Hi
here is a list of links that will help you guys generate traffic and in - turn members:

Paid advertisments

www.taxitraffic.net - Offers cheap pop under traffic.
www.google.com/ads - Offer paid contextual advertisments.
www.revenuepilot.com -Again Offers paid contextual advertisments.

Link Building

Some points:

• Make sure the site has an equlvilant Rank as yours.

• Ensure the site is related to yours.

• Most search engines see real importance in one way links then reciprical linking.

• Paid one way link building is not generally a bad idea. (contray to popular opinon

Forum Signatures

Generally a very good idea, but ensure that you abide by the forums rules and do not SPAM!

Guys please add your resources to this thread.

I've tried a couple of those "paid traffic" places, that promise to bring targetting traffic to your site. There was no benefit to me at all, no new members, no ad clicks, nothing. It's a waste of money, in my opnion.

It is the biggest unnoticed scam ever. All it does is use precious bandwith! Death to paid traffic I say!

What you might want is an affiliate program, where you will pay someone for referring others into your forums.

Another is to have a referral contest where the winner will not be based on the number of referrals but on the number of posts your referrals make.

I'm running a contest like this right now, on my site HappyHourPub.com.

Whoever gains the most "points" by the end of February will win an MP3 player. A user gets 2 points for every new thread they create, 1 points for replying to an existing thread, and 25 points for referring a new user to the site.

I'm just a disliker too all these affiliatte programs and ads! Maybe someone needs to help me and change my opinion?

You asked in another thread weather or not this site makes any money. How would it make money without haing ads and/or affiliates? We can sell advertising space, or place context sensitive ads (like the Adsense ads placed on all pages here) to generate some revenue.

Thanks for the information, it was pretty good

Yeah maybe you should put some ads on this site? Make a bit of money :P

Will you shouldn't hate it crash because it can really improve the traffic to your forum