Hi, I run a new up and coming website / community / message board for the game World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and in the past few days I've had a healthy boom of visitors, around 2,000 unique hits in 4-5 days! And not to mention google has been crawling the crap out of my site... anyways
Out of these 2,000 or so unique hits, only 4 people registered.. should this be expected or how would you suggest I increase my registration rate?
No, some people are interested, i can tell.. because they read like every page of my site, or at least the 6 or 7 more popular pages.. but they just seem to have no incentive to register.. they just come, abuse me and leave! lol!
I am making sure to add content every day because google is spidering my site so much.. but I think it is because I took over a keyword I didn't even intend to X_X.
SFOD, I'm thinking of running a contest, what do you think?
It's easy, you just have to offer your visitors something worth having in exchange. What that is will depend on who your visitors are, and what sort of things will tempt them.
As they are gamers then you could offer a free draw to win a bundle of games every so often, or other peripherals that they can use.
Do you provide them the possibility to post without registration. There may be some problem thats why people don't need to register.
May the visitors who had come don't have info about the related game you have on forum. And they dont think of registration due to not much important info. for them so they will have to comeback again.
My suggestion is that you should analyse the factors by having depth info. about the visitors coming to your site...