Great advice. That is how I got mine going too. I went to hotmail and yahoo and msn and more and put in for new email addresses under different names and then started posting to my own forum. Wasn't all that long before I started getting some strangers in the door.

You have to go around to similiar forums and advertise the presence of your forum too.

What's that, they won't let you put links to your forum
in their forum because you are attempting to run their clients off ?

Well, just because I'm trying to illustrate a point, I've went way overboard with something I would not ordinarialy do, but tell, just how many urls to various webpages of mine can you find in this message?

Do you realize that I can put 768 1 by 1 pixels all in a row to make it look like a horizontal line across the page and every one of those 768 pixels will be a separate url to a different webpage if you want to do that? I've done it a few times.

So tell me, how many links of mine did you find in this message? Now then, I usually don't put any in but you can do it and get away with it pretty easy and most especially if you are only putting in one.