Get Free Traffic With Forum Marketing

Very often, entrepreneurs who start out online end up losing money and wasting time trying to get traffic to their websites and I have to admit, I was once there. It’s a fact that I was once a newbie, I once lost over a grand on advertising and even I have even been scammed a couple times. Many have walked the path I have, committed many blunders…some may have even experienced worse but that’s not the point here. What I am trying to get at, is that these mistakes have taught most of us (entrepreneurs) to be smarter, to start thinking "out of the box" when making business decisions.

Today I’m going to show you how thinking "out of the box" can help you get traffic the lazy way & gain exposure to your website with just one or a few forum posts. Yes, you heard it right. Before I tell you about the forum method, I want to set the record straight. I know some of you would like it to be, “Mike, can you show us step by step how to do it…what to say and what to do.” Well, I’m sorry I’ll have to disappoint you if you ask to be spoon-fed. If you feel that what I am about to share with you makes good sense, you’ll be able to do it instinctively. That is the spirit about doing online business. You need to understand that when it comes to marketing, you are dealing with a real human being and not some robot you can feed a few sentences to and it will hand you whatever you desire.

So, why Forum Marketing? The context in which your customers get to see your offer is very important.

Example: If your potential customer is searching on Google, their guard is higher, however, if they know they are searching in a forum, they are less guarded because forums create a sense of community where everyone’s opinions are open for others to criticize.

Visitors in forums are usually there to look for new information as people constantly want to be in the know. They are also there to seek opinions. The trust there is enough that they will be open to other people’s suggestions. Everyone wants to have a say and give their own opinions whether they are competent or not.

So how do you get traffic to your website from forums with just one or a few posts? You get them to give you their opinion. Let’s say you’re in a Yoga niche. You could pose a question like:

“I know some of you may not like Ashtanga Yoga but I also know that it helps to awaken your body’s energy…which camp do you belong to? Do you prefer Ashtanga Yoga or others?”

You will certainly get a heated debate here automatically and you can recommend the exact Ashtanga Yoga DVDs in your forum signature. You can also post again to comment after other people’s replies for added boost. With so much content on your post or topic, it’s like creating a long article of content, not created by you but by the forum users.

What this does is to create new content that Google will easily index (generally forum pages are highly indexed by Google), therefore bringing traffic not only from forum users but also from the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN…and for a long while. When visitor traffic arrives, your signature will be exposed to them, so make sure you use a good headline for your signature.

A few proven signature lines are:
Example: If you’re in a weight loss niche and your post is about a pill called "Y":

Benefit Oriented Signature: Melt off 200% more fat when doing this exercise with "Y"…
Special Offer Signature: Special Offer For "Y" Members of Yoga Forum …
Your Case Study Signature: (People love to read about people, that’s why blogs are so popular) Read My Journey with Pill "Y" and how I got rid of 30 pounds of FAT in 17 days …

These are just the tip of the iceberg for ways to generate traffic. I’d love to hear from you, so please share your thoughts in the comments section below and be sure to let me know your results.

Best of luck to you,
Mike Filsom

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