Forum Posting - Crucial Traffic Information

Posting on forums, if used correctly, can be an excellent way to get your name "out there", and ultimately to build a heap of traffic to your website. Note emphasis on the words "if used properly." 

Good, relevant and useful content is key here. 

Let's cut to the chase, if you expect to participate in a forum and to send a huge publicity, and then sit back and wait for the massive volume of web traffic to hit your site, then your will probably be disappointed (for Not to mention waiting for a long time for it to happen). 

You need not spam people with email (hopefully!) And spamming a forum is just as bad (actually posting a huge advertising is spam) and will more often than not get you excluded from the forum and your post will get deleted, not to mention you will quickly gain a reputation as a forum spammer. 

Although the Internet is a mind blowingly huge place, you may be surprised how fast word can get around to things like this. Do not chance it. 

Not spamming even more important, if your attempts to become an expert in your niche area, because chances are the forum you just got ban was a major problem for your niche market, if you had done your research properly. 

We suggest that you see on the free website advertising as an additional way to move your online business forward rapidly. The reward is definitely worth it. 

So what is the best way to use a forum to get value out of it? 

Firstly find relevant forums for your niche market and take the time to read the rules generally, forum, and especially the rules as they relate forums posts. 

To find forums, use the search engine and look for forums and keywords. 

Forums such as car wholesalers, do a search for forum car wholesalers. 

Some forums will not allow you to write any overt advertising, while others may provide a signature block at the end of the speech, which may point to a website, with perhaps a brief description of your site, others can not even allow it. Take time to read up on just what is and is not permitted for each forum you join with. 

Once you've done that actually consider whether you will be able to add value to the forum by posting. 

Do you have knowledge that can be used to help other posters? Can you actually add decent content that not only towards "Sounds like you need my affiliate-o-matic program, grab it from my website." 

Realize that you should be able to post replies without making sales of any kind (although hopefully you've chosen a forum that allowed a signature block in your posts, so that at the base of each of your amazing relevance and expert rich in wisdom posts, there is also a link for people to get hold of you). 

This signature should NOT be the focus of the position that the focus of your posts are actually helping people by solving their specific problems or issues that appear on his record. 

You will be surprised how quickly you can build yourself as an expert in the forum, which adds immense believability and credibility to you on the forum, which means that people will start coming to you for help! 

The other great bonus is that the forum posts tend to get picked up by search engines, so over time your answer will get into search engine results, and low and behold, there is a link to your website in them! 

Make sure that your posts are in a forum that is relevant to your niche market. For example if you have answered questions in a gardening forum, and your signature at the bottom of each of your messages get people to a sports site, you may be disappointed with the results. 

In this case, if your site is sports related, you would have been much better off posting in a sports forum, but hopefully a sports forum that is specific for the exact sport your site focuses on. 

Search engines love relevant and you will find you will often actually lose points, and valuable rankings if you just concentrate on getting a large number of links, and not paying attention to using appropriate forums for your niche market. 

Remember the first rule one way links, a relevant one way links to your site from another website (including forums) is far more valuable if both sites have related content. 

Make sure you look into posting on forums to get a boost in visitors to your website. This is a very easy way to get free traffic to your website.