I've got about $1,000 that I've set aside to use to promote my forum. Does anyone have any good ideas on the best places to spend this money? Thanks.
For $1000 I can promote it. Try the Link Sales forum to boost your SERPs, or any of the Buy/Sell forums here at DP. There are a lot of people who will post on your forums for pay.
get some good directory links, backlinks, maybe some traffic? Of course do a few pay-to-post offers your forum should get a good start and then go up on it's own. A link in your sig, and maybe purchase links in other people's signatures
I don't know if you are interested in this, but I need a header. Would you be interested in throwing together something for me that will stand out, in exchange for placement in the footer, or a permanent link, and a post about your services? My target demographic is global 21-35, Music, Night Club, promoting Apple, and iTunes products Current traffic in the first month is 83,000 page veiws, translated into 13 languages. I don't know if that's out of line to ask, but I figured I'd throw it out there
No, thats no problem at all. I do that stuff all the time. I sent you a PM and am working on some banners right now for you to check out. I also made a thread about it on my forum. A footer link would be awesome!
Ya, I mostly just need to get ranked better on google. My site is already pretty active with posters, in fact its got the highest post to member ratio I've ever seen on a site in just under a year we have several member with over 10,000 posts and I dont even know how many people have over 5,000 but its a lot. I know the only thing the site needs is to rank better in in the search engines and get some more exposure and it will explode. its got a ton of potential.