Forum Posting – A Different Kind of Marketing
The Cheapest, Fastest Way to Advertise on the Internet
Posting on forums is one of the cheapest and fastest ways in which you can advertise affiliate products on the Internet. However, in order to do this successfully, you must do a number of things carefully.
Simply spamming forums with your affiliate link might be a good way to get banned from a particular forum board, but it will never be a good way to make sales.
The general procedure involves making multiple posts on a forum board before you even setup a signature file, which includes a link to your site. Even if the particular forum you are using does not specifically mandate this, you will want to do it anyway as it will increase your credibility – which is your real goal.
You can start by finding a number of forums for your particular niche or marketing angle. You can find massive lists of forums at the following two URLs:
http://board123.com/forum_directory.php
The first resource is currently the largest forum directory on the Internet. The second resource contains lesser directories, but includes some that are not listed on Big Boards.
Now, once you have selected a number of directories that match your specific marketing angle and affiliate product, you will want to investigate to determine whether or not they have excess rules regulating signature files.
For instance, some sites do not allow any links in signature files; others, by contrast, allow links, but do not allow any commercial links. Make sure you know what the rules are before you post. Otherwise, you are simply setting yourself up to be banned from the forum.
Next, take the list of forums you have created – that are both relevant to your topic and allow commercial links – and begin developing a reputation on those forums. Post regularly, avoid meaningless fights and flaming, and contribute useful, on-target information to discussions. In a matter of 1-2 weeks, you will have developed a good aura provided that the forum receives a considerable amount of traffic.
Once you have good reputation, you will want to begin advertising through your forum signature. Ideally, you will want to include some eye-catching assortment of colors, symbols, and words in your signature.
This will draw people’s attention. You will then want to link them to something other than an affiliate page –it can be a page you created to sell an affiliate product or an auto responder course used to capture email addresses. Remember to repeat this process in all applicable forums.
In summary:
- Look for high traffic forums that allow commercial link posting in signature files. These should also happen to fit with your specific audience-targeting and marketing goals.
- Next, create a reputation.
- Last, add your signature in some attractive way that draws visitors’ attention, but is also likely to convert them into interested clickers.
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