Forum visitors

[spechackers]

How could i increase visitors to my forum, i need some good ways apart from advertising.

[Scott]

In my experience, the best thing to do is add more content. If you can, get some friends to help you out. Content is the key to getting a successful forum. ;)

[HostFrog]

Agreed, also does it help to have search engine spiders welcomed on the board?

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

It doesn't ever hurt -- something like 2% of unique visitors come from Google alone (and about .2% from all other search engines combined)

If you have severe bandwidth limitation issues, though, crawlers aren't for you. Crawlers use 3x the bandwidht of regular users according to AWStats

[Banana]

ya, bandwith is generally cheap so if you have extras then let them crawl away :)

[unfv]

some google marketing could be great (after adding lot of content)

[spechackers]

How about advertising in top networks where there are a lot of traffic. would it produce results.

I would like to have suggestions and reviews over this.

Google Adwords Versus a Top network where there is more traffic ( they have their own mediakit )

[unfv]

excuse my ignorance and lack of english fluenty but what do you mean with Top network?

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

Some of the most-used networks, like Google AdWords and Overture.