8 Forum Marketing Tips
Posting in relevant make money online forums can be an effective way of promoting blog traffic indirectly. When you post in forums, you are allowing others to get to know you. Forums are great places to share knowledge with each other and find answers to specific questions almost instantly. They are also great places to get money making ideas. There are many other benefits of being an active participant in online forums.

- Generate backlinks to your blog. By providing useful information and being helpful in general, you generate backlinks through your posts and signature link.
- Reach out to potential readers and customers. By interacting with forum members positively, you reach out to those who might be interested to visit your blog.
- Get feedback for ideas or products. You can conduct polls or ask for feedback on ideas or products you’d like to develop or purchase. Many forum members are marketing experts are who are more than happy to give their advice and opinions.
- Find potential joint-venture partners. After interacting with regular members for a period of time, you would have a good feel about whom you think would make good joint-ventures business partners.
In order to interact in forums in a positive way to gain the interest and trust of fellow members, observe certain codes of behaviour so that you can be regarded as someone to count on for constructive opinions and honest, useful information.
- Don’t be anonymous. Let people know who you are by providing a good profile write up with a link to your blog and include your photo. People are more willing to interact with (and buy from) someone they know more than someone anonymous.
- Be honest and upfront. Don’t do things which create a dishonest image of yourself, such as creating multiple identities or getting friends to provide false testimony for your products.
- Be courteous. Think twice before shooting off a curt retort, rude comment or unsubstantiated allegations. Even if you apologize for the mistake later, your post remains in search engine databases indefinitely and people who come across that particular inappropriate post will look no further and move on.
- Be contactable. Let readers have some way of contacting you. Use either the signature if the forum allows one or set up your profile to allow private messaging or email.
- Post in popular threads. Posting in popular threads gives you more exposure and contact with members since more people read them.
- Use keywords in post titles. Busy forums are visited frequently by search engines and using keywords to optimize your post leads to your product or service being indexed in search results.
- Use images. Pictures draw attention and including a relevant image link in your signature if the forum allows it helps attract eyeballs.
- Post often. Making your presence felt by posting frequently and actively participating in discussions gives you a higher profile. Readers will find it hard to ignore you if they keep seeing your name in posts.
Finally, participating in forums should be enjoyable and not something you do just for the sake of getting backlinks and blog traffic. Allocate a certain amount of time for it as part of your blog promotion and marketing efforts to make fast money so that it balances with all your other blog-related activities.
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I wish I had more time to forum post, I’ve found a lot of the web development forums to generate a fair amount of traffic as well. Now my rankings they’ve been way more beneficial then non converting forum traffic
Be very effective with your sig text, and vary it from site to site to avoid having the same anchor text. Cheers.
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Time management is a big challenge to bloggers especially those with multiple blogs.
Thanks for the tip on varying your signature. That’s a great tip!
Thanks for visiting and hope you’ll visit again soon.
Cheers
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help me with the forex – I am looking for an introduction
for noobs. I have already some knowledge about shares. (Hope this is the adequate category.)
Help is so much appreciated. Most important question: can a noob make money on the forex market?
Thanks,
Jim