Hello.

[Joshie]

How can I encourage more members to join a website for webmasters, and freelancers? It's hard.

[happygeek]

Yep, it is hard. But, like any member based website there is no big secret involved. It requires the following:

hard work
providing something people really want
giving it to them in a way they like
giving them a reason to keep coming back
more hard work

[Joshie]

Alright, thanks for the advice!

[Dani]

Good luck! Unfortunately, that's a really oversaturated market right now (there are way too many webmaster forums out there). You might wish to provide free classifieds ads for the freelancers.

[selfhelpebooks]

Free ad sites
Pay Per Click
Spreading the word (forums, blogs)

.. A lot of work!

[homehtml]

You need to offer something of value. Ask your self what can I offer that the other site's don't have..

Also try to build incoming traffic. You can have the best site in the world, but if you dont have a traffic and marketing plan, you will sit their and waiting for traffic..

Setup a blog and submit blog directories, the same for articles and submit to article blog directories. Their are many other ways to get traffic, do a search on this forum ..

Like cscgal has said, their are many forums online with your topic, I thinkg what you should do is sub niche niches topics..

But I would advise build traffic first..