What is the most effective way to invite people to visit my site?

i have this new message board, and an arcade forum... how can i persuade people to visit my site? (aside from invitiing my close friends)





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What is the most effective way to invite people to visit my site?
It helps if you tell them about it. How is up to you. Submit to search engines is a great way but you need to add meta tags first.
Reply:Join some popular forum. and then post your web site link there.
Reply:use yahoo 360