Using Online Forums For Backlinks

Forums are another fantastic way to get one-way links to your site and targetted traffic. Online forums are websites where people go to discuss certain topics. There are thousands of these virtual communities on the net.

There are 3 basic types of forum visitors:

1. People looking for advice/information/suggestions, etc.

2. People providing information for others

3. People that just read but don’t take part in the dialogue (aka lurking)

Forums are a great place to: get information, do market research, establish yourself as an expert, and of course receive links and traffic to your site. We get lots of clients for Affordable Seo this way.

While you are not allowed to advertise blatantly in the forums, many will let you put a small advertisement and link to your website in the ’sig file’.

In some forums you are ok to use html so you can create text-links, in others you can only have your url. Sometimes you can’t have either in your signature so you’ll have to check at each forum?

Visit forums that are relevant to your website and read some of the posts, notice the ‘netiquette’ and see if others are linking to their website in the sig file. Get an idea of what’s acceptable by seeing what the others are using in the sig files. (look at others that have a lot of posts) Get involved in the conversation and contribute valuable info – the more people like and respect you, the more often they will come to your site. This is a
incredible way to get more sales as you can focus on people who are interested in your product/service. Visit our website on Affordable Search Engine Optimization to find out more about growing your rankings.