Use Forums to Promote your Blog

Use Forums to Promote Your Blog

 

Having a blog is almost essential. It let’s you promote your products and services and channels a lot of attention to your business. You can promote your products and work, whether as a painter, artist, photographer, salesman or writer.

Maybe the attention generated from your blog even gets you a job related to the things that you love.

Other uses for blogs are that you can freely express yourself and keep your relatives and friends updated on the goings on in your life. Just like social media it can be great if you live far away from them and can´t communicate with your relatives and friends that often.

 

However like I said, a blog can be a great and easy way for you  to earn money, over and above mere expression, self-promotion and affiliate programs.

 

Moreover the more visitors you have, the greater the chance that your ads get clicked and that you earn comissions.

 

Hence you will need to drive more and more people to your blog. Not just to earn money but also to get attention. After all, if your blog is interesting enough, you may get a lot of people backlinking to you and sharing your content. A great way to promote your blog is through posting on forums.

 

If you are interested in posting on forums – you should – and spreading your word, and if you want to get your blog noticed, then you will be interested in my following tips.

A word of advice is that these are only a few tips to help you on your way to massive blog attention, and you need to learn on your own along the way and experience your own lessons.

 

 

 

Tips for Promoting your Blog

 

Tip #1: Mainly post in forums that you actually are interested in!

 

Believe it or not, your level of expertise and interest in a topic shine through your posts. If people take notice that you are interested in the forum topic, you may get more attention than people just reading your forum post. They will follow the link in your signature to find out more about you

 

Tip #2: Post in forums whose topics are related to your blogging topic!

 

This can be critical when dealing with die-hard fans of a certain field because posting off-topic posts will be distracting. Not only that but you will soon find yourself banned from those forums.

 

 

Tip #3: Be “dignified” enough to spell right!

 

Don´t rush your posts. Shortcuts have the power to make any texts almost unreadable and very annoying. If you make the effort to write your blog, make an effort to write well on forums as well. Otherwise you will find it harder to invite people to read and participate in your blog. Why in 3 devils name would they read your blog when they can’t even understand what you are posting on the forum? Don´t write to impress the readers with your intelligence. Too many books and articles are written this way. Don´t be a show off.

 

Tip #4: Offer help and advice to forum members!

 

When they ask for it and need it be there to answer them. Remember that people don´t care about what you have to say and sell until they realize that you care about them first.

 

Tip #5: Optimize your blog first!

 

Before you focus on writing forum posts, focus on your own blog. It makes no sense to spend hours on forums, posting random things and promoting your blog, if your blog is empty.

 

First make sure that you offer quality advice in your blog that people are interested in reading and then you can focus on promoting it

 

Tip #6: Aim for the biggest forums!

 

This is an obvious but overlooked tip. Don´t spend countless hours building authorship in forums with less than at least 5,000 members.

 

Tip #7: Include your blog link in your signature!

 

Avoid inserting your link into your posts. You will come across as a spammer who is only trying to promote his site.

 

Though there is an exception. If you already are well-known in forums and have the reputation of offering good advice, you can also embed your blog link in your replies.

 

Tip #8 Make friends with senior forum members!

 

If they have a lot of authority go ahead and PM them (write them a private message). Tell them your views, ask them to participate in your discussions etc. Befriending them opens a lot of doors. You can even ask them to write a review of your blog on the forum.

 

Tip #9: Start controversial topics!

If you get a lot of people to respond and participate in your own started threads, guess what, you will get much more eyes that see and ultimately click your link.

 

Tip #10: Don´t be afraid to spam,

if you don´t care about a forum too much. I really recommend this only if you are looking for some fast clicks. This is no long time solution and I focus on why spamming is bad in this article (coming soon).

 

Tip #11: Start necroing!

Dig out old threads with a lot of responses and reply to them. Everyone who is subscribed to these threads will be notified of your reply and is likely to view your post.

 

Tip #12: Write brief but informative answers!

 

Many people, me included, simply are too lazy to read a monster paragraph. Keep it short and simple.

 

Tip #13: Stay tuned!

 

If you open a thread or post a good reply, subscribe to the threads and do a follow-up. Answer any new questions or suggestions. This is a great way to constantly use forums to promote your blog!

 

Tip #14: Create a fancy profile!

 

Add a picture if possible. Fill out information like hometown, interests etc. This will make you look more humane.

 

Tip #15: Fit in!

 

Adapt to the forum style line. Look at senior members. How does their profile look? How did they design their signature? How long are their answers? Copy them as good as you can to fit in.

 

 

 

Now you know how to use forums to promote your blog. Drive traffic to your blog by guest posting on forums now!

Use Forums to Promote your Blog