Critical Help on Advertising the forum

I have been paying for the adwords in google and Is just not being affordable for me, and once the money in the account is gone my site completelly disapears.

I know Im doing this the wrong way, what do I need tod o to make the site reach at least first 3 pages on search engines? I have no knowledge on this and I have some money that I plan on using but when Im sure on what to do .

Help on this
the site is http://www.myls1.com/forums/index.php and I have to beat down other huge sites in the future

Thanx
Chris_____

[theFAILURE]

It seems like your forum does not have too many posts / topics.

Once that grows and the spiders start to leech, you will see a big difference.

Hopefully someone can come along and give you better advice than what I can.

[wolf32]

I'm no SEO expert ,but content is king. You need a lot more posts/articles/content. You have to ask yourself, "Why would anyone want to come to my site; what do I have to offer?"

Also, I checked out your site and it seems none of the links above your navbar work. I'm in IE7 if that helps.

Also, reciprocal links?

[ssslippy]

Your forum is completly private, u should allow guests to read it. It also has ALOT of forums. Sometimes starting small is better.

[christian8a]

got it, thanx for the replies.
But how about on advertising somehow so people goes to the site,
I have set the private thing for a Forced Sign up stuff and it sure works but only the people refered by somebody.
If I type for example LS1 wich is the type of engine those cars run, my site does not appear at all, only if I type the name of the site.
What to do about that?
I did use adwords before and it did help but didnt last very long

also the buttons on the main menu top of the navbar are not linked to anything yet thats why
they dont work

[CouchMonkey]

I believe that adwords will judge how much you have set it to spend every month and adjust the frequency of displays accordingly. If you only set it to 20 bucks a month, you will see your add less times if you set it to 100 bucks a month.

Think of upping your advertising budget or setting the frequency to manual.

[Hendrizius]

You need keywords which you would like to promote. Once you chose them, something like "Vbulletin Modifications Board" try to add your Website into Linkdirectories. Linkdirectories are something like (submiturl123.com). It is very important that you add your website into the matching categories as google counts content related links.

Also try adding your Keywords into the VB-Page Description on the bottom of your website. on my site it is "WoW Hacks, Cheats". You get lot's of pages for that Keyword pointing to your frontpage. Google then thinks your website is important for those Keywords and automatically ranks you up higher.