Forum marketing

Just wondering, is software that mass posts on forums legal? What about mass private messages? What about friend adders for social networks? Just asking in theory. thanks alot!

 

Yes, it is illegal.

 

Illegal and unethical.

 

Illegal, but forum marketing can still be very profitable if you find a good niche forum and build up a reputation for yourself. Signature links can be a great way to get interested buyers.

 

In addition to the above mentioned comments, such software is also probably useless. You would wanna join forums to learn, share and do business. Establish yourself as an trusted expert in forums, and you will receive targeted visitors. I doubt any mass commenting software could do that.

 

mass posting on forums never works, just find high pr forums and post manually.

 

So true. Half the time, posts made by software don't even make sense, so they sure wouldn't create a positive relationship with other users.

 

In general, its not ethical or give you any great benefit, but still for you curiosity it may be legal or illegal depends upon the forums you are targeting as every forum has their own rules.

 

I think most people just get annoyed with mass spamming like that. It's not doing anything to build up the reputation for your company, or for yourself. So many these days are losing the personal touch with the ever growing demand for social media. However, that is the part that sells and makes you a memorable business.

 

wow glad i asked! i was actually under the impression that it was legal. are friend adders on myspace illegal too? damn i actually found out about those in a marketing book put out by mtv. thats why i said just in theory because i wasnt actually participating in it. ive got plenty of other tricks up my sleeve though.

 

What book?

 

actually it was friend adders i found about in the book. it was called Myspace Profit Monster, put out by MTV press. So are the frind adders legal and not the forum posters?

 

legal, you can send your spam to spam sections .... I have over 200 forums where can I submit message to spam section 100% legally .... I working with auto forum submitter software, 200 forums in 30 secs and done

 

Waste of time if you ask me - nothing pays more than a lot of hard work and sheer determination. Why use automated software to send out posts which do not make sense, half of which probably won't even be made and will be worthless to you. Bear in mind that it has been known for a website to actually get negative feedback from the search engines with certain automated software.

Just my opinion on the matter for what it's worth

 

Go ahead and give it a try! I'll bet you make a ton sales and because people love it when their favorite forums get flooded with worthless spam! So it's totally worth every penny you spend on the software!





That's sarcasm, in case you couldn't figure that out. You won't make any sales. Your accounts will get banned. And you might even get put on an anti-spam developer's blacklist (which should be fun when they put out their newest product and your URL is already on their list). But I know you probably won't listen to me.

 

im just doing research here. ive heard alot of people use friend adders on myspace with success though because you can taget specific niches of people. theres jsut the legal issue which i am trying to find out.

 

There's a saying: "Easy come. Easy go"

I hope you understand!

 

Its not illegal really, but the ethics side of it is shady.

 

Yes it is.

 

the forum staff will hate you if you do it. Imagine your own website comment board being flooded with useless spam.

This is to all marketer using auto posting software. Do not ever do it. It is definitely not as effectively compared to posting manually and gaining reputation on the website.