A Guide To Minecraft Server Advertising

 We all know that playing on a Minecraft Server with no players online can get pretty boring. Most server owners dream of having the biggest and best Minecraft server, but it's easier said than done to create a server that will be able to attract players. There are many things that go into advertising a server. It is a good start to add your server to the MC list, but there are many more things. Voting with voting rewards, server development and the use server list and advertising websites are some of the most important aspects of advertising your server. You must be able create a Minecraft Server that others want to play on. You'll need to decide on the type of server type you want, depending on how big you want your player base. We will show you how to advertise your Minecraft Server.

 Advertising your Server

Server List

Posting your Minecraft Server to a server listing is one of most popular ways to get people to play on your server. Minecraft Server List are one of the most popular ways for new players to find fun servers to join. Most of the server lists are broken down by the highest amount of votes. This allows you to climb up in the ranking by setting up a voting plugin.

 Also, the list generally will put your server into a category called "New Servers" when you first add your server. This gives your server a boost and you almost always get an influx members the first day you upload it to this list. Once you get your community base started, it makes growing further far easier as these are the members who will advertise your server to their friends, vote for the server, and actively play on the server making it look more lively.

 With almost all of these server lists, you can pay for your server to be put into a sponsored category. This is quite an expensive way to advertise, but it's an option available to all.

Popular Server List

 Craft List is a great place to start! Craft List, as our partner is linked to our server panel so you can add your servers to it. To the top of your server panel, just click on "Connect to Craft-List".

 Minecraft Server List is one of the most popular list out there. If you upload your server to this site, you are almost always going to notice a huge influx of players on day one. Remember that you will be placed into the New Servers category the first day. To keep climbing up the ranks on this list, you should set up voting.

Minecraft MP is another popular server. This list is great if your server is a modded one or highly customized. You can search Minecraft MP for servers based upon versions, ping and server types.

 Minecraft Servers is one of the oldest lists around and is quite popular. It's always good to add your server to this platform as many people do use it to find new servers to play on.

 Voting Plugin

Voting will be a key part of your Minecraft Server server if you have added it to a list. Having a voting plugin does many things for the server, one of the biggest is simply the user interaction. Many server owners will set up rewards for the player base if they vote, this creates a huge demand for players to vote each day which will ultimately help your servers ranking on the Minecraft server lists.

The following plugins will allow you to set up voting on your server:

 You can view a tutorial on these two plugins here.

Proper development is probably the most important part of a server's success. Just as you would not want to play on a server that's poorly made, neither will others. It's very important that you truly take the time to both build/develop your Minecraft server before you release it to the public.

There are many paths you can take when developing your server. All of these options can bring different types or numbers of players and communities. You will want to create a Bungeecord network using minigames if you are looking for Hypixel. There are many game types that can be used on a single server that has a reasonable number of players, such as Survival, Towny and McMMO.

Apex fully understands the difficulties involved in developing a Minecraft Server.  Paxton's blog We have designed multiple gametypes that can be used to configure your Minecraft Server. A list of our gametypes is available here. You can also get a number of add-ons for your server which will allow our team to assist with server development. These addons include the premium support addon, plugin installation, and modpack creator addon.

Many server owners have a dream of creating a popular Minecraft server. Anyone can create a successful server, as long as they understand what they are doing. When you are ready to set up your server, all the points in this guide will be covered. If you want to be successful as a server administrator, there are many responsibilities.