Hello, I started my home recording site last October. I was able to write about 100 articles from the start. I busted my tail to make sure I had as much content as possible. I spent around $200 on link directories and then began to push my forum hard. Within two months I had an active form with about 4000 posts and 150 members. However, I found myself spending more time on the forum than I was on developing the site. In fact, I went from writing 10-20 articles a week to writing more like one per week. The forum is still doing fairly well, but if I were to quit posting, I don't feel like it would stand on it's own yet. Obviously, I want to keep that going. Looking back, I wonder if I would have been better off waiting a few months before starting my forum. I wonder if I should have waited until I had a site that was already doing well in the search engines. I also spent quite a bit of money promoting the forum. I had a few contests which were expensive, but also kickstarted my forum quite nicely. Looking back, I should have been buying more directories as I went along. I'm in the top 10 in MSN for most of my keywords, but none of those are big time terms. Yahoo has shown little results and Google is sending me zero traffic. My question is, do you think it's better to wait on pushing a forum hard until a site is doing well in all 3 big search engines? Looking back, I wonder if I should have spent the forum promotion money on link directories and focused on building a site which would easily have over 500 quality articles in it by now. Brandon
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