how to get members to a political forum

I own a political forum and was wondering how I can gain traffic

 

Do you have a political background?

 

Try checking out people's MySpace pages and also Facebook. People often post their political backgrounds there.

 

Go around to other similar blogs and/or forums (at least with polictical subforums) and make controversial comments. And leave your link, of course.

I have blogs where I'd get 20 visits/day and then if I wrote something controversial, I'd get like 200-1000 visits.

 

MTbiker makes a good point - controversy will definitely help you on a political forum. Just set up a few fake accounts and use them to make highly controversial claims towards all areas of the political spectrum. This way it keeps you as the "peacekeeper" a bit as the admin, but ignites a bit of a fire in the forum.

 

lol, that's a great idea.

thanks guys!

 

Advertise in other political forums? Write political articles and distribute them, try to get them on digg... reddit. etc.