Forum Posting- Best way for traffic.

[sarpras]

Participating online discussion forums drive lots of traffic to my website.

I am spending daily 2 hour for forum posting.

Can you describe your experience in forum posting?

[101homebiz]

I think everybody realized already that you are an intensiv writer in Forums (;-) Anyway, I like your very brief and compact postings.

However I would have two hours daily I would really invest them in writing articles. Articles is Viral Marketing, writing in Forums not.

To see the effectivity of your Forums Post the only thing you need to do is to analyze the statistics files in your Webspace, then you can read immediatelly how many visits did you receive from that.

[jameslittle]

article writing is good choice indeed. But how do I be able to keep on producing good quality articles? There are time where I am stuck with ideas :-(

[ebusiness4all]

Another advantage of forum posting can be the inbound links they can generate which seem to be increasing in importance with the latest Google update.

Key to this will be to ensure that the Forum show your url in the signature and do not apply a rel=nofollow link.

Two hours seems a lot to me also. Remember that there are many other 'offline' ways to generate awareness of your site / business and your marketing activities should also have a balance of these other channels.

[timmathews.com]

I would have to agree. I am seeing some good ibl from this forum, and some others I post in in my time.
I used to spend hours in the forums writing as well, but honestly, you will burn yourself out...
I have posted hundreds of posts here... Most of them in a 2 month period, then I was mia from wpw for a while...

[remindme]

Originally Posted by ebusiness4all

Another advantage of forum posting can be the inbound links they can generate which seem to be increasing in importance with the latest Google update.

Key to this will be to ensure that the Forum show your url in the signature and do not apply a rel=nofollow link.

Most forums nowadays will NOT have the SEs follow..

[mktgbiz]

I like posting on forums for inbound links. I especially like getting others to add my link in their sig. ;-) That's the bomb.

I author a couple of ebooks on How To Get Sponsored For Fishing Tournaments and about a month ago I gave a new fishing friend both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 for FREE.

I aksed if he would add my link to his sig. He did. And he did it on every fishing site he posts on.

Writing articles are also good.

Coming up with new information is as simple as looking at your product or industry from a different point of view. Instead of looking at it from the positive side, look at it from the negative side. Look at it from all angles and you should be able to come up with a few new articles.

Hope that helps......

[Julia_SR]

Another benefit that I get from posting in forums is social interaction! Affiliate marketing can be a lonely business, sitting at your computer all day, so it's fun to take a break and read/post in forums! Plus, you're making valuable contacts and picking up tips at the same time, so I always spend about an hour a day in forums :)

[sizemonkey]

So how exactly does one create viral with articles? Do you have to wait for the engines to pick it up?

Thanks
Michael
http://sizemonkey.com

[rctoyhouse]

Yes, I agree. Most of my inbound links from yahoo/google are from this forum.

[funlounge]

Originally Posted by sizemonkey

So how exactly does one create viral with articles? Do you have to wait for the engines to pick it up?

Thanks
Michael
http://sizemonkey.com

You create a 1 page article and submit it to directories, such as http://articles.acemmedia.com

[ctabuk]

Good thread - I spend a fair amount of my day in and out of forums - I mod here - I have my own at www.davidcastle.org/BB/ and there are lots of WPW members there - I also love www.warriorforum.com/forum - the off topic section is as good as the WPW breakroom used to be. From an IBL point of view, I'll give you a little tip - place your forum username in your website and you will be amazed at the number of IBL's that can attract.

[indi]

My first post in associateprograms.com has helped my new site getting indexed by Google, MSN and Altavista. For traffic, I love submitting articles to some article directories.

[internet-marketing-cr]

Yes there are great advantages of participating in forums, not only the inbound links, but the great information you can find, I already participate in 6 or 7 SEO and SEM forums and the experience has been very positive, it really has helped me to get a lot of knowledge in the field.

[syndee.d.e.rn]

i possibly can spend 1-2hrs forum posting during and only when i am off

[JasMate]

Originally Posted by 101homebiz

I think everybody realized already that you are an intensiv writer in Forums (;-) Anyway, I like your very brief and compact postings.

However I would have two hours daily I would really invest them in writing articles. Articles is Viral Marketing, writing in Forums not.

To see the effectivity of your Forums Post the only thing you need to do is to analyze the statistics files in your Webspace, then you can read immediatelly how many visits did you receive from that.

I agree if you can master the art & find a bucket load of patients then article writing would be a much better way to drive traffic to your site. Also articles tend to be long term where as forum posts go to the archives fairly quickly in comparison.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by syndee.d.e.rn

i possibly can spend 1-2hrs forum posting during and only when i am off

Do that, but stop spamming.

[daisyjmv]

So...from what I am reading posting in the forums is a good way? Someone mentioned writing articles for viralling (new word?)

I want to market my affiliate sites, but don't want to be accused of spamming or anything like that.

I learn from the forums and meet some friendly people.

I guess, I will just keep on reading.....

daisyj

[prosperityqueen]

I would have to agree that posting on forums is a great idea to drive traffic to your website. Many of my new associates have found me on forums.http://www.keytoyourfuture.biz

[greeneagle]

None of the SEs pick up every forum post thread you post in, as a link. I am nearing 5000 posts since I joined WPW.

If I had spent my time writing articles, doing press releases and submitting to relevant directories, I'd probably have 10,000 IBLs in Google.

The SEs mostly relegate multiple links under one top domain to a very few at the most.

They fixed that issue a long time ago, prior Jagger if I remember right.

That's just not what forum participation is about.

Ken

[celc01]

I just started forum posting about a month ago but it has already brought me good results. I definitely recommend it.

[jrdorkin]

I don't have the time to spend in other forums that I wish I did, but forums are certainly great for traffic. One of my mods gets most of his traffic from his sig on our forums. It is nice to be able to send traffic to our best member's sites.

[ctabuk]

Originally Posted by greeneagle

None of the SEs pick up every forum post thread you post in, as a link. I am nearing 5000 posts since I joined WPW.

If I had spent my time writing articles, doing press releases and submitting to relevant directories, I'd probably have 10,000 IBLs in Google.

The SEs mostly relegate multiple links under one top domain to a very few at the most.

They fixed that issue a long time ago, prior Jagger if I remember right.

That's just not what forum participation is about.

Ken

Ken, with all possible respect, you are wrong. Forum posting is two fold.
Forums go back to Greek Times, they are a meeting place of different cultures, differing views and in the case of WPW it stand for Web Pro World - Website Professionals, which means we all have websites, we all want to be listed and therefore we exchange information, we give tips and advice and we mods give our time free but we receive 'thank you'messages - which makes it all worthwhile -BUT we are all here to obtain higher rankings, but you keep changing your sigs and whereas you may have made several thousand postings the use of the name 'greeneagle'it is as about as well known to the search engines as peanut butter is to penguins.

Use your forum sig to your own advantage, keep the same name in dozens of forums, post in the ones that give you the most backlinks. Of all the mods here I am the least technically minded, I am a salesman, a businessman, and I know why I post in forums and so do the Search Engines!!!!!

[greeneagle]

We have hashed this one out before ctabuk.

No one wants a Forum full of spammers!

When you get visitors from Forums it is because someone has an interest to see what you have to say and click on a sig link for the most part.

They do not generate many generic IBLs.

The best method to generate traffic is still using many different digital doors that are available now.

Forum posting is not the best method for generating traffic. It can be a good one particularly if you post something intelligent or very stupid.

Let's all understand:

1) That multiple postings in a single forum don't garner many IBL's.

2) Drive by shooting style posts without any value for the forum's community don't do anyone good and can greatly hurt a forum's value.

3) Posting little value doesn't command many visits, where real contributions can.

4) Abject Spammers are banned here quite frequently.

Ken

[ctabuk]

Yes we have 'hashed' this out before and we will keep doing it until I make you see where I am coming from. Forum Spammers is irelevant to this thread. You change your forum sigs about every 6 to 8 months - agreed or am I wrong? Normally they go to a different page or whatever.
Search "greeneagle" then search "ctabuk" I think you will agree that the SE's know me better than you. Are what we seeing IBL's or are they 'mentions'?
Well we (faglork and I)use those IBL's by creating a simple ctabuk on to each and every page of our site, I think simply, I'm not into technical mumbo jumbo I leave that to the experts - I deal in common sense, and my common sense tells me that if I'm doing it and I'm getting fantastic listings, then I'm doing it right. I have nothing to prove here, I'm on page 1 -2 or 3 on every possible SE for dozens and dozens of different keywords. Tell us your results Ken.

Also 'drive by postings' Jeepers Creepers that is the equivelent of calling ME a spammer. Wow, heavy stuff. Yes I'm in a lot of forums, but I only ever offer honest opions on various topics and so do a huge number of posters on this forum. It's called Marketing.

[greeneagle]

Again ctabuk, I haven't and don't market the alias "greeneagle" for any reason, nor do I want to.

Ken

[ctabuk]

You are pretty good at evading an answer Ken. You have stated that forum posting does very little good, well I hope you now realise that it does. End of Story.

[greeneagle]

David:

"You have stated that forum posting does very little good, well I hope you now realise that it does."

Carefully reread. I answered the question whether it is the "Best Way" and I'll answer it again. No it's not!

Using a combination of all the digital tools available to us as webmasters is the best way.

Some Sites would have no practical application for forum posting, especially some industrial sectors. In those case you would concentrate more on a Corporate Blog, Press Releases and Articles.

Ken

[ctabuk]

This is like pulling teeth - I thought KGun was a hard nut to crack LOL

Ken, Ken, Ken - if you're a webmaster then surely the idea is to get your clients site listed. Yes or No?

Assuming yes, then do this - keep the same sigs as you have now and post around a bit - then when you start to see those "greeneagle" results come pouring in, add your username to your clients site and watch the results start to flow in. What harm can it do? You are either in business to get your clients sites up and making money, or you enjoy pontificating about,'oh I won't do that' Try it.

[greeneagle]

Apples vs oranges - David

I have no need to promote those Sites.

If I were wanting to play that game I would need a more unique alias and also have to promote it (make it relevant) on my site.

I'd rather spend my time with unique and valuable content.

I get 800-1000 page views and 300 visitors per day.

For some reason my clients are ranked well and do fine with their Sites.

Ken

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by ctabuk

Assuming yes, then do this - keep the same sigs as you have now and post around a bit - then when you start to see those "greeneagle" results come pouring in, add your username to your clients site and watch the results start to flow in. What harm can it do? You are either in business to get your clients sites up and making money, or you enjoy pontificating about,'oh I won't do that' Try it.

David are you sure about that? I was reading two days ago an article at SireReference.com:

Backlink Anchor Text
The same principle applies to backlink anchor text as applies to keyword densities. Having 10,000 links to your site all with the same keyword phrase in them is going to look suspicious to say the least.

More about: http://www.site-reference.com/articl...imization.html

[ctabuk]

Webnauts, I have read that, and if I were to spam my keywords then yes I could fall foul of the SE's - but I vary my subjects and because we have Google Alerts coming in every minute of the day we get a multitude of search terms that find us listed. The most bizarre one this week was on Yahoo where someone had searched 'David Tenants Wife' we are listed 2nd - now is that weird or what - Well not really, my name is David and I run Council Tenants Advice Bureau - so there is the connection.
David Tenant is the Actor now playing Doctor Who. But in fact his name is spelt Tennant.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by ctabuk

David Tenant is the Actor now playing Doctor Who. But in fact his name is spelt Tennant.

Did you check if he has bad spelling on his page?

[ctabuk]

There is no page - someone searching the name could not spell properly.

[sarpras]

Forum posting also provide one way link to your website.

[jesterx]

back in november last year i was helping someone on a forum and came up with an idea, I started a viral campaign , I wont go too much in details and reveal the secrets but it had to do with a funny photo i sent out to 30 of my friends and in december there were so many forwards of this email my website host rang up and said there was so much traffic coming to my site I was running out of bandwith...LOL now thats not a bad thing.

just another good example of using smart marketing tactics. I did this...it only took minutes to set up and im receiving massive traffic from this still in the start of 07'

sometimes the things that work the best are the simplest. And you normally get all your good ideas driving in your car or when you sleeping. (you know the term...sleep on it) yes this does work.

make sure you carry a notepad with you all the time..if an idea pops into your head that intrigues you jot it down and test it later. you be amazed at the ideas that you come up with. but the important thing is to act apon those ideas and test them. If they dont work....who cares at least you gave it a shot and know to try something else. This is the fun bit of marketing. you will have many mistakes...well you can have a million mistakes but you really only have to get it right once...and you can make tons and tons of money.

get help from others expertise in forums like this you'll be suprise what lengths people will go to help you out.

[Manapol]

Originally Posted by ctabuk

From an IBL point of view, I'll give you a little tip - place your forum username in your website and you will be amazed at the number of IBL's that can attract.

i'm kind of a newbie to all this, can you explain how that works?