Friday 12th February, 2010
Finding an audience through forums is an excellent way to get people to your site, and one which I’ve been using for a dozen years or so — probably closer to 15 years I would say. With this in mind you should take care not to spam or push your site/products too hard or you’ll quickly find yourself being banned from those forums.
In today’s video, Jeremy walks Jamie through a crash course in forums — how to find them, how to sign up for them, how to edit your profile and how to post to them. It isn’t rocket science by any stretch of the imagination, but it is aimed squarely at internet noobies after all.
As I stated earlier, going to forums is something I’ve been doing for about 15 years now, so I would say I’m well versed in this sort of thing. Jeremy suggests to “personalise” your profile — which I do on some forums — but mostly I prefer to use an alias so that I can keep a bit of distance from other people in the forum. Sometimes I just think a forum post looks more authentic if it’s coming from a person who “seemingly” is not connected to the site they are pushing. Not that I push hard at all. It’s purely subjective though, and each person/marketer has their own views on the subject. Their own approach.
I can say that I’ve had great results from forums however, and that they’ll always be a part of my arsenal in getting people to my websites.
Until tomorrow…

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