Thread: Suggestions?

Just wondering if you guys has any suggestions for the forums. Any new categories, features or improvements you have in mind would? Let me know.

More traffic

Facebook fan page, "targeted" traffic, YouTube videos that explain what people can find here.

Hmmm, I like the Youtube idea, not so much Facebook. Any other ideas?

On the old markee dragon, they used to do something called "Member Awards"

Most Trusted Trader etc.... you can think of all sorts of things, just to give people on here something to work for to have a goal and a reason to spend time here aside buying / selling accounts, focus on turning this place into more of a community than a trading / marketplace, it will benefit a lot more in the long run, both financially and generally.

Just my 2 cents.

I get the biggest life turnaround award right?


(More-so a post for mods and older members who knew what I used to do!)

thanks for the suggestion Rank1, I'll see what I can do.

Revert the bumping rule to 5 threads max for the frontpage. Get rid of the Professional Reseller forum as it gets no traffic because of the positioning within the forum.

As far as general traffic, it is definitely down. I have not seen it as worse as it has been in the WoW forums since these past two weeks.

Generating traffic is always a top priority, so I will continue working on getting more.

I don't think the position of the Pro Reseller forum has anything to do with the lack of activity in it. Its next to the Powerlevling which is very active as well as the General Account and General buy/sell/trade forums. I think it's inactive because buyers aren't really interested in resellers. However I'm not against removing it either. I'll think it over.

I prefer 3 max threads over 5, it gives individual sellers more time for their threads to display.

Bring back the Top 10 Stats box at the bottom of the forum (or even at the top). It enables people to see what the newest posts are in a very quick manner.

that was removed for the purpose of speeding up the forum loading time. It pulls up a lot of stats on each page load and doesn't cache, so it it was causing high server loads during peak hrs.

You can click the "What's New" or "new posts" in the top left

Some people like to stream their games no matter what they are playing, personally I stream my wow/league play. Any chance of adding a livestream area to the site, basically could just be an area of the site with embedded live streams?

A live stream of games doesn't really fit with the site. People come here to buy/sell/trade accounts, not watch other people play games. So I'll have to say no to that one.

I did setup a Youtube channel though, right now there's only 3 videos which are basically tutorials on how to use the auction site.
MMOBaynet's Channel - YouTube

If anyone has any suggestions on videos they'd like to see, let me know.

I think MMOBay is still getting good traffic for buy/sell accounts but as far as power leveling services, I have seen a huge decline in MMOBay customers over the course of the past 6 months.

I'm not sure how much of your traffic goes into the forums but...
Analyzing the site's SEO I think the site would benefit from more first time visitors being funneled into the forums rather than the auction portion of the site.

I believe most first time visitors who are new to RMT in general don't realize there are forums and walk away when they only see auctions which are not generally not lazy person friendly

I would love to see the forums as more than a small button on the nav menu, maybe a description of the forums at least

If you take into account the fact that there have been more people that have played wow and quit than there are that currently hold subs it makes sense that most of them are new to mmos and RMT. I think this fact is grossly overlooked in general.

Speaking from personal experienced - I have never used the auction portion of this site and have no desire to. I would so much rather talk to my buyer directly on AIM to work something out before a price is decided on.

I believe this could generally produce more traffic in general with the right SEO guidance. If you want some free advice (I sell professional SEO) feel free to PM me

I love this site and want to see it thrive