The site looks great from say a few months ago.
Now you need to focus your energy on getting people to the website and staying there.
That'd be the best thing you said all this time. But everything else you've said in this post - not so good....
Obviously you have people visiting the website, but noone is sticking around.
Obviously you haven't been there. So, I'm going to go ahead and ignore this little jab.
Forget all these carlos360x etc network...create a decent community first and then do all that. It seems that you were so intent on creating a network and your time got divided and everything is stuttering as a result.
Another jab, doesn't seem to be the problem.
Dont be a douche on your website. Judging by your well you deal with criticism on this site, i hope you arent like that on your own website. People dont like to be controlled or have a heavy handed mod.
I do not appreciate how you called me names here, so for this particular reason... Reported. I'm not a douche, so if you got nothing good to say - DON'T SAY IT.
You have a very high rate of people who visit your site and never go back there again. That means that people are not finding what they are looking for. For example i have 80% return visits, 45% come to the site via search engines.
I find that hard to believe. Good day.
Create content, create competitions, create events, create controversy, create something!
I. AM. CREATING. CONTENT. You are
blind if you don't see it! I even listed the relevant network links at the bottom if they like blogs instead. Some people like blogs, some people like forums. I built this network to feed BOTH.
As it is right now, what incentive does anyone on your site have to post?
Contests would be that big one - give, and you get back. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of capital right now. I have 3 plans ready for the next 2 years (this year and next year) to fix this "incentive." However, this will have to do for now.
In the hope that someone will reply to them 3-4 weeks later?
That's why I don't force people to sign up.
If you're cool enough, people find you/your site even cooler.
(by which team they might have signed upto another more active forum?)
Whole point of network - really.
Take the advice given on here. Stop being so defensive and appreciate the fact that people want to help. You are so engrossed in your own world about being a 'online marketer', but its obvious you arent doing a very good job of it. You are so focussed on creating a network where you already started thinking about what chandelier to put in the living room without even laying the floor. Start from the basics, thats all i can say to you. Stop trying to believe that 'it will eventually work out by itself'. It wont. Focus on smaller things and then go about the empire once you actually have a solid footing.
More "you're not doing a good job of this and that." I'm going to ignore this, more negative crap. Blocking negativity.
Either that or go into a partnership with a forum owner who knows what they are doing and has a decent forum.
Not goting to do this. I already tried this once, and I'm not going have my hand or my heart burned again.
"Fool me once, fool me twice, shame on you."
They will be able to teach you quite a bit, and its a lot easier when there are a few stakeholders rather than just one. Or sell it. Because right now, its a waste of the domain name and the SEO juice it has.
You'd love to have me sell this, don't you. Nah. No. Not doing that.
The only way people become "stakeholders" is through my company. I will not give stake in my company to anyone I don't trust. And likewise I won't allow my keys to my castle ever again. Not going through that grief again.
), it's surely the content(or lack of)
