Op - I built a forum a couple of years ago, it raked like crazy and even made me a little money (forum traffic is notorious for not making money).
Here's what I did...
Had a little script built that scrapes WF - bought a BH sounding domain name - every product that was released on WF was scraped and places in my forum - the only change made to the content was in 2 places.
1- I changed the title by automatically adding [GET] to the beginning (and I had first page listings for all of those wso's and a LOT of click-throughs)
2- On the bottom I had a text line that said "click here to get it free" (something like that) and it lead to a free cpa offer.
Money was made, pages were indexed, traffic was had.... Then I sold it
So, there you go - a tried, tested, successful & proven forum method.
To put in into perspective - I spent maybe $75 total on the whole setup including custom script, and made around 17k in the 4 months i owned it before i sold it.
Enjoy.