Forum Marketing

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 10:51 pm

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Forums are a great way to drive targeted visitors to your website. The best ways to get quality traffic from forums is to find a forum that is highly targeted to your websites niche, become involved in the community, and create an intriguing signature.

Your signature should contain a link to your website. Use it to offer something of great value with a good call to action so that it’ll tempt people to click it.

Although having to leave multiple forum posts may seem a little long winded, you have to remember that forums are one of the best places to find a lot of people that are interested in your niche all in one place. Therefore, if you supply these people with valuable information, you have a ton of extremely targeted prospects.

Forums are also an excellent way to meet other marketers. This could lead to future joint ventures and ad swaps which will result in even more targeted traffic!

Here’s some excellent forum marketing tips;

Read the forum rules carefully. All forums have their own specific policies and regulations. Certain things like posting an affiliate link in your signature can cause you to be banned from some forums.
Don’t post anything offensive. Not only could this lead to you getting yourself banned but it could also give you a bad repuation and lose you potential customers. If you offend someone unintentionally, make sure you apologise as soon as you realise.
I’ve already mentioned this above but it’s extremely important so I’m going to mention it again. Make sure that you include an attractive signature file to entice as many potential visitors as possible.
Take a bit of time to read some posts on the forum before you begin to contribute. This way you can adjust to the forums atmosphere and learn the way that they write. Then once you do post, you’ll blend in perfectly and they’ll feel that you’re part of the group straight away.
Earn the respect and admiration of other forum members by giving sound advice. Even if you’re not 100% certain of the answer yourself, it’s likely that you could find the answer for them on the internet.
Do not sell or promote anything. If you provide enough helpful information in your posts, then your signature file will do this for you. Remember, people don’t like to be sold to but they do like to buy. If you consistently provide valuable information, people will click your signature link to see if you have any information products for sale.

Other benefits of Forum Marketing include;

They can supply you with great ideas for future blog content and articles. A good question can motivate very interesting and informative discussions giving you plenty to talk about on your next blog post.
SEO – Posting your URL on forums will create backlinks to your blog.

Get yourself well known within the forums for providing valuable posts and you will gain that communities respect. This could result in an amazing effect to your market and/or products.

If you are in the Internet Marketing niche like me then a great forum to check out is the Warrior Forum. You’ll find absolutely loads of useful information and if you have your own product, you could submit it as a WSO (Warrior Special Offer). This forum has thousands of active members that could result in lots of highly targeted buyers of your product