i would go for social bookmarking,article submission and facebook groups advertising and twitter.. these are my best methods.

Are the directory .com's with PR ..?? i might be interested if they ae high quality directory..

I'm using twitter for promoting my skincare forum and results have been quite impressive.. and i'm networking all skincare,beauty,makeup members there..

There are many webmaster forums and its very hard to come up with the comptitation.. but anyway first is a vbulletin script..to keep a trust for members that u can afford to pay for site promotion.....

Yup google has disable Video ads.. by da way green u have bumped 2 yrs old thread..hihhi

if you are searching forums and don't want to pay stupid money. why don't you reset your own forum and start form the scratch with ur prev sql database..

i might be interested what is forum about.

i'm interested in medicine and scientific research links can you pm me the pricing and site details please.

as said above participate in related forums.post some good contents,post some polls that might get guest interested to vote and so so.

yea its a good idea if you have good ranking blogs ,see peoples like shoemoney,jensense, jole comm do site reviews for $500 or more just for one post ,yea its worth if you have good site so...

wow those were really some good points thankx for sharing many will benifit from it.

well just buy Vb and stick to only one forums rather than 3 else mybb is also better and free.
Don't just try to make 3 forums at a time its very hard to maintain forums.just stick to one first.

The best thing is go to related forums and advertise.

well let me check i might be interested.

How do you guys do i stumbled new site and only got around 3K visitors the first day . 14k is a huge traffic.

i agree Dp has more active members in buy and sell section and due to revenue sharing memebrs are more.

Sorry to say but i find rather difficult here finding the right forum cause daniweb is too...

thankx that was worthy,i always thought of PR but never tried,well i guess i'm gonna try this time.

i would prefer:

igg.com
Technorati.com
del.icio.us
Propeller.com
StumbleUpon.com
reddit.com
blinklist.com
netvouz.com

hey i'm interested can you please pm me.

go for social bookmarking and article submission,this had increase my traffic by 1000+unique per day.

i see the niche and see what visitors want from my site,i mean what my site don't have that visitors are interested in (should be a related niche ) and put those targeted ads rather than whole...

if you really want to earn real and more they are not worth.

too expensive buddy lower the price.

it all depends on your budget and your forum niche...

Like posting contest for money or for something give away for post "that prize must relate to your niche".

nope its better to put your articles in your own site.you could better submit to social bookmarking sites.this will generate links and traffic.

as everyone do a unique contain and socialbookmaring like digg and netscape.
this will bring huge traffic if your content is unique.and google gets you soon in your site.

so he is gone...please be specific if you want a good answer.how can we know what type of site you are planning to run.if we know we could give specific suggestions.

The one and only "unique Content"

See that Mcruff note her point. see she is everywhere ,so we also feel like friendly admin and helpful,bacause she is there in every conversation,this is the way to attract members.

sure VB is seo friendly there is no doubt for that.

thankx i'll go for facebook.com

thankx for suggestions .changed my signature.

hi just opened one medical forum site so need your suggestions

so what i'll be doing is go to yahoo msn groups myspace groups and joining medical groups so i get some members .as this is medical...

well i'm interested is it still there.

the best thing is ,signup yourself with 8-10 ids and start talking to yourself,you will get fun yourself and other will thing forum is active and sign in and start contest from the first and and post...

phpads is free i guess.

yea they post for free ,but unless there are some members and post who would get interested in it,so to populate some member and posts have to give some money to posts.

yea main is contain ,i absolute agree with "MamawDenise "
do as said

say the truth i don't believe on paid posting services provided by companies ,
i would better get some members by paying them just to join and post like 30-50 ....then be close to them , pay then...

i don't really get your site post then url ,anyway which forum are you using

some important points may be:
1.forum layouts (make like a pro so members get interested
2.is forum busy? ( get...