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Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by marcusium, May 8, 2013.

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    Hi guys could you help me please I have recently created a forum and no mater what I do I just cant get any traffic could you please tell me how to?
    http://letsforum.com
    thank
     
    marcusium, May 8, 2013 IP
  2. OfficialRTS

    OfficialRTS Active Member

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    One of the new ways to drive traffic is via video marketing. You could start a YouTube channel up and drive traffic making videos related to what your websites are about. Facebook, twitter, and instagram are also place you can build a following for constant traffic. Also you can try article marketing, along with guest blogging. This is where you go offer to write an article for a person on their website then ask for a link to your website in return.
     
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  3. Vikash Frank Mor

    Vikash Frank Mor Active Member

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    I am agree with some point, But these are traditional approach. Can you brief us about out of box approach for the getting huge traffic. It will take too much time to get real and targeted traffic.
     
    Vikash Frank Mor, May 8, 2013 IP
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    seo-info Greenhorn

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    Initially you can drive from SMO but you need to create links for your website.
     
    seo-info, May 9, 2013 IP
  5. Vikash Frank Mor

    Vikash Frank Mor Active Member

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    Thanks for attentions,
    But i hate low quality back links, i want to do SEO accordingly to Google new algorithms about website optimizations. How people can like my page without saying them anything. i want to get real likes automatically.
     
    Vikash Frank Mor, May 9, 2013 IP
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    Social Media is very good resource for good traffic.
     
    JiniOnline, May 9, 2013 IP
  7. marcusium

    marcusium Greenhorn

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    Thank you all very much for your support
     
    marcusium, May 9, 2013 IP
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    afoley77 Active Member

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    Create blogs for your forum site and also promote it with the help of social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, etc, You will surely get good traffic...
     
    afoley77, May 9, 2013 IP
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    manuel hormaechea Peon

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    Hi guys,

    I tried to send traffic to my web of circuitos de karting by the legal way, triying to annunce my web in many different sites but I haven´t very good results, could you explain me how can I do it? Thank you!
     
    manuel hormaechea, May 10, 2013 IP
  10. JiniOnline

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    Start social media campaign, participate in forums, do blogging and guest blogging to gain traffic instantly.
     
    JiniOnline, May 10, 2013 IP
  11. maverickk3

    maverickk3 Notable Member

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    Offsite SEO
    On site SEO
    social media campaigns
    rich media campaigns
    Also would you ever do a registration in an empty forum ? Nope , paid posting for starters its a must.

    Regards
     
    maverickk3, May 10, 2013 IP
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    I loaded a killer strategy into the marketplace for driving high-volume traffic (nearly 60,000 unique new visitors in the first 3 days), but it's only for eCommerce sites or sites selling a product or book so I don't think that would apply to you. If you're trying to promote a forum, you actually have two problems - you need traffic and engagement.

    Forums are one of the most difficult sites to start... to get traffic you need engaging topics, and to get engaging topics you need traffic. Nobody wants to bother registering on a forum where they won't be heard.

    I've had an idea on how to overcome this, but I've never tested it. The idea is you find a handful of news sites with stories in your niche and lots of comments, and use that to seed a new forum. Write a script that fetches the title and a short blurb from RSS, with a link back to the original post, then automate creating some 'dummy' accounts based on the comments. You could script it out so the post title becomes the thread title, and the comments are replies to the original thread.

    In theory, that would give your forum the illusion of activity, which would encourage real humans to join the conversation.
     
    ronrule, May 10, 2013 IP
  13. marcusium

    marcusium Greenhorn

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    Thanks you all guys for trying to help me out!
     
    marcusium, May 11, 2013 IP
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    RULE Well-Known Member

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    Join a big community buddy! (Niche community)
     
    RULE, May 11, 2013 IP
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    For promoting a forum, other related forums would help you a lot, try to participate in related and high traffic forums on regular basis. At the same time, develop content in your forum, this way you would get some visitors from search engines driving from long tail keywords from your forum content..
     
    SERPpoint, May 13, 2013 IP
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    Social media, forum self promotion, seo rinse repeat.
     
    Info-Junkie90, May 14, 2013 IP
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    update information on social media to collect fans or participate forum and create a topic to attract traffic
     
    Sabrina_Gage, May 15, 2013 IP
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    You can also get a lot of traffic using social media, we use tweetadder to automate our twitter account and after a few weeks we reached the 2.000 followers mark and we get a substantial part of our website visitors via twitter.

    - Make sure you post your rss feed to twitter using serrvices like tweetfeed
    - Automate your following/unfollow process using tweetadder
    - Also manually check up on your twitter account

    Within a month you will have more visitors !
     
    Dominick, May 15, 2013 IP
  19. Eugene_K.

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    Not sure what was the point to start another "How do I get traffic topic" - there are tons of guides and existing threads you can use even to promote a forum.

    Here's are some threads here and on BHW:

    1. http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/other-ppc-networks/518193-wher-can-i-buy-good-traffic.html

    2. http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...-what-best-still-simple-tool-get-traffic.html

    Short guide is right here:
    Ok, because this post is quite generic, let me try to expand it:

    Facebook:
    Let's take an easy example.
    You are trying to promote a blog with some funny videos.

    Quick way:
    1. Start a group page on the Facebook
    2. Search for other groups with the content similar to yours.
    3. Send them a message that you want to promote your page on their wall
    4. Pay them couple bucks per link they share.
    In ideal, they have to share link to your album - sharing regular links in the form of thumbnails is not very effective due to the small size of thumbnails.
    5. Make sure you track your links (through bit.ly for example) so you know exactly how many clicks, when, and content gives you.
    (Maybe I'm a bit paranoid but I always like to use third-party tracking)
    6. Having the information on what people like more, when they are online, and where are they from, you can now adjust your group to their interests.

    Long way:
    1. Start a group on the Facebook
    2. Search for other groups with the content similar to yours.
    3. Like them.
    4. Kindly ask them to cross-promote.
    5. Find community pages
    6. Spend some time finding who owns posting privileges there (sometimes it's not that easy)
    7. Kindly ask them to post your uber-funny picture on their wall.
    8. Repeat steps 2-7 until you have couple hundred thousands likes.

    Twitter:
    1. Get Hootsuite [​IMG] to monitor multiple conversations otherwise you'll be in the world of pain in no time.
    Also, I've heard TweetDeck is another option for this.
    2. Find people who post similar content and follow them.
    3. Use Hootsuite or TweetDeck to monitor who's discussing/sharing this content - they are your potential readers.
    4. Engage them in the conversation, share you awesome content with them, and odds are they will check out your blog.

    Guess Socialboost was talking about Google+
    Similar steps.

    1. Look for groups and hangouts that have relevant content.
    2. Join them
    3. Add their members to your circle
    4. Engage them in the conversation on what they like/dislike.
    Ask them to share some content.
    5. Return the "favor" and share couple links to your blogs on peoples' and groups' pages.

    And for the love of God, don't just post bs like "Oh, use Social Media! Good Luck!"
     
    Eugene_K., May 15, 2013 IP
  20. Amanda103

    Amanda103 Greenhorn

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    Hi
    Try publishing fresh and valuable content and don't forget to use bookmarking sites.
     
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