Forums As A Source Of Free Laser Targeted Traffic For Your Website Or Blog
Forums are an excellent source of targeted traffic and in fact forum traffic is one of the most laser targeted. This is a good idea because forum traffic is often very targeted if you are to make good money online.
Forums are actually useful in two ways:
First, forums are a great way to know what people in your niche are looking for or want to know but that’s another topic for another day. Today we are going to look at the second way to use forums to build your online business which is:
Getting backlinks and free traffic to your websites or blog. Now, to drive traffic to your website or blog using forums, you need to find forums related to your niche and become an active member of the forum(s). Two to three forum posts are not enough and I am going to reveal to you another secret why you will want to become an active contributor of a certain forum if you keep reading.
You can easily find forums online on almost any niche you want, some free others fee based. You can find them easily by searching over at Google or any other search engine using the search phrase “Niche+forum” e.g. Pet training forum.
Now, before firing your forum marketing, you need to read the rules and regulations of the forum you just joined to stay out of trouble with the forum moderators. It’s also a good idea to introduce yourself to the other members and to get a general feel of the forum before posting. Get to know the tone of the forum members as well as the forum moderators.
You’ll also need to create a signature file which is where traffic to your website will come from. The signature file appears at the end of every post you make in the forum. By including the link to your website, interested members of the forum can click through to your website.
Your signature file doesn’t have to be so big; just your name, a statement or two and your website link are enough. It must however have a clear call to action e.g.
Need to shed those extra calories starting now?
Visit Weight Loss Solutions for time saving solutions.
Discover right here and right now how to shed those
extra calories eating as much as you want.
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Once you have read and understood the rules of the forum and have a good feel for the tone of the community, it’s time to start contributing to them.
Spend some time to develop a good relationship with the community. By that I mean that you should contribute something. Don’t post junk or spammy comments that don’t make sense in the context of the thread you are posting in just for the back links to your website or get advertising credit. They will only get deleted by forum moderators in the very least not to mention that you could get your account deleted.
Instead, ask your own questions, respond to other people’s posts by offering solutions and answers to their problems and questions as well as offering useful links to free resources that other members of the community need.
Your long term goal is mainly to build your credibility among other members of the forum community. Be seen as a reliable source of useful information and an active member of the community. Again don’t be afraid to learn from other members of your forum. Don’t get stuck with your own problems when you’ve willing members of the forum community to help you out.
Another powerful strategy is to introduce a free report as a solution to a problem that was posted. It could also be a piece of software, audio file or even video-as it best fits the given situation.
You can even offer some free (but useful) gift to the members of the community for their own purpose if the forum rules permits you to. This could be a set of articles,an autoresponder series etc.
Forum marketing is one very reliable source of targeted traffic to your website. If you can take the time to participate in forums, you can gradually accumulate links back to your website, get some search engine love and generate free website or blog traffic (free is good huh!).
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Wow that’s a big article and very detailed one. I used to employ forums in my SEO strategy, but you’re right, if you find the right niche that corresponds to your offer, the participation in forum will give you not only links but good traffic as well. Also, if you still want to use the signature as link-building strategy for Google, it’s good to find forums that allow dofollow links in signatures.
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I love forums! They are such a great resource for backlinks and targeted traffic. Warriorforum and digital pointe are two of the internet marketing niche fourms that I have had the most success with. Google crawls them often and the backlinks definitely help push rankings
Because of forum do now allow to self promote or post link that unrelated or self promo.
That why lot of people come out with a new thread about the issues. Then put a signature below the thread and bring them to your blog or website to provide them the solution.
They are lot of people doing this even they know the solution but why they still want to ask the stupid question? because they want to get the traffic from there.