What do you think makes people wanna register?

LostWithin · Post by **LostWithin** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:13 pm

I have recently created foxhalo.com and have noticed only 13 people have registered, Although we get a whopping 700 hits a day.

How did you bring people onto registering at your website and or what do you think makes them want to register(what would make you want to register)

Im looking for advice because my advertisment methods are failing miserably.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:17 pm

Try going to some webmaster forums to ask for advice...users want unique content.

For instance, there's about a thousand Halo websites. What makes yours stand out? Do you have a unique tool or mod that is going to draw people to your site? Can you consistently provide said unique content?

Just think basic things...what would make YOU want to join the website?

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:40 pm

Well most of the 45,000+ accounts here were made just to download and nothing else.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:43 pm

fishface617 wrote:Well most of the 45,000+ accounts here were made just to download and nothing else.

That might be true, but there is a large amount of activity (whether it be in the form of account creations or posts) every day. We have slowed down because it's been so long since Halo 2 has come out, but once Halo 2 Vista comes out, there should be a bit more people joining per day, and a whole new category of mods.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:54 pm

A website not sucking would make more people join.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:19 pm

Well, yea, GTAF, but what i mean is there certainly are not 47,746 active accounts. Thousands of them were made in order just to download mods and nothing else. Well possibly the occasional "Hi gais im nu to da forums adn liek how od I put skiins in to HMT?!?!1?"

And even more accounts will be made after H2V and H3 are out as you said. Very few of them will be accounts like mine or yours, which here to stay and post actively.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:22 pm

Well I know I just stay at this forum as long as I have is to learn talk to people.. and check things out. It's like, if your friends all our on a website, you are probably goning to join and post with them. But say, you make an account to download something, and all they see is mabye one flame, which is probably jsut a misunderstanding, and they download some proj. swap mod.. They will get the wrong picture of the forum and leave.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:34 pm

i was told there were free porn passes in here, boy was i fooled.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:39 pm

Exclusive content, be that regular competitions with prizes, mini games, or just excellent modding tools or maps.

Problem though is people don't necessarily know the site exsists and generally if I see someone's sig on here saying "Join my forum!" I check it out if I'm bored only to find that its extremely similar to halomods...Only halomods has activity and content...

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:43 pm

register with google and pick good key words. use your meta tags wisely. i remember when i first got into modding i probably checked out every forum i could, most were found through google and other serch engines. then came content, i registered at every one that had something special, exclusive like scotty said. then i stayed at every one that was fairly active, i still visit a few different ones today but as far as modding goes halomods is where i reside, for better or for worse.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:45 pm

Pay me and I'll make that exclusive content

Although I doubt my content would get people registering...But at least I get paid.

r0tten · Post by **r0tten** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:51 pm

the whole "exclusive to mimesis" plan gained them alot of publicity. it might help. maybe ask a few people to do you a favour. the worst they could say is no.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:45 am

When you come into custom games nagging people to register, it doesn't go down well either