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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.

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The first traffic generating technique that I’m going to tell you about it blog commenting. Commenting on other blogs can be a very powerful technique for building traffic to your website, especially if it is done properly.

Unfortunately, most underestimate the value of blog commenting. Here are just a few of the benefits that can arise from commenting on blogs;

• Backlinks
• Traffic to your website
• Relationships with blog owners
• Guest posting opportunities
• Interviews
• Add Swaps
• Joint Ventures

Of course, to get the most exposure from your comments, you can’t just go and comment on any blog and expect that to result in loads of traffic to your website. There are some things to keep in mind to optimise how much traffic you can get from a blog comment.

Optimal Exposure

To drive the most amount of traffic to your blog, you need to have your comment seen by as many people as possible. To do this, you must comment on high profile blogs that have a lot of readers, RSS subscribers and commenters.

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Well guys, I’m now 2 weeks into Alex Jeffreys’ coaching program and things are going well. Not only am I learning quite a lot, I’m also getting to know other members.

This has its benefits;

• It’s always nice to make new friends
• We get to learn from each other, providing free help for the areas that we’re good at and receiving help for the things we’re weaker at
• It also provides us with the opportunity for possible future Adswaps and Joint Ventures. I’ll explain about this in another blog post shortly

One of the guys from the coaching that has been a great help so far is David Chamberlain. You can check out his blog here at http://davidchamberlain.net/.

I added him to my Skype and not only was he extremely helpful via the instant messenger, he also arranged a call with me so that we could have a chat about speeding up my progress. You have to take into account that he is also an up and coming Internet Marketer so can be really busy at times, yet he still took the time out to help me. That’s the genuine sort of guy that he is. Oh and did I mention that he was also extremely jet lagged at the time having just arrived back from an Internet Marketing Seminar in Las Vegas!

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