I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on the best way to market an automotive & tuning forum ??? I do alot of word of mouth and link exchanges (if anyone is interested let me know) I don't mind looking into paid advertising but where do I go and what do I look for to help benifit my specific niche ?? Any suggestions on fre advertising ???
Why don't you submit the site to local classifieds. Make sure to pick a right category and people who are interested in looking at online classifieds would also be interested in looking at forums.
Join other auto forums and add your website to your signature. Become active on those forums and you'll have plenty of backlinks to your site.
The best way to bring in traffic on an automotive forum is via SEO & link building. Just make sure, you choose the right article directories, blogs & forums to do the link building.