A great way to drive quality traffic to your website is with Forum Marketing.
Forums are places where you can share some of your knowledge and in the same time learn from other people, and the discussion is always about a particular topic or niche.
How it Works
The basic concept should be that you look for forums related to your niche and then join one or more of these forums.
Start to build a strong reputation, providing useful information about the topic you are expert about.
Never link to your blog within the post, just place your URL within your signature.
Of course be sure to read rules and regulations, before joining any forum.
Do not SPAM ! Or you will be banned.
Another big advantage of forum marketing, is when you talk in forums with other people related to your niche, you may learn from them a lot.
How to Master the Forum Marketing
Let’s say that one thing is subscribe to a forum, write a couple of interesting posts, put the link in your signature and then nothing else.
Another thing is build a strong relation in the long term with the forum users and focus then on a much profound and befencial way to generate traffic.
First of all you should choose one or two forum to join, because more I think it will be hard to follow.
May be, as beginning, you should start with small forums of your niche.
Once you have choosen, you may participate to discussion everyday, creating new threads and answer to what you are expert about.
Try to be consistent.
Day by day you will see that other forum users will trust you, if your participation is active and fruitful, and they will start consider you as an expert in that topic.
Of course if you have a lot of interventions, the people is more likely to know more about you, visiting the link that you have in your signature, as a resource of interesting articles of your niche.
And Forum Marketing is useful during time, as if you decide to change your website or just modify the URL that you want to promote, all you have to do if change it in your signature and all your work in that forum will redirect to that new URL.
Forum Marketing Resources
Here you find some popular forum that you should use for your marketing campaign.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing forum :
Internet Marketing :
Affiliate Marketing :
Enjoy the discussion ! And let me know what you think. Thanks !
February 10, 2012 at 4:59 am
I really appreciate this strategy you have shared Erik, I have tried using two sites here, the warrior forum and wicked fire, but the problem I have encountered here it is so much difficult to gain reputation here , because almost all the members of this forum site are very professional they avoid spam comments, and they don’t allowed links in your profile unless you are certified. am I right?
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February 10, 2012 at 11:47 am
Kate,
I think you should be really expert in a niche, to gain the trust of the forum users and then be able to gain traffic from forum marketing.
February 13, 2012 at 6:39 am
Yes your right, it means that trust building is the main key for you to have a good reputation in those forum sites. Thanks for giving me a brilliant idea which I can follow for me not to commit mistakes in joining some threads in that forum sites.
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February 10, 2012 at 9:00 am
I couldn’t agree more. What I usually do when doing forum marketing is that I chose forums which is related to my niche site. After that, optimize my profile, read the rules and head over to the introduction section to make an opening. After few days of having posts at least 10, I then put my links on the signature and start building my reputation. Forum marketing is great. However, as what I have read from an SEO blog, forum links are no longer valuable in SEO.
February 10, 2012 at 11:47 am
Hi Edward,
you do have a point, thanks for sharing.
I think that, a part of the link that may be is no longer DoFollow in the forum signature, the benefits should be that users should associate the knowledge you may share in the forum, to a visit in your website in order to learn more.
February 11, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Yes Erik. I get traffic that way. I usually reply with a teaser. Enough for people to get curious and have the signature links as call to action.
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February 11, 2012 at 7:25 am
I’ve seen lots of people who do forum marketing. Yet not all of them really find this technique very successful compared to others.
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February 16, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Great article! Forum marketing can definitely take some time, but I think the high PR is worth it in the end. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
February 24, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Thanks for providing this useful information. One of the many ways to promote products online and to generate traffic is through online forums.
March 17, 2012 at 9:11 am
First of all search related forum and then join one or more these forums. Have patience, and be consistent, and you will be rewarded.The success in Internet marketing is not just achieved with the proper technique to generate traffic to your website. It is also important to invest in the over-all appearance of your online store. Aside from making it user-friendly, make an effort to improve on the design aspect such as an impressive logo, readable fonts and appropriate color schemes. This will make your visitors feel good about your site and will surely convince them to come back.
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March 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Hi Ayesha,
I agree with you : having a good theme and blog layout, can help us attract visitors. Together with the importance of create an easy to remember logo.
Thanks for the nice comment !
March 18, 2012 at 7:56 pm
I agree with you, Erik, that forums can be a great way to create and cement key relationships. These relationships are vital to me in terms of getting my blog recognized.
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March 20, 2012 at 8:30 pm
It can takes time to build a position of respect in a specific forum,
but the reward in terms of traffic and relationships is huge.
Thanks for the comment, David !