Success is in the eye of the beholder...
forums/websites are not ranked by activity as much as popularity and content...so...even though hardwareforum may have only 800+ threads it has a page rank of 5.
Alexa works different than Google...in that with Alexa the lower the number the better...1 is the best...
I know how time consuming promotion can be...it took a lot of effort getting both the website and forum ranked by Google and Alexa in just 8 months ( actually we were ranked in three months but you don't count ranks under 3 generally)...and we're expecting to go higher next time the rankings come out...so far we have over 100 page ranked pages...of 2 or higher...
our first Alexa spike came in March, three months after we started.
Hardwareforum.com isn't in the top 100,000 either.
Sniper's got a great site here...but...it's not well promoted with the search engines...which is indicative of the low page rank.
If we were to link to each other the TAZ could help Hardwareforums and in turn we would benefit from the future association.
I'm presently reconstructing the website...to make it even more SEO friendly and more in tune with the forum.
6 months ago I wouldn't have even mentioned it...but...at our present growth and constant rise in SEO ...I think a link exchange or banner exchange with the TAZ would do a lot to raise the profile of Hardwareforums with search engines.
I expect we'll be page ranked 5 or 6 by the end of our first year.
Eg ;)