Project Traffic! for Your Niche Site - How to Generate Maximum Exposure for Forum Participation Part 3
In this part of Project Traffic! (not an affiliate program) we share the advanced tips, skills and techniques to maximize your exposure in forum participation and marketing. After all, our focus for forum participation is with the ultimate objective to generate traffic to our websites.
Signatures - URLs & Anchor Text Links
For Thread forums, this is a URL which you are allowed to place after your message. You might have mentioned a certain keyword in your explanation but this is not the only area you could mention the keyword. You could include a short phrase including the keyword or synonym keyword or synonyms phrase of the keyword to lead as part of the link within you end-off signature.
This simply means that you could have different variations to ensure that your anchor text your wish to draw attention to is maximally leveraged. When the search engines becomes active crawling that niche forum the next time round, your keywords in that link using anchor text will surely serve you well.
Time Your Posting
If you want to get maximum exposure for your posting you should consider timed postings to generate potentially greater traffic. Although there is no specified timing periods which indicate higher traffic to sites, there are certain time periods which I personally noticed have generated higher traffic to my sites.
Posts timing for physical shopping goods niche sites could be done anytime within the week and you might start to find increasing traffic in the weekends. If your niche sites sells informational products, you probably find more traffic coming your way midweek, Tuesdays through Thursdays. Having said that, you might wish to conduct your own little experiments to find out what works best for you and share the results with us by commenting at my site.
Leverage from The Structure of Your Niche Forums
In active threaded type forums, posts tend to move fast, and your post could quickly slip down and out of sight from page 1 of the thread. For such busy forums, I suggest that you log on about twice a day to participate and ensure that you respond on your relevant topics and comments as soon as possible. This is to ensure that you stay at the top of your topics as well as top of mind of your fellow forumers.
Follow the Leader
Most often than not, when there are active participation from the forum owner or a famous moderator in a niche forum, you can expect high activity. This is especially so whenever the forum owner or famous moderator opens new threads and you will naturally see much higher following.
This is especially evident when a famous or active forum coaching master starts a forum style coaching program online. Look out for these threads and forums, as well as the very active members, moderators or forum owners. Then follow them in your posting activities.
Be Proactive, That ebook Giveaway Almost Always Works
Regardless of how proactive you are in wanting to generate traffic from forums, you need to bid by your time, pend that opportunity for the appropriate posting of fellow members who need your product or services, then you start your posting baits.
There are ways to do your posting baits. Create an ebook on your product or service, give it away free at your niche forums, positioning it as a free service or information for your fellow members. In actuality, you are giving it away at the opportune time when some is in need of your service. That is the perfect posting bait. And that is also the perfectly legitimate resource to give away at forums. To this, you are not breaking any rules.
Build Relationship before you make that Announcement Post
Some forums have special segments for announcements. Be it a special segment or you intend to announce your latest brainchild product to the world, remember to build your relationship with your niche forum fellow members.
Readers warm up to you better after knowing you, what you stand for, what you can offer to help resolve their problems, and more importantly, solved their problems after having used your product or service. Understand that they are your best testimonials and word of mouth could really turn viral so make sure that you have achieved bonding with the forumers.
Stay tuned for the next part of Project Traffic! Meantime, do drop by the Traffic Generation Category for more traffic generation articles.
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