Best Thing:A Forum?

Hi.
I am working to have a place in this industry in Turkey for several months.
I prepared several sites.But last week I closed all of them.

Because I think a forum will be best.So I prepared a casino forum ( http://www.casinoforumu.com) and give some advirtise to some normal portals.

I thought that the best way to have repeater visitors is run a forum.
There is no other csino forums in Turkey.

But s you know,in forums I cant use more banners.
I can only use textlinks when I open a topic.
Do you think a forum will work?
And will a forum have good ranking in search enginnes?
Thanks.

Depends if your willing to put a lot of time and effort in, i think you'll be best sticking to a casino portal.

I will open casino portals again but differently from past.
First I am planning to have lots of visitors(In 1 week we have about 100 members)
After have a large amount of members,I will direct the visitors to my casino portals with pop-up or via text link,etc.
But first I need visitors and members.
After finding members,I wont need to work for promoting portals.
Promoting only one forum is better than promoting five portals.When people learn my forum,they will learn my portals,I think.

I understand your goal. I suppose I have done the opposite of what you plan in trying to obtain visitors.

First, I designed a portal where I represent various casinos and sportsbooks.

THEN, I added a forum. However, the forum is just part of my website where I post casino promotions, bonuses, etc. It allows me a special place to "spotlight" bonuses offered.

But, as we all have read here, search engine optimization is extremely important to be successful. I hope this was helpful.

Best...

I agree, a forum can compliment a portal as it adds content. Also, it's a place for your players to gather.