Forum marketing is one of the most effective Internet marketing strategies available today. Leveraging forums is a great strategy for affiliate marketers who don’t have big pockets and advertising budgets.
Forum marketing, in its simplest terms, revolves around:
- Asking Questions
- Providing Answers
- Sharing Information
Questions, answers, and information provide value to the reader. Once you provide something of value then you can offer the reader further value by clicking on your link. This link can be a direct link (redirects) to an affiliate offer or a link to your web site.
When posting to forums it is important that you don’t use blatant ads. Forums are about providing valuable and relevant information. Most forum administrators and members frown upon blatant advertising within forum posts.
Spamming forums with advertisements and irrelevant information will get your account closed and your posts removed. It will also damage your online reputation and brand.
The objective when posting to forums is to provide relevant information. Within this information, you can place relevant links to your affiliate offers or web site. You want links to appear naturally within your questions, answers, reviews, recommendations, critiques, opinions, and other information.
Links can also appear in your forum signature. This is usually a 2-3 line section that appears below each of your posts. Creating a forum signature and placing links in your signature is critical to successful forum marketing.
Conducting a forum marketing campaign is straight forward:
- Join forums that are related to your niche or targeted keywords
- Create forum signatures which contain links to your affiliate offers
- Search for posts and threads with your targeted keyword in them
- Reply to posts with relevant information that includes your keyword
- Create new threads that provide value and contain your keywords
- Monitor and reply to responses with more value and keyword based information
Dominating a thread with multiple posts is an excellent method to increase link popularity, search engine rankings, search engine traffic, forum traffic, and subsequent affiliate commissions.
If done correctly (no spam), forum marketing can be a powerful and effective affiliate marketing strategy.
1 comment:
One thing to remember when using forum marketing is to stick to some kind of schedule. You should have a regular schedule when your browsing and posting to forums. Otherwise, you won't get anything else done except posting to forums. Believe me, they can get quite addictive.
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