10 Ways to Promote With Forums-a Free and Often-overlooked Technique

Promoting your product, whether it's a product you developed yourself, or and affiliate item, is the key to making money on the Internet. You can have the best product in the world, but if know one knows about it, you will not make any sales. And don’t think that because you used all the proper SEO techniques, the search engines will send traffic exploding through your doors, it won’t happen.

There are over two billion websites in existence today. That represents an unbelievable amount of competition. In order to be successful, you’ve got to promote you website and the products you sell.

There are many ways to promote your product. In this article, I’ll cover a free and often-overlooked technique. And no, it’s not writing articles, it is through the use of forums. I post to forums every day and I get a substantial amount of traffic from this technique. Following are a few tips on how to profit using forums.

1. Search for, and register with several forums that are related to your particular niche.

2. After registering with a forum, develop a signature file. A signature file is two or three lines of text that describe the website or product that you are recommending. Mention one or two of the most significant benefits and add a link. Do not use your name in a signature file, just a link to your site or product.

3. Browse among the many posts that people have entered. A post is a question that someone is asking or an answer to a previously asked question.

4. When you find a post that you are knowledgeable about, click on the item. You will be taken to the page that contains that post (usually a question), along with all of the answers that people have provided. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your own response. Most forums provide a box that you can check to include your signature file along with your post, make sure that this box is checked.

5. Do not blatantly pitch your own product in your posts. Be subtle. After you have posted a number of responses, people will begin to see you as an expert in the field.

6. Post every day. I try to post at least seven or eight entries each day. This strategy has worked well for me.

7. Make sure to post with every forum that you are registered with.

8. If the forum has a number of different categories, try to post replies, questions, or comments in a variety of categories. This increases the number of people that will see your posts (and more importantly, your signature files).

9. Some forums have hundreds of pages of postings. Enter your posts at different times of the day to spread your signature file around to the largest possible audience.

10. If you are featuring a new product, or one that in the news, change your signature file to include this hot item.