Ahh! the age old question of getting traffic to your website.

The best and most effective traffic to a website is from a search engine i.e. the major site like google, msn and yahoo.

- SEO...

Well when i create a new website i never submit my website to a search engine. I have always let the search engine find me. The bestway is once your website it online and ready you start your link...

For a forum you will need to have fresh and new treads on a daily basis so you can encourage people to join and ceep coming back to your forum.

Also a forum that looks nice also does make people...

There are alot more i just googled podcast

here is the link

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-31,GGLG:en&q=podcasts

http://podcasts.yahoo.com/
http://www.podcast.net/

Hello just wondering how you are going with your forum.

Have you created one yet?
How many members?
whats your url?
What is your target audience?

Cheers

also with some of those forum mods the poster can get away with a couple of characters and just a many spaces to fill the charactes or by .........'s

I think that there is no need for it since as...

Yes word of mouth is the best source of quality visitors for a forums point of view.

I would not personally buy a website from ebay since there are alot of websites that state that they are established but are not also there are heaps of turnkey websites that are sold. So why will...

well my point of view is that forums are a great way of gaining/sharing knowledge also to meet people where you are able to share the same intrests as you have. But if you own the forum why not also...

Well if i was requiring the service i will ask for references from other customers and see if i am able to read the posts they have posted on previous forums. I think it is a good idea to kick start...

well when you are buying a established forum you will need to monitor and see how many users are active since there are many forums that are for sale that have say 500 subscribers but only 10% are...

well there are heaps of mods out there that are made from freelance coders, Just have the time to find the mod. I think also PHPBB's website has the mod on there database.

Best of luck

All you need to do is have very basic knowledge of html and may need to know abit od SQL if a database is required and follow the instructions word for word, It is also a great experience,

Good...

well all you need to have is a descriptive phrase of your site.

E.G. fast banners in no time,
budget quality hosting,

And so on

Well good luck with the banner.

well it will all depend on where i will advertise and if the forum will provide a greater return than i spend on advertising the site.

thats right to many mods can be very cofusing and disturbing to some visitors.

well just a thought the content management system MAMBO is a great CMS to use and will be suitable for your needs since you will be able to post articles, There is a forum mod to intergrate the forum...

well the thing is that mods wont attract visitors. the content of the forum and the activity of the forums members will make you stand out

If your web host is providing you with cpanel then you may be able to install a forum from there since it is automated. But if they dont the all you need to do is download the type of board you want...

Im currently offering free email solutions on my website. I have not yet tried to add any advertising material on the webmail service i offer but i have thought of various ways to increase revenue...

It will depend on how you advertise your forum, If your forum has threads that are interesting for a guest to turn into a active member

My site is a portal << snipped to comply with forum policy >> and i uses mambo OS and it is great and i would say far better than PHP-Nuke or Post-Nuke. If you need any help with anythink in setting...