Get more people to join the site.

Read the above statement.

You could always make a topic in my forum for advertisement of other forums...

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1. Include useful high-quality information on your site
2. Submit your site to various web directories and reference sites
3. Publicize your site to everyone with whom you communicate
4. Write a newsletter and send it out
5. Provide a Rich Site Summary (RSS)
6. Ask other high-quality websites to link to your website
7. Provide motivation for highly ranked websites to link to yours
8. Check out a site before you link back
9. Tell the press about your site

Just a few ideas:

- Post on other forums, have the link the link to your forum in all of your sigs.
- See about exchanging links with relevant sites.
- Start open-ended threads about topics that will get conversations started with the visitors you do have.
- Visit sites for webmasters like SitePoint to get ideas about how to optimize your site for search engines.
- Consider purchasing text links via Google Adsense or directly on sites that have a similar demographic to your site.