPEFULLY we'll have an active thread about it that pops up near the top of their search results.

Anyway, that is a lot of words to answer your question...but more simply...the more you post about trending topics, the more people will see it, and possibly click to see what we have to say. If they click and like (or hate) what is said, then they MIGHT join the forum and make a comment about it. If the interaction is interesting enough, good or bad, then they might come back and post more. That is pretty much how this works in a nutshell. We also simultaneously post new topics on Twitter and Facebook, so the possibility of reaching people extends beyond the SEO.

That is what I'm doing to try to bring new posters, but honestly my main concern is with the people already here. The guys that have been posting together for more than a decade. I lost sleep when the board was deleted last month. I was really upset that we lost all of those posts and threads. One of the main reasons that BU was started was to give us a place to BS about boxing without worrying about our shit getting deleted. I really love what critic said, "I'm not here for what it was, i'm here for WHAT IT IS BAYBAY!"