Our site has been online for close to two years now and we only have 213 registered members.
First and most importantly get your forum indexed by google, yahoo, ask, and all of the other search engines. With newer types of indexing, the meta tags don't do nearly as much as they used to. However, make sure you fill your meta keywords entry under vB options in the admincp with really descriptive words about your forum. Also a nice looking descriptive meta description is a good thing (what you'll see if you find the site on the search engines).
One real big help that we've noticed (as we've been getting more and more users from search engines lately), CONTENT. The more information your site has, whether it be forum or page based information, the better chance your site will be found.
I hope this helps you out a little bud. And being online for only a month; that's not bad. It took our site almost a month before it even got indexed on google! AFTER sending them an email about how to get our site indexed properly!
07-21-2008, 09:48 AM
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