How To Start Making Money With Online Forums

By Mike Anson

Many people wish to learn, if they can actually start making money with online forums and are surprised when they learn just how easy it is. Forums are online communities, where like-minded people hang out with each other and discuss about topics, and at times help solve doubts and questions asked by other members.

Many online entrepreneurs have promoted their online business and improved their returns on investments by starting forums related to the products or services they sell. They use informative and useful postings on these blogs to gain the trust of other people in the forum who may actually be their target market. They use forums to build links to their website, helping it getter listing too. The links are also used by other forum members who may be lured by the postings made on the forum. Thus, posting on online forums improves traffic, in turn improving the return on investment. It is also a cost effective means of marketing the website. Forums are great to lure targeted traffic to your websites, improving your click through rates improving your revenue.

Some people make money by posting on online forums. They are paid to post useful and informative information about a topic suggested by the forum creator. This is done usually when a forum has just been created and is in need of new posts to lure more members to the forum.
They love the job, as they get to air their views about a topic and get to make friends online as well as earn for posting on the forums.

Many people also use forum postings to promote their affiliate marketing or Google AdSense programs. You may post in forums that are relevant to the products you market or that compliment the products that you market. You may start posting in a forum that deals with migraine, if you are marketing a natural/herbal cure for migraine. You may offer friendly advice and recommend the products that have brought you such relief that you decided to market it yourself. You may also simply post in any forum, asking for advice from the other members giving a link to you website. You may ask them just how you can improve your website and leave a link. This way the visitors may also add to your revenue when they click on the ads in your website.

Keep posting in forums and ensure that your links are displayed; as this is a sure fire way of improving targeted traffic to your site. The more relevant forums you post in, the more are your chances for improved targeted traffic and the more inbound links you have to your site. Start posting in online forums to improve your returns on investments.

Mike Anson is an expert Internet Marketer who has been training others on Internet Marketing for many years. Visit his latest site Affiliate Marketing for Free information on How to make Money Online.

The Forgotten Forum Introduction

By S McIntyre

Hello, my name is Sophia and I'm from Beautiful BC, Canada and home to the 2010 Winter Olympics. I started working in late 2002 in various online endeavors. I own a work at home website, a health blog and moderate three work at home forums. I'm looking forward to contributing and getting to know you all better.

How hard was that? Not hard at all and it only took me about...oh...30 seconds if that, to let everyone know who I am and what I do. Forum introductions are an integral step and is just as important as reading the forum rules. Don't short change yourself by posting an "empty" introduction. Remember, first impressions always counts.

As a forum owner, I'm well aware of how many people "forget" this all important step. While many forums have a free section for members to promote their businesses, how beneficial is it to make your first post a "post and run"? I can honestly say if a forum requires an introduction your ad just met the delete button and even if they don't, it's forum etiquette. Forums are invaluable tools and it should be utilized to its fullest potential.

How many people who are looking to join a home business or looking for a specific product would seek out a member who only posts in the advertising forum? It's not many to my knowledge.
Would you enter a room full of prospects only to pass out your business card and leave?

If you made your introduction and then secluded yourself to only one section of the forum it doesn't mean your job is done. In fact, that is just as bad as not introducing yourself, in my opinion. The next step is to read the forum, join in various discussions, share your knowledge or expertise, post quality replies to topics of your interests and not just to be self-serving. Now you're actively networking and it is proven to be more effective in creating sales for yourself. People are more likely to buy from people they know and trust.

Taking full advantage of forums and what they offer goes beyond articles that tell you how you can increase sales and how to drive more traffic to your site. As an active forum member you are getting yourself out there, building trust and networking with potential people who may become your new and returning customers. They are also your word-of-mouth. You have now created your own viral marketing and it's far more effective than being a "post and run" poster.

S McIntyre owns Work At Home Space, a free work at home resource offering telecommuting jobs, job leads, articles, tips, information and other work at home related issues. You can also visit her at her blog Healthy Perspectives, featuring an array of health topics, nutrition, fitness and recipes for maintaining a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

4 Important Factors Of Using Forum Signatures

By Tan Eric

Do you have any forums that you drop by frequently?
If so, what is the main motivation that keeps you spending most of your time hanging around the forums?

Is it because you have some internet friends in the forum, or maybe you need helps for your marketing problems or simply you just want to chat with people and be recognized as an authority in certain topics?

To me, keeping up with huge amount of posts and contents each day would be a total waste of my time, especially if it doesn't benefit me in any way towards my business... somehow that's what I used to think.

Until recently I signed up for a newsletter authored by the "Queen of Forums, Cindy Battye. She ultimately reverse the views I have in participating the forums, she also teaches me how to utilize it and turn it into one of my powerful marketing weapon.

Today I'll like to share with you one of the most useful tips that I've learn from her on how to make use of the forum signatures to their full extent.

Most people only use their signatures in an attempt to spam the forum. This not only waste their time and effort when someone clicks on your signature link and only to find out what you offer are usually not related to what they are looking for, but also a great impact on your reputation as they will try to avoid clicking your links in the future.

So the correct way to leave your forum signatures is to consider these 4 important factors when you edit your signature:

1. PROMOTION - The signature link acts just like roadside advertising, especially if it is done such a way it doesn't annoy anyone. In other words, no animated smileys. The repetition of the link and the helpful information above your signature are an effective and long lasting way to promote your company and your product.
2. TRAFFIC - In addition to the promotion which you get from adding your business web link to your signature, you get the traffic from the people who see the site promoted and follow through by clicking on the link. A link that appears regularly on a large and trusted forum is often seen as being more trustworthy. Because the link is visible and the messages are never harsh or divisive, there is already a level of confidence build in the website by itself.
3. BACKLINKS - Each time you post at a forum, you are not only promoting your web page directly and adding to the traffic coming to your website, you're also growing the numbers of your backlinks on your own website. When the search engine spider crawls the forum, your link is counted as a backlink, which provides you with many backlinks within a very short period of time.
4. PAGE RANKING - Increasing the numbers of backlinks can assist in increasing your page rank. Page ranking is Google's measure of importance that they put they stamp on your site, and will affect how high up the page of your website will appear if a person types your keywords into the search engine. You can easily increase your page rank without the need of purchasing any links.

All you need to do is include your web site link within your signature. Although not instantaneous, your signature-based link will soon give you an increased page ranking. Set your signature up correctly. For the best result, use keywords that you want to be found for when people are searching in Google.

Do you still think that spending some time hanging around inside the forums are a waste of time?

Well, at least not for me anymore...

Of course, to fully utilize a forum site will not only consist of adding your your signatures, there's more to it. But your main concern when making a post to which ever forum you're in is to understand their rules and regulation, and to provide genuinely useful contents when starting or replying to certain topics.

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