Forum Marketing

How often do you visit forums? If you’re in web business then you must visit a lot of forums each day. Forums are another easiest way to get your visitors and clients for your business. There are a lot of big and small forums which helps you in bigger and smaller way. There are several ways you can use the forums for the development of your business.

First thing is to put your website in the forum signature. If you’re a very regular forum poster in a popular forum like DigitalPoing or NamePros then your link will be displayed thousand of times each day. And that will be equally effective like any other side links. You can even place a whole banner in some forums. Its a good alternative of a banner advertising if you’re in lack of money.

Second, make a attractive, may be animated small thumbnail size picture with some catchy texts and place it as your avatar. It helps a lot. Remember the avatar should have something offering. Like “Free PR5 Webdirectory” rather than “www.sitename.com”.

Third, you can recommend your own product to others. Suppose if you have a web directory then go the directory section of DP forum and you’ll see thousand of threads about the directories. Including your link within the right thread and right category never will be called a Spam. So, say something like “This site is offering free site submission”. Even if you’re not giving it for free, you can say something like ” This site have this feature which others do not have”.

And if its not a popular site, you can still have some advantages. Specially if its in some specific topics. Just make an username, put your link in signaure and post one or more thread and you’re done. Forum threads later can be seen into the Search engine thus your site will be seen.

I’ve experiment this and I am getting pretty good result. I have signature links for my one site in more than one hundred sites and I am getting at least 20 visitors from one of them. I’ve not yet logged in 75 of them since last year.

In this way, forum is another hot and easiest way to market your website. If you don’t believe then see Namepros and Digitalpoint forums.You can see hundreds of people buying and selling forum signatures in the top forums.

For an entrepreneur a startup of a business is one the most difficult phases of his career. If some one has taken one of those affiliate programs then awareness amongst product audience is non existent for a startup. One does not has to look for expensive advertising campaigns for brand awareness. One method that can be cheap if managed properly is pay per click advertising programs of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Other methods are email marketing, a form of direct marketing, link and banner posting in forums, search engine optimization, and social networking websites.