Sports forums

[altyfc]

Hi everyone,

We have three forums. The travel one, which has been running the longest, does quite well and will reach the 10,000 post mark next month.

The business forum, launched more recently, is slowly picking up and I'm confident will do quite well given a little more time.

The sport forum, however, seems to really struggle and I just can't seem to figure out why. With the Super Bowl happening tonight, I had hoped we'd be quite established by now that we'd have plenty of discussion going on, but it just doesn't seem to be happening.

It's not like we don't do well on the SEs...

#1 http://www.google.com/search?q=sport+forum
#1 http://www.google.com/search?q=sport+forums
#1 http://www.google.com/search?q=american+football+forum
#4 http://www.google.com/search?q=super+bowl+forum
#5 http://www.google.com/search?q=superbowl+forum

We also do well for other sports searches - eg:

#1 http://www.google.com/search?q=rugby+forum
#2 http://www.google.com/search?q=athletics+forum
#3 http://www.google.com/search?q=cricket+forum
#6 http://www.google.com/search?q=basketball+forum
#7 http://www.google.com/search?q=boxing+forum

So... where are we going wrong? Any help appreciated...

Aaron

 

[ian]

Could be a number of reasons. Perhaps the level of competition for sports forums is much higher. Perhaps if someone is a fan of a particular sport, they prefer to chat on a forum which is entirely dedicated to that particular sport instead of a combined one with all the sports. Perhaps also the header image could be improved upon, perhaps something with a collage of the various sports.