How the hell do you get people to a site?

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Originally Posted by final kaoss

It always has been a no-no to poach members from other communities. However, promoting something unique on your site is a different matter.. All you have to do is leave a small snippet & a link to it after becoming established with the other community if they allow it.

If you think this is fine and will work, just tip me the word and I will give you a list of sites I would like a link on, with my unique feature that no other soccer forum has, and we will count the links that appear in my analytics after say two weeks.

I'll bet it will be slightly less than 1, and you will be banned from most if not all of the site for spamming.
You say "after becoming established" you do realise that could be 1000 posts on some sites before you are no longer considered a noob !
On some sites you even need 100 posts to have a signature, and the links are no-follow, which are about as good for SEO as chocolate is for making a fireguard.