Trish,
Based what you said, I will go with forum. I have 5 sites up and running now. They are all very young. Only one of the sites shows on the first page on Yahoo and Google search results for several keywords. Since this is a small niche, traffic is still relative low. I am not sure I should wait for more traffic or not. Why does it take so long to mature? Is it because traffic or something else?
BTW, I have two sites which somewhat related to your pets4kids.info. If you are interested in a link exchange, please let me know. You can contact me from contact page at:
Black Panther Animal
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