I recently was looking for atheistic and agnostic forums. I might have found Dawkin's forum because it was linked by or mentioned in another website. I found the Internet Infidels forum when I was doing searches on early Christianity and astrotheology. This forum I found simply through a search of the terms 'agnostic' and 'forum'.
The forum that I'm on most of the time is a tyopology forum. Its fairly active, and is constantly getting new members. I suspect most people find it through web searches. I have noticed that the forum was linked to in another site for some reason. I've heard there is an infp.globalchatter Facebook group, but I've never been to it.
A forum will also come up in searches when someone is looking for a certain subject that a forum has a thread about. I've done searches on something I started a thread about and came up with my own thread in the top few sites. So, the more active the forum is, then the more threads and posts in threads. And the more threads and posts in threads, the more likely this forum will come up in people's searches.
If you have members who are in other forums, then it would help spread the word. I've recently linked to a couple of threads in this forum to the globalchatter forum. I like to link between forums whenever I find something interesting I want to share. A thread in one form might inspire a thread in another forum and I'll link back to the original thread to give the background for why I was thinking about the subject, or else simply to give credit where credit is due. |