Saturday, March 22, 2008
Forum Marketing can Create Gold...just do it the Right Way
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For anyone who's watched the movie 'Field of Dreams' The quote "Build it and they will come" always echoes around their minds when they first get an online business going.
So off they go learning everything they need to know about html and images etc. And before long they have their site up and running.
Then comes the disappointment, the lost hope and eventually the despair! Each day and they check their 'hit counter' or web stats - they notice that the millions on the World Wide Web just
haven't been along for a visit!
The sudden dawning and realization hits them that the internet is not a 'Field of Dreams', and no-one is coming. What follows is weeks or perhaps months of surfing from one site to the next in order to find out how to get noticed...
how to get visitors to find their sites.
This usually leads on to excess money being spent on all sorts of promised solutions, anything from buying traffic that produces a swirl of hits appearing on their counters -
but unfortunately no sales (from totally non targeted pop ups and the like) to paying out a fortune for someone to 'Optimize' their site - or even trying to learn SEO and becoming lost in a maze of coding and slapping and bots!
Eventually our new webmasters learn that it costs a good deal to generate truly targeted traffic in either time or money resources ... or they quit and give up their dreams.
And yet - they could have so easily found enough success and targeted traffic if they'd only know or been told where to look!
One such place is the growing number of forums available on the net today!
Forum traffic can be a very effective and FREE source of some of the most highly targeted forms of traffic. available.
If a web master searches out forums relevant to the subject matter of his or her website and becomes involved in these forums, it doesn't take long before other forum users see the 'signature strip' in their posts. (That's the one or two lines at the bottom of each post with a link to the posters website, that most forums allow)
This then leads people who value the info being posted about to follow those links to the website which, if the right forums have been posted in, would contain more valuable info on the subject.
Hence these visitors would be highly targeted to that particular site and far more likely to become regular visitors and potential customers.
A search of any of the popular search engines would soon reveal many forums for almost any subject you could think of, So there really isn't any reason why anyone with a website couldn't benefit greatly from this FREE targeted traffic.
All that's required in most cases is to join the forum and become a regular poster to gain credibility within the forum....pretty soon the website stats would show an influx of visitors all acquired for fre'e, but more importantly - all targeted specifically to that particular site.
Not only would any site owner benefit from this FREE targeted traffic, there are also opportunities to network with others who share similar interests and may well have complimentary websites, partnerships and mutually beneficial banner or ad swaps can further a'd to the increase in FREE targeted traffic achieved from forums.
As you can see just from this short article - there is still a vast supply of FREE highly targeted traffic to be had - if you know where to look.
So for the sake of your hit counter - do start visiting forums and searching for more of them as soon as you can. You never know what may happen, and you'll have the advantage of keeping hold of your cash for other forms of promotions.
Remember
"If you build it they will come" - but you have to let them know where to!
Cindy Battye
Cindy is a Webmaster specialising in FRE'E Forum Traffic. She currently has an eBook called ForumTrafficGold on sale as a digital download It's available from
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Chuck
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