Sorry if this has been mentioned earlier in the thread im a bit short for time at the min (Spurs v chelsea)..
My forum has been up for around 3 - 4 months now and nearly hitting 120 members , i havent really focused on getting the members ive just focused on SEO , my main stream of members now is starting to be google but in the early days (and i still do this) is heavy social networking , Digg , Del.icio.us , furl.
basicly my site is a football site where i can Digg e.g Match reports,lastest news articles and so on , if you have 3 or 4 friends to digg your story every couple of days for a week it works well.
My main example for this would be my Live Match links that i publish, i digg a story with the links 3 or 4 days before the match is live , by the time the match comes on the third day that tread is in the top 10 of google (most of the time) and i get massive traffic from that (when i say massive, i mean more than usual)
So i suppose what im saying in a one liner is , digg away remember bot's love digg etc and they will crawl you more often even if you thread is only on top for them 3 - 4 days at least your getting traffic in that time.
Maybe a better example is this.
On saturday Paul Robinson (tottenham Goal keeper) scored from 95 yards out !!!!
I got the video within a hour of this happening and dugg away.
Heres the simple site i made for the vid :
Tottenham Hotspur Paul Robinson Goal
Heres the link for the stats (for that page only)
eXTReMe Tracking
as you can see that i posted the link on one or to forums too , but the google traffic has come from me digging the story etc...
Hip this kinda makes sense ive lost what i was saying
