Well on google when you type "sports draft" im # 9 i started about 1 month ago and i only got about 9 active members and they are my friends and family. but for some reason i got 117 members with 0 post they are just registering. I dont know what im doing wrong somebody help www.sportsdraft.org
check out www.theadminzone.com, they have pretty good articles on getting a forum started and of course check out Digital Point forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=64
Arranging a contest came to my mind first. And reading these after that. How my site went from 37 to 14657 monthly visits Traffic post part 2 You might consider thinking to change your description texts to something else than "basketball basketball basketball..."
Hire some forum posters and make your forum look busy. Members like to see that people are talking on the forums...also the more topics you have the more chances that your new user might reply to it. You can get forum posters for like $0.05 per post. With spending only $20 you can get a lot of new topics and posts.
I second that. I'm sure almost all forums started out with their owners buying posts to make them look busy. If you want to wait until people come in by themselves and populate your forums, you're going to wait a lifetime (unless you're an expert marketer).