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Forum marketing is one of the best ways to market your product or website. Find as many highly relevant forums to your niche, join each one and become a productive member. You can benefit in a number of ways.
1. You will learn a whole heck of a lot hanging out with other like minded professionals in your business. Do not underestimate this! You might start forum marketing because you want lots of valuable backlings to your website in the forum signature. However once you start posting and responding you will find out how much you will learn! This is one of the best schools out there and it is free!
2. You will receive valuable backlinks and traffic to your website. Understand first that advertising is not permitted on forums. The only place that you are allowed to advertise is in your signature file. You must make relevant comments and really be a part of the discussion. Do not join a forum and just say “great post” or “good idea.” This is considered forum spam. Really read the content and become a part of the forum community. That being said, you are allowed a link back to your website in the signature file.
Forums are generally considered authority sites and get indexed very rapidly in the search engines according to the keywords in the posts. These posts are generally permanent or long term relevant (if you follow the advice above) links back to your website from high traffic authority websites in your niche.
Forums are busy places. Members will also see you signature file and click on your link as well if it interests them. Since I only suggest joining forums which are related to your niche this is a high probability.
3. If you really make quality posts over a long term YOU will become an authority on your niche. This gives you more credibility in your market.
4. Forum marketing is fun!! If you are passionate about your subject you can really get caught up in the fun of interacting and sharing ideas with your peers. Be careful it is addictive!
Here is a list of internet marketing, webmaster type forums which allow you to have a signature file in your posts. I eliminated all of the forums which do not allow you to have signatures. I believe that if you are willing to take the time to contribute intelligent relevant content to a forum the least you should get is a link back to your site. I know many owners do not want any type of advertising at all in their forum except their own paid ads. I choose not to spend my time on these forums.
Here is a hint for those who promote just affiliate programs. Many forums do not allow affiliate links in the signatures. The answer to this is to simply to your own domain, some cheap hosting and make a simple webpage with your favorite programs on it. You can then make the signature link to your own domain rather than the affiliate link.
If you are an affiliate and you do not have your own domain, website and you are not building your own mailing list with an autoresponder program and I not believe you can be successful.
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For the rest of you here is a list of quality internet marketing forums which will allow you to add you signature file. Some require you to make 5-20 posts first before you signature appears. No problem just keep posting. It is worth it. I have joined and posted to every one of the forums below. See you there!
The Free Ad Forum– This site is divided into two separate sites really. One is a classified ad site where you can put your free ads. The other is an internet marketing, social media marketing, seo and web hosting forum. You are allowed to put your signature in your signature file but you are not allowed to advertise directly in the discussion forum posts. It is a friendly and responsive forum.
The Warrior Forum– This is one of the most popular and best straight up no nonesene internet marketing forums out there. Highly recommended!!
Digital Point Forum– This is one of the busiest websites on the internet. I mean there are less than 400 websites anywhere that get more traffic than Digital Point. Signatures and live links within posts are not available to users until they have been a member at least 7 days, have positive (green) reputation and have at least 10 posts. Well worth becoming a member in good standing of this forum.
Im4newbies Forum– Friendly internet marketing forum with over 50,000 members. You can see by the title that it caters to newbies. However, you will find many experienced pros here as well.
V7n Forum– This quality forum began back in 2001 with the philosophy of creating a community where internet marketers could freely communicate. In March of 2004 they began work on a website that could host the community and serve all of its needs – from search engine optimization and Internet marketing, to graphic design, coding, usability and more.
Ewealth Forum– An internet marketing forum with a focus on affiliate marketing.
Clickbank Success Forum– A forum which focuses on the popular affiliate marketing platform, Clickbank. Over 11,000 users.
Dream Team Money Forum– Internet Marketing, Webmaster, Affiliate Marketing Forum, HYIP, Network Marketing, GPT, Other Convention Money Making community Discussion. Over 50,000 members. Very active forum with many categories of discussion.
Internet Marketing Forums– Active internet marketing forum with over 20,000 members.
Sitepoint Forum– Well run forum which deals with web hosting, programming issues, web design and also has an internet marketing section. This forum is geared more towards expert marketers, webmasters and programmers.
Web Pro World– This engaged professional forum coners topics from internet marketing to web design. programming and SEO. Over 90,000 members. This is a very live forum with lots of activity.WebProWorld unites the iEntry family of newsletters for eBusiness, technology, and Web professionals in a series of interactive forums. These forums are designed to allow iEntry’s 4 million subscribers to connect with each other and share information beyond the limits of newsletters.
Webmaster World Forum– WebmasterWorld members discuss the process of doing business on the internet. Running a website takes a great deal of knowledge. The design, coding, maintenance, promotion, marketing, and management of a website is almost an impossible task for one person alone without extensive training. This is a forum for the members to share and gain knowledge in operating and promoting a website.
Submit Express Forum– Submit Express is one of the top SEO companies out there. They know what they are doing because they are number 1 for many of their keywords and have been so for years. Their forum is a somewhat loosely moderated but fair SEO and internet marketing forum.
Promo Junkie Forum– Promo Junkie started off as a profitable webmaster forum where both successful and newbie site owners could discuss all the different aspects of increasing website traffic and profit. They are expanding the site to offer more information and products that will hopefully help expand webmaster knowledge and help them succeed in all their online ventures.
Work At Home Forum– Work at Home Forum was created with the intention of developing a community of those work from home so members can learn and share their experiences. Every effort is made to moderate the forum to keep the information genuine and credible.
Work From Home Board– This community provides resources and tips on various work at home programs, freelance jobs and opportunities, earning money online and alerts you of work at home scams. If you are a stay-at-home mom, student, or anybody who wants to earn extra income while at home, our community can provide you with guidance. 11,000 + members. Moderately busy.
Ad Blake Forum– Anthony Blake Online Entrepreneurial Success Forum focuses exclusively on internet marketing. Unlike some of the larger forums which just have marketing sections. This entire forum is about marketing. About 2800 members.
Webmaster Talk Forum– Primarily a webmaster forum focusing on web design, coding, and SEO. They do have affiliate marketing and monetization sections. Over 90,000 members. Very clean looking professional forum.
Web Talk Forum– A webmaster forum with an SEO and marketing section. This forum has a twist though! WebTalkForums.com has enabled revenue sharing via Google AdSense. Relevant ads are displayed on WebTalkForums.com’s pages via Google AdSense, which pays on both a CPC and CPM basis (cost-per-click and cost-per-one-thousand impressions). As a way to show their appreciation for WebTalkForums.com’s members, they share the forums AdSense revenue with you. I think this is very generous. You are providing quality content and they share the revenue. This contrasts quite a bit against forums which will not even let you have a signature. I have not listed those forums here.
Webmaster Ground Forum– Webmaster Forum ,Web Design, Coding, SEO, Advertising & Hosting. About 2700 members.
Abest Web – This forum focuses almost entirely on affiliate marketing. They also discuss international affiliate progams and have discussion in different languages.
Associate Program Forum– A friendly affiliate marketing forum run by someone who walks the talk. Here is what the Allan Gardyne has to say about his forum: “I don’t just write about affiliate programs. I work at this stuff. For more than 10 years, nearly all our revenue came from affiliate commissions.”
Affiliates4U Forum– An affiliate marketing forum from a British perspective. They even include sections on promoting gaming affiliate programs. Also included are sections on European and Asian affiliate marketing.
Self Starters Weekly Forum– Sharp well run internet marketing forum run by well known marketer Lynn Terry. Over 10,000 members.
