Forums is an online Discussion Site. These are web applications which manage user content. It gained the highest users online. People use forum to be a part of a certain online community. People join communities where they find interests and share various things.

Now, let's say you have started your own forum. You expect people to participate and take interest in your forum, you spend a lot of months for your page rank to increase, but the problem is, there is no traffic at all. You might wonder what went wrong. The only reason why this happened is because no one cared to join your forum, there were no members and no posts in your forum.

Now to take something out of it, Every user wants to join a larger forum. They expect to share and exchange ideas and start threads, ask questions and expect other user to leave answers.

How to make Forum and get Large Traffic?

Start with a Small forum with less category for your site. just make the very important ones that people can get attaracted and user should get interest in it.

This step can help but it may sound crazy. Make bogus users, with different usernames. Then post as many post as you can. You can create valuable treads, and use fake users to reply to the posts. Make a lot of threads and make sure you have more than 6 replies from the other fake users you have created. This may be time consuming and do it for three months or longer.
Now if a new user come to your site he can see there are many threads. So there is a great chance that this user can join your community because of the participation and value in your site. Make sure you reply to the new user thread with different users. Making this require a lot of patience, so be patient enough to succeed.

There is another alternative too, but you have to spend money for it, but it won't hurt. If you are lazy you can go to sites that offer services like these instead of making fake ones. They have real users who will enter your forum, sign up and post threads accordingly to the plan, it will suit your preferences. Now your forums will be loaded with real people, so new users will be conviced to sign up too, like the former process.

The only need is you should have patience if you opt to use the manual way if you have budget constraints. So take you time and choose what suits you best. You can use other forums to get traffic to your site. By showing some valuable post in your forum.