Free Traffic – Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is a powerful online marketing strategy that can serve as a big help to drive traffic to your website. Forums are a popular way to generate traffic nowadays. There are hundreds or more forums available out there in different niches, so it will not be difficult for you to find a number of forums in relation to your field of interest or niche.

It is free to join in forums and if you know exactly how to implement forum marketing you can use it effectively to drive massive traffic to your website. The good thing with this strategy is that forum marketing is not a complicated traffic generation method. All you need to do is to create an account on a number of good ranking forums and then create posts on them regularly.

Before starting to participate in any discussions or commonly known as threads, you should create and add an attractive signature to your account so as to lead the members of the forum site to visit your website. Almost all of these forums allow the users to put a few links in their signature, which will be displayed just below their post.

Forums with high activity are those sites that have a lot of interaction or participation as well as daily traffic. So the higher the number of participants is the higher the members that the forum has as well. And the higher the members are the greater amount of traffic you can get from it. These are best forums that you should engage into if you want to have a better result from implementing this online marketing strategy. You will know when a forum has a high activity by the number of replies to a single group or thread discussion.

Before you should participate in any discussion, make sure that you are aware of the forum rules so you will be to participate in an acceptable manner. Read first the rules of the forum that you want to become a member so you will be guided properly.

Here are the things you should do to generate more traffic from a high activity forum.

• Find 2 high traffic, active forum sites that are relevant to your niche and then find topics (question-like topics) with a huge amount of activity (posts or replies). After which, at least spend 30 minutes or better yet 1 hour for two times a week providing quality (complete, informative, helpful, relevant) responses. Be sure that you leave a link of your website in your forum profile as we as an attractive signature.

However, if you are not knowledgeable enough about the topic, research and read more about it then from your own understanding, create a response that will give the best answer to the question. Note, never copy or rephrase the answer of others. Be sure also that your grammar is correct and the words you used are spelled correctly. In addition, if your first language is not English, as much as possible make your response in pure English and not a combination of two languages.

• Create a new thread or topic in the forum to share valuable information or tips that are based on truth. Do not make anything out of your imagination. As more and more individuals are reading your tips or the valuable information you have shared and eventually they find it helpful, they will be driven to visit your website.

Take note: In creating a thread, make sure that the information you are providing are helpful, updated and informative. Something that could help them augment their knowledge about a given topic or teach them something they don’t know as well as help them solve a certain problem.

• Post an informative or helpful video on YouTube and post it also on the forum site that you are a member with. Doing this is a powerful way to increase your YouTube views and at the same time getting additional traffic from the forum site. There are those forum sites that allow the users to post a video. If you find one, then take advantage of it.

You can determine if the forum site allows video posts if there are those members who actually did one. However, to make sure read their Terms Of Use.

Finding a High Traffic Forum Site 

You can find a (Niche Specific Forum Site) forum site relevant to your niche on Yahoo and Google

Take Note: For you to be able to get a high amount of targeted traffic, it is best that you should join those forum sites that are relevant to your niche. A common pitfall of most people is that they engage in a forum site that is not related to the niche that they are targeting.

If you are implementing this traffic generation strategy on the wrong niche specific forum, you will not generate quality traffic due to the fact that forum members only go to a particular forum site that are interested into to look for a specific solution to their need.

The purpose of targeting a forum site that is related to your field of specialty or niche is not only to primarily generate traffic, but more specifically, to get traffic from your targeted visitors (potential customers) who will be interested to the products or services you offer in your website.

So, for example, if you are in the body building niche, find a forum site for body building lovers; if you are into the golfing niche, find a forum site specifically for golf lovers.

For you to find a forum site relevant to your niche here’s how to do it using Google search.

Go to Google and in the search box enter the keywords (your niche) using this format:

“’keyword+discussion board” or “’keyword’+forums”

One by one check the results so you can find the most ideal forum sites that are relevant to your niche.

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Have yourself a profitable day.

Anastasia