New working idea for converting guest to members

[Gauravk]

Just for everyone FYI, we have noted substantial increase (5-6 times) in creating new members in last two weeks after implementing this new change.

We restricted the guest access to read any inside pages (topics, classifieds, business listing etc) for 15 secs only. Guest can still stroll through out the board and see the content count and list of forums and sub forums for unlimited time.

This invisible ad slot (only for guest) has been triggered 46000 times in last 17 days = 2700 / day.

I highly recommend this for board that has too many guest and too little members online.

Click here and wait for 15 secs: https://carnity.com/topic/11239-nissan-dubai

How to implement: https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/423416-how-to-restrict-guess-access/

Feel free to ask any question, I am happy to help (though I am still unable to crack the last tiny bit).

 

[ABGenc]

Does it have any affect on Google indexing ? Did it rise any error on Webmaster Tools ?

[Rheddy]

Seriously? That's fine if you're trying to inflate yourself forum membership but that just results in hundreds of registered members who never post anything. I have my site openly available to guests and registered members, which is something I have never had a problem with. Sure, at one point I had 235 guests logged on at the same time, but pressuring visitors to register to browse your content just sounds a little too far out there. I've found previously that most visitors who don't want to register will just find somewhere else to go.

I've actually had guests who had lurked or just browsed my website and forum community who were encouraged to register and to become contributing members. Just sounds too restricting to guests who visit your site. The only way I can see to do that is if you're experiencing high server loads.

[Gauravk]

@ABGenc: No new issue reported from GWT, apart from one pending issue since 2 months where GWT fail to index about 4500 pages after we implemented SSL. Reported same to IPB and GWT support forum but no action. And yes its surely after SSL implementation and even after proper redirects and enforcing https thru htaccess.

@Morisato: I know what you are saying, but sadly in today's world not even 1% understand the meaning of community, "where you help and get help" and not the one way road. This community culture was amazing from 2006-12 and after that forums are dying everywhere, unless tied to some incentive, pressure or reputational sake.

We got this idea from Quora and Pinterest, how they restrict users after the first visit and yet open to some extent. And I seriously like the idea of Yahoo answers and will definitely pursue that to build the point system to charge for asking question, which everyone has to earn by posting helpful answers. That's what I see it as a complete sustainable community package.

It's purely a community choice to take this route or not as to build 100 good people community than 50,000 of lurkers and wasting resources. Check here how we have further enforce this idea to create a closed circle loop to giving free access to "participating members only": https://carnity.com/store/?do=register.

[opentype]

10 minutes ago, Gauravk said:

We got this idea from Quora and Pinterest, how they restrict users after the first visit and yet open to some extent.

Yeah, I hate that and don’t register at sites which apply these cheap tricks to force a higher member count. It encourages me to never come back, instead of registering. 

 

10 minutes ago, Gauravk said:

It's purely a community choice to take this route or not …

I can agree to that.