Many guilds out there have their recruitment posts up on both the realm forums and the global recruitment forums. One of the big keys to a recruitment post is to keep it up on the top of the forums so everyone sees it, and sees it before any other posts. This means that you and your guildies have to bump the post to the top of the list, and bump it quite often.The global recruitment forums recently underwent an upgrade, where the forums were split into Alliance and Horde factions. This has helped a bit with the number of posts per day, and has thus lessened the number of required bumps a recruitment posts needs to keep it on the front page.
However, you still have to bump it quite a bit.
I've found that a post falls off the front page of the recruitment forums about every two to three hours. This means that if you want your guild to have high visibility when recruiting, someone needs to be there every few hours to bump it back up.
This often falls to the officers of the guild to do the bumping. However that doesn't always look the best. It's often helpful to have other guild mates bump the posts too. It shows that the guild is involved in the management and recruitment of people, and that everyone cares (not that there aren't other ways to show this).
So get out there and do yourself a favor! Bump those recruitment posts!
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5-31-2008 @ 8:12PM
TheSloth said...
Would be nice if there was some unique way to do this. Perhaps some fields people can select so those looking can search on guild criteria... ie (casual vs harcore, Classes recruiting etc..) then there is less of a need to constantly bump as things would be sorted a little better.
And needing to constantly bump, kinda lame when you think about it.
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5-31-2008 @ 8:13PM
Snailking said...
bump.
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5-31-2008 @ 8:41PM
Tim said...
Maybe I'm missing something but shouldn't guild recruitment be tied to the realm forum? If I'm on one realm, why do I have to wade through endless posts from others?
Blizz should just code a simple guild recruitment tool. Set your realm and faction, and allow guilds and free agent players to match up. Shouldn't be too hard.
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5-31-2008 @ 9:37PM
Ezzy said...
If you want your realm's postings you should go to your realm's forum. The recruitment forum is basically there for people who are looking for guilds/people on a larger scale. A lot of end game guilds want the best they can get and have tapped your server's crop. You want people to transfer to your server (unless you are Mug'thol :-P) to bring fresh blood, I mean applicants.
5-31-2008 @ 11:26PM
Pucelle said...
Seriously, you made a post telling people to bump posts on the forums? Seriously?
Do you have some kind of weblogging Tourette's, where you just make posts about random stuff indefinitely? Will we be seeing your "How to click on links on WoW.com" post soon?
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6-01-2008 @ 2:06AM
Moongoose said...
Another well received Adam Holisky post.
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