How Do I Get Traffic From Forums?

31 Jan 15 10:48 am

Have you looked at the signature for people who post on the forum? If they have a signature with a link back to their site, then you can probably do the same. It could be that they don't want postings that are purely sales-type of posts.

02 Feb 15 3:10 am

At the same time don't be one of those people who goes into a forum and posts some useless comment ("Good comment, I totally agree") just to get your footer links in front of faces.

Gah. I freaking hate that, and I will ban people from this forum if I smell that in their forum posts.

Aside from footer links and contributing something useful to the discussion, you might also want to look for a forum that isn't quite so uppity about this. Forums usually only get all CAPS LOCKY like that when they've been hammered by spammers in the past. So look for forums that aren't such immediate targets.

I find it much easier to share my site in forums if I have something really nice to share with people. I create content that I KNOW will make people go "Oh wow! That's so awesome!"

One nice trick is to hang out in forums for a bit and see what kind of stuff people really want, but aren't able to find. It could be a simple explanation of a complicated concept, it could be some kind of tool, it could be a collection of links to useful resources, etc.

Then create content on your website that addresses this need. You might need to put a bit of effort into creating it... not just a twenty minute article or something. Also forget about whether there's a keyword for it, or anything like that. Your goal is to get people saying WOW and sharing your site with each other.

Then you can go into the forum (one that isn't all CAPSLOCKY in their aversion to links) and say something like "Hey guys, I saw someone asking this the other day so I put together this resource for you. I hope you like it. If there's anything you think is missing please let me know."

I've done this before, expecting to be shot down, and I've been really surprised how appreciative people have been. I even did it on Reddit -- that most unforgiving of public forums -- and all I got was comments like "wow, that's really useful, thanks!"

Someone also added me to their list of resources, and every time a newbie comes into the forum asking newbie questions, that person comes along and shares my site. If you make something good, it will keep on giving!

02 Feb 15 10:47 pm

In this post Panda-Penguin period, forums are not really good places to do backlinking and SEO. Like the wonderful comments above, you use forums and community-based sites to communicate and share your opinion, feedback, and view and knowledge on something. You do forums to share what you know and at the same time also learn from others. And by actively participating in the forums you build relationships and network over time.

09 Mar 15 7:45 am

In forum posting you can read or share your opinions on different-different topics. Forms sites gives you the area for post your site links and promote it further more. it's the best way to get natural links or backlinks.

18 Mar 15 5:02 am

Getting traffic from forums sites is not hard. Firstly you should have to consider some point such as responded users, share relevant & useful information, add signature and multimedia content. So these all are the point which are helpful for get traffic.

13 Apr 15 9:20 am

In forums, healthy discussions are important to get traffic for your website.Give detailed information of asked question and show your expertise on any particular topic, then automatically you will get traffic.

Without giving value or solving problem, how people will come to know that you are expert or sharing something which is valuable.

So try hard to learn these techniques and avoid spamming in forums.