That's the golden rule, never give up :)

It takes hard work to take off, but after that is really nice to see the results :)

The only thing I found working is changing the post variables in the register process.

Spammers use bots, that know your forum software. So for instance if you are using the X software they know...

Relevant forums are a great option to get some good links and promote your site.

As you are selling products, you may also try to use ebay for more sales.

I want some link partners for my new article directory (http://www.articlesaz.com) web site.

Here is how it works :

You add one link from any page of your site you like pointing to mine, and...

That's true. Forums are not money makers.

Adsense is a good option, but as the people before me allready said, you can't expect much from your traffic.

Try the above link for some better...

Yeah I almost forgot of those.

I was getting good traffic from them back in the 90's, but for now I don't think that they can work.

Try other free traffic based promotions such us toplists.

I will agree with pulse.

Pagerank is about links, don't confuse this with the SERPs.

But I heared that in the latest pagerank update, there were some other factors added for the calculation,...

I guess as a forum's admin/moderator you reply to other people's questions more often than you ask something.(at least that is what I do :) )

But this doesn't mean that you don't enjoy your forum...

Ok. Thanks for your comment :)

I see. My forum has not so big activity as there are only about 300 members with 7500 posts, so I keep repling on every post, but I am really not sure if this is good. On the other hand leaving those...

At that part I would like to make a question. Is it good to post on every single thread in your forum? Isn't this image of the 'one man show' bad for you? I mean that if you start making threads and...

That's a very general question, and that really depends on you.

I have a forum with about 300 members, and the forum hasn't yet come to a state that can grow alone.
But for instance I meat today...

Thanks for your comments :)

Very good thread :)

I read here that SEO experts say that pagerank is not used by Google anymore.

If that's true then why they keep wasting their multimillion dollar resources to keep it alive?...

That's an uknown word for me. Can you please explain?

About the links, the key in my opinion is the content. No matter how many link partners you have or whatever else you have done to get linked...

I thought self promotion is not allowed in this forum

Article bots? Propably you show that to my forum right?

I have this option to my forum (some bots posting news to the site), but to pretend the spam feeling for my members, I have deactivated...

I agree. After all if a one line reply is a spam message you can allways delete the post.

After an extended search in the forum, I haven't find anything good about this topic, so I thought to start one.

Well everybody knows that a contest can bring lots of traffic and conversions to a...

I think the worst thing that can you do in a webmaster forum is to post a 'success story' of yours.

Before some days a kid had started a topic on another webmaster forum, of how he made 700$ in...

First of all 2000 visitors per month is fine for a new site, especially in your market where there are thousands of sites.

If your site's pages are allready optimized for the basics (h1, h2,...

I will advice to submit your site to as many directories as you can.

It helps with the rankings, even if you don't have any SEO knowledge.

Maybe the two forums run on different versions?

If that is the case, put the version of phpBB that you have to your enstablished forum, and then upgade the new one.

Yes you can, but as both of the server work in the port 80, you should have alive one at a time.

We are looking for talented designers to design two logos for our web sites.

This is a contest, and the prize is $50 for each logo.

More details can be found here :
...

No it is not like that. It has a template system(very good one) and the default templates are XHTML and CSS validated.

www.thetopsites.net
pagerank 5
indexed pages : 33.000 (Google)

Price list : http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,760.0.Free+and+paid+advertising.html

I use SMF. It is very easy to mod (if you know some php ofcourse)

In the past I have used phpBB too, but it is too unsecure and produces big overhead to the server.

A sticky post could help a little, but the fact is that the most of these people are just spammers, so the only solution is to delete their posts.

I would like to comment some of the opinions that you gave here.

First I think that deactivating signatures or any solution like this can cause only problems.

The objective is not to get rid of...

I believe that if you don't enjoy your community like a regular member, then you are not in the right way to make your forum a success.