How do i increase my forum traffic? (from scratch)

[jambab]

ok, i created my forum yesterday, and i want to know how i can get posters on it, its a health forum, im trying to look for free ways if possible since i havent got any money left, so is there actually a free and effective way to get posters onto my forum?

 

[Yami]

There's a lot of ways... you can probably find guides around the internet.
Here's a few off the top of my head:
banner ads for people to put in their sigs
telling friends to tell friends
advertise in forums

 

[carnageX]

Submit your site to search engines so their spiders/bots creep your forum to index it.

 

[KSoD]

SEO, Search Engine Optimization.

Check out how to do that and get your site submitted to Google, Live Search and Yahoo.

 

[b0dge]

Giving us a link might help too...

 

[office politics]

Submit your site to search engines so their spiders/bots creep your forum to index it.

How to Submit Your Site To Top 66 Search Engines | eHow.com

 

[Luke]

^66? the only ones people would go to are google,yahoo, and ask.....the others are so minimal in comparison. I'd just stick with those, no sense in wasting effort.

 

[office politics]

more links on more relevant sites will boost site / page ranking

plus its a program that does it for you, so why not? more exposure.

 

[Luke]

plus its a program that does it for you, so why not? more exposure.

Thats cool, did not know that,,,, might as well then...

 

[joeljonathan]

There is definitely no need to submit to 66 search engines. Actually there really isn't a need anymore to submit to any of the search engines because your site will get indexed and crawled as soon as you get it a few backlinks.