Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey has sent a well-written newsletter today on how to utilize forum to drive traffic to your websites or blogs. It might be some old news but I attest to the efficiency of forums in sending my sites and blogs “targeted traffic.” My blog’s analytics shows how much more pageviews I get whenever a visitor comes from a forum.
Here’s the mojo behind forum traffic:
As what Yaro instructs forum participants, gain respect from other forum members by adding value to the forum. This is accomplished through getting into discussions and contributing significant information or “meat” to the thread for other members to learn from or start conversing about.
Adding value increases your credibility and your blog or website could just benefit so well from this credibility. Just how do you exactly lead visitors to your website after earning that credibility? That’s your forum signature’s job. Instead of placing quotations or clever thoughts as your signature, a link, (a link with a very good description of your site, which should hint potential readers of what they can benefit from visiting it) is what will promote your blog or website. Hyperlinking it well will do wonders even. A little HTML tweaking shall help you with that.
Targeted traffic follows after securing that authority since many would be just too curious of what your website offers after being able to lead people into solving problems or getting enlightened with your forum posts.
It’s true that your forum posts are like bits of your site’s profile or your own resume’. So, it’s important that you don’t spam any forum or violate any of their rules.
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