Hey Guys,
As you know I recently started doing a little experiment in order to test the technique of getting traffic from posting in forums related to your niche.
Here’s a recent but brief email I made to my subscribers about my findings…
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Ok so my [tag]forum posting[/tag] experiment has been an interesting one indeed.
I basically stopped after a short period of experimentation because I realised that the plan needed to be seriously revised. This info might be helpful if you’re looking at trying this method for [tag]traffic generation[/tag] yourself.
What I discovered is (not surprisingly really) that experienced posters in popular forums can sniff a person trying to drive traffic to their site from a miiiile away, particularly in non IM forums.
After just a few posts I actually someone reply to one of my posts “I just get a bit suspicious of people with XX (my niche) kind of sites in their forum signature”
Interesting…
While I did generate a few extra opt ins to my email list and a number of half decent relevant links, I stopped and began to revise my plan pretty soon. What I think really has to be done is:
1. You have to outsource the job to a good English speaking, perferrably internet and online forum experienced person. Even while I tested – it’s not just a matter of creating account then posting good content, even that people will see as spam after a while.
You have to maintain a real personality for it to be successful, meaning lots of ‘silly’ posts, lots of ‘yes, I agree etc” posts and more, just to make it so you are a real person trying to build real relationships.
Finally on a more positive note I did see some extra traffic from the experiment and like I mentioned, the opt ins and relevant links. I think where this method would be really powerful is if you are actually interested, knowledgeable or passionate about your niche because then you won’t mind hanging around with like minded people, taking the time to build relationships and make quality posts etc
Andrew
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Hi there! I’m Crystal. I am almost 18.
I guess andrewhansen.name – nice name for this site!
It is so cool here, especially in this category.
I was surfed about 3 hours before found this forum. I think i’ll be here for a long time! :-*