Build Traffic

Build Traffic Via Forum Posting:

You can drive hundreds of targeted visitors to your website by participating in forums frequented by members interested in your niche.

In order to get targeted traffic from forums you need to participate in forums that let you include a link to your website in their forum signature line. For example, the DNXpert Domain Forum allows you to place up to 3 links in your signature.

You will find that internet marketing savvy forums like DigitalPoint have threads with huge numbers of signature links which equate to a lot of competition. On the other hand, numerous other niches have far less members that own a website. This equates to a far greater chance of getting traffic with some well placed signature links.

In order to really utilize forums for driving traffic to your website, you have to participate regularly, writing at least 1 or 2 posts a day (or more if you want quicker results). By the way, an additional plus to posting links in your forum signature is that search engines get to see your link associated with your keywords more often which is always a good thing.

Here are a couple of factors to consider when choosing a forum to promote in:

Forum Size: When it comes to forum membership size you will find that bigger is not always better. Sometimes its better to be a big fish in a little pond although you should be careful with smaller forums as smaller forums are often more intimate and harder to earn recognition in.

Forum Traffic: Just as with forum size, forum traffic should be considered based on its quality rather then quantity. There is no point further contributing to a spam-fest.

Active Member Participation: Be careful not to waste your time in a dead forum. Carefully examine the latest posts checking their date as well as volume to determine whether your time there will be well spent.

Matching Niche: Obviously, the forum you join needs to be based in or around the same niche you are blogging about. There is very little point in promoting a football blog in a beading or knitting forum community.

It is very important you do not try to game forums by joining and posting your link inappropriately.
Forums are communities of like minded people with similar interests. You will find that long term forum members are very protective of their community and view new members suspiciously mainly as a result of marketers promoting their links over-zealously.

You will achieve the best results from driving traffic via forums by actively participating with an aim to productively contribute to conversations while keeping your website link in your signature.

Increase Website Traffic By Submitting Articles:

Even though it’s been said a lot over the years, some people still haven’t fully grasped what can be achieved with quality articles submitted to online article directories.

An informative article distributed to the most influential spots on the web will get your website a lot of attention and pull visitors from search engines for a long time in the future.

Ok, now, you might say that article writing takes time and effort and that article traffic building takes time to show results.

Yes, both those statements are 100% correct. Having said that, most true traffic building efforts take time to take off, but if you play your cards right a traffic trickle can turn into a raging torrent. Some of my websites constantly get traffic from articles that I have written and submitted as far back as 2 years ago.

Your articles should focus on a topic that emphasizes your website’s target keywords. Your articles should be informative, interesting and legible with a catchy title. You should aim to get your article content search engine optimized. If you are not good at writing you can always hire a writer to do the hard work for you.

How Do You Utilize Articles For Traffic Building Purposes?

It is simple. Once your article is written you submit it to as many article directories as you can find. You place well thought out inbound links linking to your website within the article and within the author box at the article directory where you submitted your article.

Inbound links also serve to strengthen the association of your website with your targeted keywords. Placing links within articles that are focused on the same keywords as your website is a perfect way to increase your website’s search engine rankings.

By far the most popular article submission directory is EzineArticles.com. If your articles are good enough, they will be picked up and distributed across the web by various websites looking for quality content.