[MRGTB]

Don't just rely on search engines alone.

You need content and lots of it. It's a simple case of mathematics. The more pages you have with content on your site. The more pages will get indexed in search engines, which in turn will increase your chances of getting hits due to the amount of pages indexed from your site to find by users.

It's all about content at the end of the day, you can submit your site to a zillion search engines and install the likes of vBSEO and all, but if you only have a few pages with content on your site (and I mean real content, not two lines of dribble that won't attract anybody to join). Your not going to get many hits due to the lack of pages you have indexed or members joining becuase the content is rubbish.

You just can't escape the fact you need "good content" at the start (articles are way best), and that were people are lazy, they think they can setup a board and sit back after submitting it to search engines. Thinking people will come and do all the hard work for them in adding content. It just doesn't work that way! And it's the main reason why so many people come asking how to get members after there board is in place and they have submitted it to every search engine known to man.

Best thing you can do is just submit your site to the 3 top search engines (Yahoo, Google and MSN). Then get to work adding quality content such like articles over the next few weeks. Most people only use these 3 search engines anyway, so I wouldn't bother with the rest. At some point they will find there own way to your site as the content grows.