I've created a new article, called Climbing the 6-Tier Fansite Ladder. It explains how to boost your fansite's popularity with a few tips, based on a tier system I've devised. It's a pretty good read for anyone with a site.

FYI, I think my site would be on Tier 3.

Very nice article and I agree that you would be in Tier 3

Speaking of which, I did find a small grammatical error under Tier 3. The second paragraph (not including the bold one), the last sentence states "This is where you affiliates can really help your PageRank on Google...." It should be This is where YOUR affiliates....