I have recently put up a forum based on free shells and resources , i know there is so many people interested in shells and ways of getting them free and ofcourse there is people interested in resources and i think my forum is quite unique as i have not found many shell resources on the web if any. It's only been up for about 2-3 day's and ive found my forum on google a few times so that's look's great but i can't get people to register lol they come and they do look around but they don't register.. anyone have any suggestions on getting people to register?

(Sorry if this is the wrong forum)

Do they have something to register for, i mean you can go to a forum and download stuff. But if you don't have to register first, the you are just acting like a 'mirror' server.

Get some discussions happening, competitions, friends to come sign up and make somethings look good. If you have an empty forum, t doesn't look to inviting.

Can't you also make them register before reading the forums w/ the info they are looking for? If they can read the kind of info they are looking for w/o registering, then why bother? If you give them a reason to register(give them generic knowledge and an idea of what's inside the users forum) in an open area, they'll feel a need to register to get the rest of the information they are looking for.

Yea , i alway's make a forum viewable but not readable untill a user has registerd , there is some content but alot of people just look at the amount of user's and just close there browser or go to a new site heh , just gotta find out how to keep them there! lol