Advice Needed Starting up a forum

I'm starting up a forum for my gaming community and need some advice for making categories, boards, and growing with good keywords for Google/Bing searches. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Not gonna lie, forums are kinda saturated as a subject.
I would suggesting copying one that already exists and build new stuff on it.

I dont think there needs to be more forums anyway. But if youd like maybe add some popular game websites as keywords, Roblox, minecraft, etc

there are too many forums nowadays. but if it is a for local/specific language, it will have a chance for success. hope you will succeed.

If you are going to start your own forum, message me about it, I would love to join it!