How to attract visitors to visit your site?

To attract more visitors to your website first of all submit your website to the search engines so that visitors can get to know about the site. After that, • Run a poll • Reply to people immediately • Share on Social networking sites • Guest blog, blog commenting • URL promotion, giving referrals to friends • Newsletter • Submit articles to different article sites containing your website content and link • Post on different forum sites • Connect with other link exchanging websites • Link to web directories

There are already lots of forum sites nowadays. So you will need to cope with the competition. The easiest way to gain much active members on your forum is by giving them incentives, just similar with what myLot does. You may also introduce referrals section to grow the number of members. But if you can't afford that, just make sure that your forum is unique, interesting, and useful. As a start, you may need to create several good threads that may attracts more people to see by yourself..

Stumble upon is good for this purpose

by social networking site., by posting in other forums and give your sites in signature.

You can use facebook or other social network.Best way is join to several groups publish your site to those groups.I had done it and was successful for my site.