Forum Marketing - How to Market Using Forums

[manik]

Forums could play significant role marketing websites. Like all other marketing techniques this gotta be play by rules.

So how can you do marketing using forums

Pick Related Ones
Make a list of forums related to the website you like to market. Signup on those forums.

Check Forum Rules
Forum owners set there own rules. In cases rules could be really different. One forum I know, you will get an infraction if you post a live link. Its the forum rules you gotta live with if you like to be part of the joint.

Set Avatar, Signature, Profile, Feed Url
Set your profile with all the key info. A profile with lot of info catches more attention easily. If your website offers syndication feed and the forum accepts that, its good idea to set that; then posts you make should show the most recent entry of your feed.

Set a nice avatar highlighting the key message of your website. Signature would allow you a like link with keywords. Some forums would not allow you set avatar/signature until you make certain amount of posts. Set those at your first chance.

Less Live Links
Lot of forums do not like to see too much live links for reasons. Its good idea to post a link only when its necessary.

Learn the Environment
You should spend enough time checking out the posts on the forum. This would get you familiarize with other members, how they talk etc etc.

Contribute and Get Respect
Always try to contribute to the forum. Its only then other forum members gonna value what you say, when you help other members more.

Stay off the Fights
Its usually a good idea not to get in a fight. If you have to express your opinion, its good to do it in a calm professional manner.

Dont Spam
Some people tend to leave links just everywhere they can spamming forums. Its a highway to go banned.

Prepare a Plan
Plan out how you gonna perform your forum marketing works.

Be Regular
Post regularly at the forums you participate. Marketing is singing the same song over and over; so people just memorize it, know it. Thats what you ought to do with your marketing plan.

[Gensofts]

wow manik good guideline for forum marketing, forum marketing is best way for increasing traffic as well SERP...good tips thanks

[elizabethjohne]

Hello manik,

Some key points to remember when getting one way links from forums:-

1. Find relevant forums that addresses 100% to the product/service you are looking to promote
2. Post your discussion only under a relevant category
3. If you are a expert, post reply only after a proper research, you will not only add value to the forum, but will also add value to your own self. Some, service seeker might even call you directly to seek a professional consultation.
4. Do not forget to read the forum's usage policy before you use them. After you read the policies mentioned, kindly stick to them.
5. Do not try to get too many links at a time. Google penalizes such activity. Getting around 50 links per week is known to be fine.
6. Post links using signatures only.

Forums/discussions/groups those address almost anything:-

1. groups.google.com
2. groups.yahoo.com
3. msnusers.com

Thanks,

[manik]

Hello manik,

Some key points to remember when getting one way links from forums:-

1. Find relevant forums that addresses 100% to the product/service you are looking to promote
2. Post your discussion only under a relevant category
3. If you are a expert, post reply only after a proper research, you will not only add value to the forum, but will also add value to your own self. Some, service seeker might even call you directly to seek a professional consultation.
4. Do not forget to read the forum's usage policy before you use them. After you read the policies mentioned, kindly stick to them.
5. Do not try to get too many links at a time. Google penalizes such activity. Getting around 50 links per week is known to be fine.
6. Post links using signatures only.

Forums/discussions/groups those address almost anything:-

1. groups.google.com
2. groups.yahoo.com
3. msnusers.com

Thanks,

good points as well. Thanks

[Jenie0109]

Joining forums is a great way to promote your service and to network. If you become an active member in forums you can use your reputation to promote your website. Many forums receive large amounts of traffic and people pay attention to well respected members with high post counts.

[BrainPulse]

great tips there i think very help full for newbie looks like for posting guideline nice post manik!!

[pawan]

Be Regular
Post regularly at the forums you participate. Marketing is singing the same song over and over; so people just memorize it, know it. Thats what you ought to do with your marketing plan.

This point is very effective. Regular visit help you gain all update and other marketing tactic which you can use for increasing your traffic/business.

[Jenny101]

Good one! i think these tips will really help all webmasters and SEO people out here.

[luckygal]

I think marketing through forums not much effective now. Most of the forums don't allow advertising. You described the forum marketing in a brief style. It is a very useful post.

[mallin]

Online business is so huge right now, and that's what you guys do...most of your threads cater right into the waiting hands of all those people interested in starting websites and making money online. That's your angle, thats what you have to develop your marketing mix around.

I would advise you to do these two things to help fatten your revenues from the site.

First, I suggest you create a newsletter, a kind of best of cosmos email that you send out weekly to keep members abreast on the newest happening in online revenue generation. You can even sell ad space in this once your readership gets big enough.

Second, i would advise teaming up with the nuts and bolts sites that sell domain names and such. In this way you can advertise on their sites and their users will see your business and then go to it whenever they have a question regarding online business.

Do these two and you should be able to brand you self as one of the premier go to sites for all things online business.

[sweetfranky]

I love forums, but make sure they are dofollow or it's useless. D:

[Liz.nogan]

With forum marketing, you can just google search what ever market your in followed by forum. in forums you are giving the opportunity to add a link to your site in your signature.

When using forums always contribute and never spam, provide good useful tips and and get involved in active conversations

[dzinestand]

We can get visitors and get popular by forum site

[lmsportal]

Great post for forum marketing.. But a person should keep on mind that if he will continuously spamming on the forum site.. So the owner of that forum can block that.. So a person should read the forum's usage policy carefully...

[Hafsoh]

To do forum marketing, you find a well populated forums that relate to your niche and contribute wisely to those forums. If you do not write relevant posts, you may likely to get banned by the forum mods and will be termed a forum Spammer!
Forum marketing is great if use effectively...