Best way to ad server, so players get in

[i/like/tf2]

Hello! Could somebody please tell me, where is best place to advertise server, so players come in? Server is not big, only 20 slots. I know, in this forum is already "The Big Commercial Pit". Thank you

[Stinkyfax]

Advertising has always been a hard bit, if you find some communities where you can advertise SRCDS server please let us know
Some tricks which help maintain population: keep crowd entertained; gather your steam community where you will put some events; listen to your players, hear their suggestions (many are dumb but some are really nice ); you can go further and try stealing players from other servers by advertising there, though people might start hating you and it is considered as bad behaviour..

[i/like/tf2]

That shall do the trick . Thank you

[gamemann]

I made a topic like this on plenty of other forums. And all they said it wait time. And i said i don't want to wait. But i actually learned that if you wait some time your server will get popular. I guess it just takes some time. Heres some good tips:
- good hostname(ex: mine is: [<hostname>] 24/7 <gamemode>|<features>)
- fast server(no lag)
- make events and announcements and make friends and tell them to invite their friends
- good forum(i got a good forum but isn't active which sucks :\ )
- advertise the server best as you can
- and last of all just wait some time

Sorry if this is offtopic or whatever. But it will eventually work.
some tips i tried that really can help:
- make videos of the server and post it on a popular youtube channel(mine channel is sourcemodscripter so you can see how popular my channel is)
Hope this helps.
thanks,
gamemann

[Mike]

It takes atleast a month to "etablish" a good gameserver.