Do you use online forums to get traffic to your blog? If your answer is NO, than in this post you will get to know why forums are important for bloggers.
When I started blogging I was not aware about the power of forums. I had an impression that it is just a medium to get answered your question quickly.
Then one day a question came into my mind, why people are interested in answering others question? Why they are putting so much effort in it?
This is a bitter fact that nobody in this world does anything without any incentive in return. It’s a different thing that incentive can be money, traffic to blog, promotion, self-satisfaction or anything else.
So I started to join different forums and started posting there and then I came to know secret why people love to use and post in forums.
Here are my top 5 reason why a blogger should use a Forum
1- Engagement with other bloggers
Forums are great place to interact with other bloggers and best part is you can get bloggers from similar niche. Each forum is belong to a specific niche e.g. Health Forum, Webmaster Forum, Auto Forums, Mobile Forums etc.Website Babble is a great online forum for bloggers like you and me to connect with each other.
You just need to find top 5-10 forums from your niche and join them. Forums have facility to send personal message and friend request to each other. They have different discussion group where you can find other blogger with whom you can interact.
If you introduce yourself effectively and engage with other members actively then you can get potential client for your business as well.
2- Promotion
Forum is not only to put questions only, you can share your article and blog links with others or alternatively you can put your article links in your signature.Every forum provide the facility to put 2-3 links in your signature and whenever you put any post/reply in any thread your signature will be visible with your content.
You have to use your signature effectively. Post on those thread which is discussing about the same topic that you have put in your link to get maximum benefit of this promotion trick.
3- Traffic
Blogging is all about ‘Money’ and ‘Traffic’. Money is directly depending upon Traffic so ultimately traffic is most important thing. Forums play an important role in getting targeted traffic to your blog.The more you post in different discussion thread, more people know about you, about solution you posted (you can put your blog article link – wherever it adds value to discussion) and visit your blog.
If you provide a perfect solution with your link (that point to your article) you can get lots of traffic from it.
4- Backlinks
This is most wanted thing now a day. When you join a blog they ask you to create a profile and in profile you have option to add your blog URL and put 2-3 links in signature.Blog url is a do follow backlink (in most of the forum) and some forums provide do follow signature link as well so in one go you can get 1-3 backlink. Most of forums have PR5 and above so it is an easy method of getting high quality (natural) backlink.
Note- Not all the links you shared on the discussion threads are do follow but they bring lots of traffic to your blog so you must participate in forum discussions.
5- Topic for new articles
This is what I discovered when I was running short of new topic for my article. If you scan forums you can find hundreds of question people asked and different people provide solution about that.You just need to pick a suitable for your article and then start writing about it. As this is already discussed by hundreds of people in forum so you can understand it requirement.
Believe me forum is great source of getting fresh ideas for your blog.
Apart from the above major reason you can get following thing using forums
- You can sell ad space easily in forums (just put a sell thread)
- You can get lots of freebees in forums that you can further use in your blog contest as giveaway.
- You can sell your article or you can get article on very low price.
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