Forums are a great place to start spread the word about your opportunity.

At forums you can get advice about a product, a business opportunity, affiliate program or you can review their site.

Forums are also a great place to:-

Discover new products, ideas, tips, tools

Make contact with others

And Site Promotion

As traffic is the most important part of any online business I’m focusing my discussion only on Site Promotion

This means you make a posting, at forums, which contain a link to your site, to persuade members to visit your site

Why will they do this ? They will do this for one reason.

Because your site is providing the answers they want.

Posting at forums is also a form of ‘self’ promotion as well as site promotion.

What questions are they asking at forums? These are typical questions that you can find on forums or on search engines.

Where can I find ___
How do I ___
What do I need to ___

Go to your favourite forums now and check this out.  Concentrate on the following posts.

the most frequently asked questions
the ones which get the most views (most forums provide this figure)
the ones with long threads

To use the forum effectively find a TOPIC with a big appeal.

TIPS

The timing of your posting
Reaching the maximum audience.
Respond early in the thread before it slip down and out of the first page
Look for threads that attract a big audience•

To build trust and a relationship with fellow members it pays to make genuine posts

Do you love TIPS? Check out these resources! They are FREE!!!
101 SuperTips
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Forum Owner SuperTips

THINK BIG. ACT. MAKE YOUR BUSINESS DREAMS COME TRUE!

HelenaZ
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Getting traffic to your web site is the most important task for a web master.

Free traffic to your site plays an important role. There are many different ways in which you can generate free traffic.

Here are some of the methods:

1. Writing articles. Some Article Directories provide a form field to include your copyright notice in the resource box.  Entice readers here with a freebie e-book or a report or even an attention-grabbing headline to attract them to click the link and visit your web site.  A good idea is to end your article with a question and link to your web site to find the answer. You also gain credibility as an expert with articles.

2. Creating and distributing a free report on a specific subject helps to get free traffic without putting in much effort.  Include a link to your site or link to a squeeze page to capture readers name and email.  You can send your paid traffic to download this free report and allow them to redistribute the report.  Giving the report for free attracts readers, and by allowing them to distribute freely ensures that your web site gets free traffic,  long after the report was distributed.

3. Post regularly on forums related to your site. Perhaps the easiest and quickest way to get free traffic.  Use these forums to make useful and interesting posts, and include a signature file that allows readers to click through to your site.  If you are not an expert in any niche and are unable to have a discussion around a topic, you can always post questions. Asking for help will get your site noticed and get you some good incoming links.

4. Another option to explore for free traffic is to find link partners and exchange links. This will not only get you direct click-through traffic from other sites, but it will also get you search engine traffic once those sites are indexed and your site is given credit for the inbound links.

5. By maintaining a blog and submitting your blog feed URL to various RSS sites also helps getting exposure to your site very soon. Consider submitting feeds or sites to blog directories with a high PR to make sure you are getting quality incoming links.  Do not ignore submitting to sites with low PR in the later stages. If these web sites “make it big” you do not want to be left out. Don’t overdo it!

6. Submitting your web site to the social book marking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us etc plays also an important role in free traffic. This helps getting good exposure to your web site.

Be careful to get the visitors naturally to your website and never stop your hard work.  Patience really pays!!!

Think Big. Act. Make Your Business Dreams Come True!

HelenaZ
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Twitter: helenazwarts
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I assuming you know nothing about internet marketing, traffic building, SEO, and social marketing. This should provide you with ample material and information to begin and boost traffic to your site.

Why Do People Even Come to Your Site?
The internet is a truly amazing technology. It allows us to share information with others, and, more importantly, to make money from the comfort of home.  But before you can make any money, you’re going to need people to come to your site; traffic.

If you’re new to building traffic, it may seem like a really big & confusing world.  It’s hard to know where to start, and even if you have been trying to build traffic for a long time, you will probably always looking for more ways to increase the numbers.

Generating masses of traffic really isn’t a magical thing that only a few people know how to do. The formula for traffic Generation is: Unique, Quality content + Lots of Hard Work = Lots of Quality Traffic

One thing that can’t be stress enough is the need for quality content.  This is the most important point to traffic generation.  If something is interesting, unique, and informative, people will want to read it..

People are looking for information, and you give them what they’re looking for, then all you have to do is get the word out about your content, and people will come.  If you have a unique and quality product, all you have to do is tell people about that and they’ll be happy to buy.

The Two Basic Traffic Sources of the Internet. These are the search engines, and the social sites. These two methods of traffic generation are becoming more and more integrated.

Search engines rank sites according to content and links.  Social sites give out TONS of links.  It’s a pretty simple conclusion that social sites are a major benefit to SEO.

Now, on to some specific strategies for building traffic via SEO, and more importantly, Social Sites.

Social Sites Strategies

If you really know nothing about social sites, it can be very hard to know where to even begin, let alone WHAT to begin. The world of social sites is exploding at an exponential rate.

(1)     Invest in the future. Here is my long term investment strategy: become an authority on small, relatively new sites. Why? Because the internet and the number of people who use social sites is expanding so quickly, in a year or two,  small sites have the potential to be as big as stumble upon, digg, del.icio.us, and reddit are now.
(2)     Build a large network of friends. The best strategy in social sites is to build a large network of friends. Once you build a network of friends, you have your authority spread out through a site; you essentially have roots that help you to grow the tree of traffic to your site.  Generally, the more friends you have, the more internal links you have planted somewhere in the site,  giving you more authority in the eyes of the site.
(3)     How do you get your stuff shared or bookmarked? You give people good content.
Here are 5 things that people tend to bookmark or share: -

Funny or disgusting. Your average internet surfer is probably looking for a way to pass the time. People like to laugh, and they like to be grossed out.  If you give him entertainment, he’ll support you. Truly useful information. If you offer useful, fresh information to someone, he will appreciate that and support you.                         Bashing people, brand-names, and companies. People can get very emotional about companies or websites or people they dislike. Get people to identify with your article.
Controversial topics. People can get very emotional, and will many times support something just because they feel strongly about it.
Breaking news. News stories that are the first to tell about a major event that people care about also go up very fast in bookmarking and sharing sites.
(4)     If you have good content, how can you get people to find it? The nice thing about the social sharing sites is that they are viral. If one person likes it, they’ll tell his two friends, who will then tell their two friends… etc. etc.

First of all, utilize the friends that you have on that given website (this is where having a large network of friends comes in handy).  Send a shout out, or leave a comment somewhere so that your content gets exposed directly on that website.

Next, you’ll want to utilize any social networking sites your a part of (i.e. facebook, MySpace, bebo, etc).  Send a message to your friends and tell them briefly about the site.  It will give you more traffic exposure.

Another thing you should do is make it very easy to bookmark or share your page; put up buttons directly on your page if possible.

And that is a mouthful. Never try to do everything instantly. Build daily and patiently. You will eventually reap the results. Never give up.

HelenaZ
skype: hzwarts
Twitter: helenazwarts
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