I own a phpBB powered forum. And i want to promote it exponentially. Does anyone know any SEO techniques fit for my forum? Thanks.
If your forum is new and haven't acquired a good PageRank yet, everything will start from scratch. Acquire quality backlinks the usual way, web directory submissions, article directories, social sites, etc. Then promote your forum in forums, announce it, do press releases, do social bookmarking etc.
Yup. Doesn't really matter if it's a forum, a blog or any other type of site - all the usual traffic building methods apply. Just browse the threads on this forum - you'll find plenty of great tips (hidden among the heaps of rubbish but that's just something that you'll have to deal with ) and start applying different traffic building methods. Then see what works the best for you and scale it up.
For fast results you must concentrate on do follow links. It is not important whether you are creating forums or any thing else, SEO is necessary to spread the information about it. Now what to do is stated above, so all the best.
specially for forums, try to spend more time on analyzing your competitors website and try to get links from the websites that is linking to your competitors web site .