Interesting

Its been a while since i made a post and its been a while since i actively took part in any discussion recently.

largely this has been due to my recent bad health and also due to other things offline.

recently i started a new non webmaster related forum for a community in south india.

i had done a Press Release + i have only 2 incoming links to it - one here and one from webmasters cavern.

Apart from these 2 i have really not done any other promotion of any sort for it - some emails to ppl i know and to group(s) i am part of.

The Press release seems to have done a huge boost in terms of SE crawls and visits.

Google has been and is a constant visitor to the site.
Msn doesnt seems to be far behind and yahoo is also constantly seen on the site.

at this moment, a search for the keyword (which ironically is the site name + the community name) ranks #2 in google and yahoo and #1 in msn.

At this moment, even though i would love to see more active members in the forum (it just 3 weeks old), i am not complaining as SE’s brings in good number of visitors and its only a matter of time before, i think, i start to a good number of new registrations.

PR seems to have done the trick so far

probably i will take out another Press release later on to see whats happening.

if u have a similar experience do share it here plz.