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Saturday, September 16, 2006
How To Promote A New Forum
How To Promote A New Forum
By Anna-Marie Stewart
Forums can be very good at generating traffic to your main site. You get focused content written for you and if it's your own forum you can run offers etc to your "list" of members. Of course, you need to get visitors to your forum, just as you need to get visitors to any other site you have. So how do you promote a forum to gain members?
Do a search on google for free advertising forums. A lot of them have places where you can announce your new forum. Do another search on google for 'forum submit url' or 'announce forum' that should also bring up places where you can tell people about your forum.
Add your forum to your sigfile in all your outgoing mails. Also in your sigfile in other forums.
Here are a few places you can check out for submitting your forum
http://www.forumregistry.com/registry/submit.php
http://www.gandalfdir.com/
http://www.ipbdirectory.com/
http://www.forumwebdirectory.com/
http://www.forumpromotion.co.uk/
Populating your forum with posts will help it get picked up in the search engines, and give it some way of drawing people in...
Just google "paid forum post" or "forum posting service" and a bunch of companies should come up.
There are some reviews on various paid posting services here:
http://www.paidpostingreviews.com/
Just a few ideas that I've just started using myself for my own new forum. It does work, I've had 87 members join mine in less than 2 months. Not a huge growth, but better than a kick in the teeth
I also found this the other night. It seems to be chock-full of info on creating and managing forums, and deserves looking into: http://www.theadminzone.com/index.php
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Did you find this helpful? please leave a comment. Thanks!
Anna
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p.s. Have you visited my Real Life Marketers Get-Together forum and posted your free ad yet?
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By Anna-Marie Stewart
Forums can be very good at generating traffic to your main site. You get focused content written for you and if it's your own forum you can run offers etc to your "list" of members. Of course, you need to get visitors to your forum, just as you need to get visitors to any other site you have. So how do you promote a forum to gain members?
Do a search on google for free advertising forums. A lot of them have places where you can announce your new forum. Do another search on google for 'forum submit url' or 'announce forum' that should also bring up places where you can tell people about your forum.
Add your forum to your sigfile in all your outgoing mails. Also in your sigfile in other forums.
Here are a few places you can check out for submitting your forum
http://www.forumregistry.com/registry/submit.php
http://www.gandalfdir.com/
http://www.ipbdirectory.com/
http://www.forumwebdirectory.com/
http://www.forumpromotion.co.uk/
Populating your forum with posts will help it get picked up in the search engines, and give it some way of drawing people in...
Just google "paid forum post" or "forum posting service" and a bunch of companies should come up.
There are some reviews on various paid posting services here:
http://www.paidpostingreviews.com/
Just a few ideas that I've just started using myself for my own new forum. It does work, I've had 87 members join mine in less than 2 months. Not a huge growth, but better than a kick in the teeth
I also found this the other night. It seems to be chock-full of info on creating and managing forums, and deserves looking into: http://www.theadminzone.com/index.php
===============Resource Box===========
Starting Your Own Business Can be Scary! Don't go it alone.
Let "Not Just Another Ezine" guide you. You'll get priceless
hints, tips and info to save you time, money and your sanity!
Our goal is to help YOU avoid getting burnt with online marketing.
Subscribe to NJAE today: http://annamarketing.com
=============================================
This article is available for reprint in your opt-in ezine,
web site or ebook. You MUST agree not to make any changes
to the article and the RESOURCE BOX MUST be included.
(c) 2006 Anna-Marie Stewart. All Rights Reserved
Did you find this helpful? please leave a comment. Thanks!
Anna
http://annamarketing.com
p.s. Have you visited my Real Life Marketers Get-Together forum and posted your free ad yet?
marketing tips marketing online business information online marketing internet marketing
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