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Forum & Message Board Marketing

Forum & Message Board Marketing

Webmasters need to use every marketing method that they can take advantage of and without using all the methods out there you’ll fall behind your competition quickly. There are plenty of marketing techniques out there that you need to use, and in this article we’re going to talk about the power of forum and message board marketing. You’ve might of already used these techniques in your marketing arsenal and if you have then that’s great, but if you haven’t or you rarely use this technique then you should consider using it more.

There is always at least one forum on every topic and many topics have hundreds of different forums available to them. You should gather a list of the forums in your niche and then join them all. You will need to make some posts on them all and get active in the community. On the forums you’ll be able to add a signature line which will appear at the end of all of your posts. You can use this line to add your website link so that you can get direct clicks and also backlinks. Forum backlinks can build quickly and add a lot of value to your current links. Some forums will require that you make a certain amount of posts before your signature line appears, don’t worry about this though and just patiently wait until you reach the amount of posts. Don’t go spam the boards as you’ll likely be banned for doing so.

For message board marketing you may have to add your link at the end of each of your posts, so make sure that you do so if it is required. There is no point helping out others on message boards unless you’re getting the backlink so be sure that you do in fact get a link for each post. Some popular message boards are the Yahoo message boards which covers basically every niche that you could imagine. You simply help people answer their questions and then you post your link under your answer. This will help you get traffic as these message boards are always busy and get great search engine rankings.

A lot of forums and message boards don’t allow do-follow backlinks which means your links won’t count in the search engines. You should try finding some that are do-follow so that you do in fact gain some backlinks from your hard work, but for popular boards with lots of traffic it isn’t so important. For instance the Yahoo message boards will allow you to post a link but it isn’t do-follow. I still recommend using this board though because it’s one of the busiest and on the internet and can bring in great targeted traffic for the lifetime of your website.

Don’t spam the boards or forums though as you’ll get banned and it will also look unnatural to the search engines if you get a couple hundred links one day and none the next. You should aim for the same amount of posts everyday and split them between the forums and boards you use. This way you’ll be able to not look suspicious to the search engines and they won’t penalize you for unnatural link building which trust me happens and isn’t pretty for that website owner.

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How to Obtain Steady Blog Traffic

How to Obtain Steady Blog Traffic

Blogging is simple but getting steady traffic to your blog can be one of the hardest things you need to do and without traffic then there isn’t much point in even blogging because noone is seeing what you’re writing. If you want to obtain steady traffic then how hard you work the first couple months will determine everything, and basically if you work hard and give your blog time to establish itself then it will. It takes a little while before you’ll begin getting search engine rankings and this is what you’re aiming for as search engine traffic is by far the steadiest stream you’ll find. To rank in the search engines though you’ll need lots of links pointing to your blog and this can be time consuming. One thing that you should do is make sure you try spreading out the links you build by doing different marketing techniques.

In the beginning you do lots of social bookmarking for your blog and also as many Ezine submissions that you possibly can submit. These submissions will help you out tremendously with getting your blog indexed and into the search engine rankings. Usually you’ll need a solid few months before ranking steadily on the first page for any main keywords but longtail keywords can be obtained weeks after starting your blog.

The key is to build constant and natural links to your blog, meaning you shouldn’t submit to 100 directories one day and then none the rest of the week. Instead try submitting to 15 directories daily and it will seem like a lot more natural progression in the eyes of Google.

Social bookmarking will help to get your site indexed also and this also helps bring traffic to your blog. If you post daily and submit it to social bookmarking sites then you’ll have some traffic from there everyday but it won’t be that targeted or profitable of traffic.

The profitable traffic is the search engine traffic and once that starts coming into your blog in full effect then you’ll stand a lot better chance of having good steady profitable traffic on your blog. You need to ensure you offer your visitors valuable content though or else you won’t stand much of a chance when it comes to keeping your readers on your blog.

Return visitors are what keeps blogs alive and running and to have return visitors come to your blog you need to offer information that they are looking for. To do this you need to research your niche and then write content that is valuable to the people reading it. If you have a sports blog don’t write about space travel on it as most likely nobody there is interested in that topic. Instead serve up the hottest sports highlights from around the world everyday and you’ll soon see lots of traffic coming into your blog. The key is knowing your niche and then capitalizing on the information learned.

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How Bloggers Could Make Thousands A Month

How Bloggers Could Make Thousands A Month

There are a ton methods that bloggers can use to make money on there blog but some are less known then others and often bloggers don’t use some of the most profitable and effective methods of monetization. A lot of bloggers use affiliate networks, me included but the fact is there is also another method to make more money. If you’re wondering what that method is, it’s simply to either make your own products or to buy products with master resale rights or private label rights. Make sure they come with the rights listed above so that you have the complete documentation to be able to sell the products or else you could run into legal troubles for illegally selling a product you’re not aloud to. Believe me when I tell you this it’s definitely something you don’t want to get into because it’s a battle you’ll lose nine times out of time and many product owners will go through the troubles of suing you.

Once you buy some products with master resale rights you can then create a review for it and make a new page on your blog selling the product. You now will be able to retain 100% of the money that you sell the product for instead of only receiving a commission like you do from affiliates. This is a method often overlooked by your average webmaster and it’s why lots of A list bloggers are making such good money. If you notice most of the products they promote are either their own products or products they retain full profit from because of owning rights to sell it. There is still money in affiliate networks and I don’t recommend selling your own products until you’ve got an established blog, but once you do and you have your marketing techniques down to a science then promoting your own products is amazingly beneficial.

There are also benefits of selling your own product or a product with master resale rights over selling affiliate products. The main benefit would obviously be that you keep all the profit and you don’t give any of it to anyone. Apart from that though there are still so other benefits like the fact you can set whatever price you choose for the products and also how you promote them. Many affiliate products have huge sets of terms and conditions which usually save their butt, when you sell your own product then you make the rules of how everything goes and you simply do as you please.

Selling your own products or products you’ve bought rights to is definitely the best way to earn a full-time income on the internet. One product can make sales for years down the road without doing anything except a bit of promotion in the early stages. There are lots of products on the internet that you can buy rights to as well you just need to make sure that you buy the right products that will sell. There is no point in buying products that are ten years old because the information will be outdated and you’ll have trouble making any sales.

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