I was reading a few posts on a forum today and noticed a post where someone was asking what is the fastest way to get traffic so I thought I would share my answer here: PPC is a great way to get traffic but it actually is not the quickest way to get traffic or the least expensive. The quickest way to generate free targetted traffic is using forum posting. The great thing about forum posting is that it does not take long at all and it can be completed in as little as one hour. All you need to do is a quick search on Google or Yahoo to find forums related to your site and then make up a nice signature for your posts before you start posting. For example, if you have a site about Carpal Tunnel, find some carpal tunnel and health related forums - there’s plenty of them. If you’re targeting a big forum, most posts will get a few hundred views and making a few posts per day at several forums will definately get some eyeballs to your site. In fact, I’ve been able to get more than 200 uniques per day on day 1 of a brand new site from just forum traffic - and these people buy and click on adsense as long as you have great content. Tip: Make sure you include relevant anchor text in your forum signature. Apart from getting fast traffic, posting on forums is good for getting your sites indexed and ranked too. After each post, social bookmark them (use OnlyWire or BookMarking Demon) to get them noticed by the search engines faster.
Can you explain more about social bookmarking and why it will help to get faster search engine rankings?
Good post. Social bookmarking in my opinion is a good help because it gets people to see your site in the short term - then, if people blog about your site, you get long term links from that. I usually pick up a couple of new visitors from digg / stumble, who write blog posts, which give long term traffic. I'm not bothered about getting on the front page of those kinds of sites - the traffic spike is nice, but it's more the longer term benefits that keep me submitting.
Newbie marketing 101 Actually this can be a very effective way to get traffic to a new site but you have to be careful as many forum mods are quick with the ban hammer.