Effective Forum Posting led me to 2739 monthly visitors from forums

I have been posting on forums since the day I started in the web industry. I learned alot from forums. That is why I often answer support questions in selected forums to help others out from my knowledge.

Recently, I have been collecting the stats on my blog and see how much traffic I am getting from these forums. And I calculated this to be about 2739 monthly visitors on average. That is alot of visitors to be coming from a source.

Mostly these visitors are coming from posts and threads that I made in forums just to help people. Share my thoughts, or maybe share a blogpost that I made which I thought deserved more attention.

After seeing the results, I made a small report or a guide to forum posting which I say effective forum posting rules because if you use these, you will be bound to get more traffic than usual. Alot of it is pretty common sense, but I understand that when you are starting, you seem to ignore the most simplest things.

I will describe each step that I think necessary very briefly.

1) Picking the right forum

Yes there are huge forums in the web that have a large audience. But these forums are not very well targetted. Sometimes smaller forums are the way to get more targetted and loyal readers. Or if you are in large forums, then focus only on a few categories that pertains to your niche.

2) Picking a username

People often end up picking retarded usernames like their company names. I suggest you don't do that specially if your site is makemoneyonline.com because then you would be the least credible person to be trusted. Pick a short, and interesting name which is easy to remember.

3) Posting and Linking

This topic is huge, so you would need to read the full article, but in the post I share some of the ways you can effectively link in your posts and benefit your websites.

4) How to effectively use signatures and avatars.

Most people sorry to say, but do not know how to use their signature links effectively. You can use your signature links like a PPC advertisement target toward a specific page of your website rather than the homepage.

If you guys want to see the full details with the stats of which forums are sending me the traffic (Yes DP is one of them) then please check out the full post at Balkhis


Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Mods: I hope you don't find this spammy because I think this article deserve the attention of the DP audience and this can start a genuine discussion.

 

good work man i hope you bring to us always new things

 

thanks for Sharing such a great piece information.

Regards
Lisa M. Stewart

 

Your 1. and 4. are very true. I get a couple thousand visitors a month from mainly google, but the majority of backlinks come from forums/signitures. Anyway it is important to know how to place a link in your sig.

 

Forums usually have good ranking in Search Engines, so your posts on a good topic will likely be ranked high and it will influence your search engine traffic significantly if you have the right keyword.

 

I agree with smub. Posting to relevant forums will bring you good traffic. I've been doing the same strategy i.e. posting to parenting, moms forum and got good numbers from it.

The key thing here is to post well-thought out answers that other readers will find useful.

 

Yes that is one of the main things. I often use support forums for this vary reason because if you provide good support to like themes or something then people are likely to visit your website.

 

I completely understand what you say. However, the information won't work for everyone. You have to be in a niche where there's just a ton of traffic to begin with.

I found out, [ I was kinda greedy ] that my niche doesn't have a ton of competition, nor traffic. Everyone in my niche is a professional, so all their websites are geared toward selling themselves. They don't frequent forums, they don't sit around and chat, they don't make videos. Literally I'm almost alone in the niche, however there's not that much traffic each month. [ I swear I'm not whining ]

My point is, this is great info if your niche has lots of traffic monthly.

Get this, you might laugh, The amount of people that come to your site, is the amount of total searches monthly in my niche LOL. I bet I end up rich when it's all done though. I like my niche, but it's kinda lonely, there's no webmaster rival or friend I can shoot the breeze with.

 

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You are right that this won't work in all niche but it will work most competitive niche. You might end up rich without doing so because there are alot more ways to make money than just blogging or advertising. This was just one of the ways I saw working so I shared

 

Oh I know, The first thing i said was I completely understand what you're saying.

I wanted to make sure people don't get frustrated if they're in a low end niche like me. They might put tons of effort in forumn posting and trolling for hours, only to show nothing but better seo and no traffic.

That's why I kep distinguishing my niche and I KNOW there's very small traffic for it. My niche is small, but they are all buyers, there's no browsing. I like not playing fair.

But yeah, this whole internet marketing is frustrating I just wanted to agree with you and make sure some people didn't think if it doesn't happen for them, that they don't get frustrated and quit.

 

Yeah statistics prove that when something does not work most people ended up quitting because they think what they were doing is wrong. You bring up a good point which I should've mentioned is that if it does not work for you try an alternative way specially in marketing.

You are lucky to have all buyers in your niche

 

WOw...nice advice guys....i will doing what r u doing.... thank you

 

Forums should be the first step of any newbie to get the latest information and updates at least in the internet marketing industry. You can learn lot of things by participating in forums and on top of that some descent traffic through forum signatures. Make sure your have some catchy signatures lines to attract the traffic.

By the ways how many forums have you been posting?

 

spot on smub, I agree completely. The great thing about marketing is that there isn't a set way to make money, you can be creative as you like, thanks for sharing.

 

Thnx for sharing this, good work man

 

I find many forums do not accept ads even in signature.

 

Wow, I was looking for some information like this.
Thanks for the assistance.

 

I agree, good posting could bring you huge amount of traffic, but also good replies do so as well, i use both techniques and they work well.
But bear in mind that the title is the most useful thing that will lead traffic to your post, don't skip it.

 

I have been posting on majorly about 5 forums. Alot of them I am no longer active, but some of my posts are really highly ranked in google and they bring me alot of traffic.

 

Im also getting a lot of traffic from forums, but im always willing to improve so i read your post and found out some other new ways of getting traffic through forums.