Ways to get Guests to Register

[ACE]

What are some things you do on your forums to get people to sign up. More learning toward legal forums.

Instead of having just a register link, what else can be get to get them to register. Besides more content ofcourse.

ACE Reviewed by ACE on 23rd Apr 2011. Ways to get Guests to Register What are some things you do on your forums to get people to sign up. More learning toward legal forums. Instead of having just a register link, what else can be get to get them to register. Besides more content ofcourse. Rating: 5

[soft2050]

Adding a banner link to register.
Hidden links so that guest couldn't see the files (only if they are like premium accounts etc.)
Showing ads to guests only and adding text link to have less ads, plz register.....

[Commander]

Hiding dl links for unregistered users. I recommend it, too. Greetz.

[The90sKid]

he is more leaning towards legal forums. hiding dl links would only work for warez forums

the register & see no ads thing works well. i've fallen for that each and every time.

[SuicidalMedia]

It depends on the type of your forum. Are you sure that you have the content that potential users would like? If you are, work on the Index page a little bit. Put the links to the About us text, site mission text, etc. Stuff like that, so potential user could see that he really has something to do on your forum.

[Shadow008]

hide download links/disable right click/add BIG Banner to Join the site/add some ads for guests,and when they join,make it ads free for members (make sure you add this announcement for your guests in Red

[Scheme]

bombard the user with popups until he or she either (a) registers, (b) dies.

jk.

[Daniel]

What are some things you do on your forums to get people to sign up. More learning toward legal forums.

Instead of having just a register link, what else can be get to get them to register. Besides more content ofcourse.

Make a few images (banner/logos) with an interesting text or some professional graphics. The text on the image could say something about what you can get if you register. You can offer something to everyone that is registering. Everyone that register can join a pool and when there has been 20 people in the pool, a winner will be picked (random, of course). The price should be something related to your website. A free account of any file host account if you are running something in that area. You can hide all kind of links and make them visible only for registered members. All coded links can be hided and only be available for registered members. If you decide to do any of the two tips above you should make sure that the guest knows that the links are only available for registered members. A very interesting welcome text might get some extra attention. People are very different and we do react on different things. Some people gives their attention to free things, some people like good graphics, some people might want to know the hidden links. If you are running a very successful website, you can most likely force every new member to register before being able to view anything that is posted on the forum. If you have some interesting material, everyone would sign up. Do some heavy advertising on larger websites. Advertise with good text and/or graphics. Everything that is professional gets more attention no matter if it's a newbie or a more advanced user that is reading.

[Cojba]

close forum for guests, but let it open for google. All visitors from google will need to register if they want to see what they are looking for.,..

[EL-Warez]

Quality..that will keep them coming back and register.All these crap for images,texts and etc are fail.