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Traffic Building on 07 10th, 2008 |
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Forum traffic is good. Very good. But, I find many bloggers becoming too self centered in forums and can’t see any benefits beyond getting traffic for their blogs. And yeah, backlinks of course.
I find forums as the most powerful means of social networking. Everyone is familiar with the concept so I don’t need to go ahead and tell you the ABC’s of it right? The bottom line is that it lets you engage in fruitful conversations with other bloggers while getting some quality traffic and a ton of backlinks to your blog. But, do the benefits stop there? How can you get the most out of your time committed to forums?
- Genuinely be interested in helping others. It’s all about social networking and people will “dig you” if you “dig for them”.
- Quote the resources from your blogs with a link when it’s relevant. But don’t do this all the time, since it might set an alarm off at the forums moderators’ end.
- Offer to willingly help resolve other blogger’s issues directly via IM or e-mail. I usually mention my IM when another blogger goes through a problem I can do something about. This had done me good in finding loyal readers.
- Most blogs have a Introduce Yourself section. Check that section often and be sure to comment on their blogs. Make an impression on the newbies.
- Try to be engaged in newer discussions. Blogs have a section called ‘New Posts’, which will give you a chance to find all the new posts at one place. This will expose you to more forum browsers.
- Be consistent in your forum participation. People who hang on more tightly tend to harness better results than the people who tend to log on 1 day per week and post to 50 threads.
- Make sure that your signature makes sense. Don’t just put “Tech Blog”, when you can put “Tech Blog – Latest Gadgets, Reviews and Tech News”. It’ll help your CTR, and give you more power in the terms of SEO.
- Find other active bloggers in the forum and put their good articles under discussion. This will do you wonders in making connections with good bloggers out there.
- Brand Yourself! Brand your avater, language and signature. This will help you get noticed and stand-out.
If you’re looking forward to connect to a quality forum for bloggers, I highly recommend Bloggeries. I also hang out at DigitalPoint, but it’s more of a hang out place for Webmaster rather than Bloggers.
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Forums are a really good way of improving backlinks and driving traffic to your blog, Good post.
Being active in a forum and adding your site/blog url is only effective to get backlink, but speaking about traffic and other benefits like you said, well I doubt it as I have used this technique for years and see no significant numbers of traffic from any forum
“Make sure that your signature makes sense. Don’t just put “Tech Blog””
LoL.. I put “My Techie Blog” <- I guess I have to change this
Participating in Forums is still very effective. After the born of many online social networks spreading like hotcakes in the web, forums are still there. Many internet users are still used to it.
Good advice. Very helpful.
I’ve noticed that the more help you bring to the member’s of the forums the more authority you build and this influences especially newbies making them visit your blog / website frequently hungry for new information. Forums are a great place to hang out if you want to get noticed.
Nice article. I’ll follow your tips. Hopefully it’ll be useful to improve my blog. Thanks
I used to join forum sites but I was too lazy. But after reading your post, I think I’ll be more patient participating in forums – for traffic and backlinks. Thanks…
I love joining different forums..
and it really helps me a lot..
I put all of my blog (Mostly only able to get 3-4 blog in my signature . weheh so every I posting I get backlink. Its so fun. I have 1 forum that my post more than 10000 ^^
Thanks for the tips! They’re very useful..all I have to do is apply them. There are still a lot of things I need to know in making a blog and one thing that I have learned and I guess everyone will agree is to have lots of patience. I am only in my 2nd month but so far for a man with little patience I am still ok…Looks like I am enjoying what I’m doing. Have a great day everyone!
Patience is the key Ed. Good luck!
Hi, I found this to be a very thoughtful, genuine, and interesting post on building blog traffic. Looks like you have done everything right with this blog from the excellent banner graphics, domain name, branding, and even the free gift with subscription. Even your Alexa traffic is sub 70k… I have a wordpress dot com blog with a PR of 4… Where can I go to find someone to create, set up all widgets and configure all of the technical stuff, so that I can just write and accept/decline custom adverts? Do you know of any companies that will do all the necessary set up including custom banners?
Thanks Greg! I just sent you a response by e-mail for that.
I have just created a christian website where you can download christian songs. how can the site be well-known?
I must say that you provide genuine, quality information. Thanks for this!
BTW, dpn’t you think your blog needs a better wordpress template?
Really interesting blog. I found some useful information that I forgot or missed to mention in my blog.
Thanks…
These tips are simply awesome i had followed them and my blog traffic has increased dramatically thanks for sharing.
I just wanted to say Hi because this is the first time I am ever posting on a forum. I do not know if this is allowed or not to post here, but I hope I won’t be banned from me. So be happy for me that I finally achieved posting on a forum after many years of neglect!