[Dynamite]

As far as i'm aware we are the only June Brown forum on the net. The board's theme concentrates on her career and EastEnders, in which she has played Dot Cotton for nearly 20 years. I'm not sure how to target members, can anyone help?

[Hector]

Well, this is something very new to me. I really don't know how to deal with this sort of forum.

But you can try this:

Try to find some form of fan base of hers. Advertise your forum there. Even ask the one's incharge seeing as how you said your forum is the one and only.

[chrymo]

try accenting your strengths and do as much SEO stuff to get the word out, Hector is right, find her fan base(sites made by her fans) and go advertise it there, even regular boards have problems with members (moreover active members)... so better be patient

[Dynamite]

Could you guys elaborate further please?

[Michael]

Easiest way to increase traffic, diverse into a more generic forum.
For example instead of being entirely devoted to Dot try having 4 forums for her discussion, 4 forums for Eastenders discussion and 4 forums for the discussion of General related stuff. This way you are generating the largest possible appeal for your forums target audience.

Perhaps you could contact the BBC and ask them to link your forums from the Dot Cotton biography page, or something similar to that.

[Dynamite]

Like this, see my forum-

http://junebrown.no-ip.org

[Michael]

As i said before your Eastenders forum is by far the most active, try expanding it a little bit more instead of being so deeply focused on just June?

[Mario]

use topsites, tell everyone you know about your site, use search engines.

[Dynamite]

Don't worry i have done what has been said Mario. Thanks everyone for the help, and Mike i will expand. Thanks.

[Michael]

Originally Posted By: Dynamite Don't worry i have done what has been said Mario. Thanks everyone for the help, and Mike i will expand. Thanks.

Keep us posted on your sites development, would be interesting to see how your members and post count improved after our suggestions.

[//Aneurysm\\]

Yes. I just started a Nirvana forum, and you need to join another forum of the same kind and advertise there. That is what I would do.

[Reaperducer]

http://junebrown.no-ip.org

It might also help to get a real web address. Some people believe that search engines penalize sites hosted the way yours is because they're often run by people on their home machines who aren't serious about their web sites.

If you could get www.junebrownforum.com that might help.