Ive seen many people do many things i doubt they work, so just asking here would anyone know how to get more hits?? use spiders etc etc?

Basically i know this other vb forum, they had like the odd 30 members visit a day at anytime all of a sudden after just a week or so they have over 131 members online at anytime and 762 guests and over + at anytime...., how the hell do they do it?? to me its astonishing...., im sure somebody knows and maybe could tell me how its done....? Or is it all bots?? and are fake?

Ive googled them they dont even show up only if i do it specifically they show up at the bottom of the 2nd google page...,

It's all bots. Trust me. The crawl will come in heavy once a month or so where you'll get about 150 guests (if you are running a 30/at any time popular-type forum). It doesnt mean anything at all, except the bots are looking at it... which is good.

Here is what I suggest for vBulletin optimization...

Use your robots.txt to disallow everything except registration, members lists, forumdisplay, and showthread. Disallow everything else...including your archives. I know many people, vB included, think the archives are what should be allowed for crawling... but the bottom line is google trips up to find it most of the time and always wants to look at showthreads.

Mod_Rewrite is the only way to fly.
Hope this helps a lil'

ok please explain more im not familiar with robots and getting them setup, just treat me as a rookie and tell me what i need to do to optimize it, thanks!