I need some good suggestions to get more visitors & new members to my forums (http://www.webdevshack.com/forum/). I will be advertising it on similar websites soon. I started a untargeted campaign with targetvisitors.info, but that hasn't helped too much yet..

What else can I do? Run contests? I was thinking of running a contest to give a free domain name + 6months/1 year of hosting to a lucky member.

Help me

Hi,

Saw a link for this discussion while Googling and thought I'd add my .02.

There are a few small tricks that may or may not work. First, visit the websites of people who share your interests and be sure to post about your forum in their guestbooks.

Second, visit message boards that have folders for forum links, post about your forum, and link to it.

My forum has such a folder. It's called "Your Announcements", and you are welcome to come and post a message there so that anyone who is interested can find you. The same goes for anyone else here who would like to advertise a forum or message board that is not a hate site or an adult site. The URL is http://www.gojabber.com/1/start/logi...btag=pollvault

Hope to see you there! :-)