Forums are great places to spam promote your blog. Take Digital Point, for example. Because the majority of the people there are internet marketing newbies hoping to find someone that will take them by the hand and lead them to online salvation, they’re eager to click any link promising “instant SEO success” and “millions of visitors to your website on under 2.3 seconds.” It doesn’t matter if these claims are true or not – I’m actually pretty sure the people clicking on them know that these are all false claims but they like to pretend. Newsflash (are people still allowed to say this?): instant solutions like that don’t exist.
But lets get off of this tangent and onto forum marketing.
STEP ONE: BUILD TRUST
Lull other forum users into thinking you’re actually a helpful member by posting informative replies to their questions. If you start to promote immediately, you’ll probably get either banned or (even worse) negative reputation
STEP TWO: THE PROMOTION BEGINS
Begin citing your blog as a source for your replies. For example, every time someone asks for a good advertising network I mention Adsdaq (I honestly believe it’s awesome) and inconspiciously include a link to my Adsdaq review. Just like that. Since forum threads can rank highly in search engines, you’ll get indirect organic traffic.
STEP THREE: CREATE A THREAD
Post a discussion on the forum about the topic of one of your recent posts (for example, here’s one I made). Add a link to your post telling users that they’ll get more info there. Since you’re technically not spamming your site, the discussion won’t be deleted. Aren’t loopholes fun?
Just rinse and repeat to get some nice traffic to your blog.
SOME MORE TIPS
- People love controversial topics. Tell people you hate Google and love Answer (you monster!) or that you think content isn’t king.
- Add a link to your blog in your signature in big red font. Telling people it cures cancer is optional.
- Talk about your successes. People will always congratulate you, even if it’s only earning your first dollar. I’m not kidding – it’s kind of sad.
Now go out there and spam some forums promote your blog!
By Zach Katkin on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Although you exaggerate, the ideas in this post are particularly powerful. I look forward to more.
By Max Miroff on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
@Zach: Exaggerate is what I do
By paragon on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
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By Rhys @ Retro Garden on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
“Talk about your successes. People will always congratulate you, even if it’s only earning your first dollar. I’m not kidding – it’s kind of sad.”
That’s so true! It’s a terrible problem with Digital Point, the amount of threads about “I’ve made my first dollar/million/etc.”. Great traffic driver though.
Don’t try selling things also, you’ll get 100 people asking for a review copy.
By Chauncy on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
So true. I installed Google Analytics on my month-old a few days ago, and soon after posting just one article from my blog, I was up to about 100 uniques a day just from Digital Point.
By Ray on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for explaining how that works. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do such a thing but I guess I need more content before I attempt it.
Thanks!
By failureblogger on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
That is another bad statement about digital point.
Are you saying that forum marketing isn’t good at all?
But what do you think about wickedfire?
Thanks for adding my blog to your stumbleupon favorites page.
By failureblogger on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
I meant to say bad recommendation
By Max Miroff on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Forum marketing is great. I’ve gotten at least 600 hits from DP so far.
Where did I say I thought it was bad?
By Jack Payne on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Forum marketing works–to a limited extent. But, it’s hard to believe Digital Point is any kind of God-send. Too many (purely) SEOs. Little vision beyond the technical.
By Link Building Bible on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
DP is the major source of my traffic… I have a niche geared towards webmasters, so that’s been doing awesome for me. I have made some great connections with other webmasters (such as yourself)
By Lee on Apr 12, 2008 | Reply
Excellent post and blog overall, you are one of the few blogs that has made it to my coveted favorites lol
By Futon-Matt on Apr 13, 2008 | Reply
This post has some great ideas, now I need to find a furniture forum.
By RefinancingTips on May 2, 2008 | Reply
Great read. I think I’ll subscribe to this as it has some good info! Thanks. I do apppreciate the blog
By rob force on Jul 7, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the help i needed it
By CashCrate on Aug 11, 2008 | Reply
Funny delivery… nice tips. I have to work on my controversy tactics lol.
By Tom on Aug 13, 2008 | Reply
Definitely good tips. It can also be good to target other forums in your niche.
By ed on Aug 15, 2008 | Reply
Thanks. I’m a member of DP and I have picjked up some excellent affiliates for my affiliate program there.
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By Watch Repairs on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply
Another great post I also use digital point, I often find many topics about page rank. But if you seatch hard enough you can find great info on gerneral SEO
By Josef Malkovitz on Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
There are better ways
By Will on Oct 29, 2008 | Reply
Lol. Say that “content isnt king”. That will start a big discussion
By Maxstepper on Dec 3, 2008 | Reply
Add to my Bookmarks )
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By Semi trucks on Jan 1, 2009 | Reply
Wow….That is amazing stuff”"”I needed it so thanks.
By Volvo trucks on Feb 16, 2009 | Reply
There are many ways to make money online with Digital Point. If you’re a really good graphic designer, you can post a thread letting users know that you can design things like logos and banners.
By International trucks on Feb 16, 2009 | Reply
Dp is very useful forum for seo, remember, don’t get overwhelmed with thinking that you will never be a reputable member or that you will never be able to get hundreds of post. I was the same when first starting out, but when I discovered that Digital Point was a gold mine, I had to keep up my reputation and iTraders. Just follow those simple tips and you can be on your way to making money from a great community.