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Learn to promote your self with Forums.

If you have decided to start working hard on public forums in order to advertise and promote yourself, there are two things you need to know. First thing is DO NOT SPAM. Use the forums according to the T&C and do not abuse it. Second thing, make sure you are on the right place with the right people.

The best way to understand how to do it right is with the pictures example.

Let’s say you have online pictures site and you like to promote it on forums. On your site, there are some good pictures you uploaded and others uploaded, and they are all for sale.

Step 1: search for the right forums. Go on Google and look for the right forums for you. Photographers, pictures fans, collectors, cameras and more. Everything that is around the idea of your website.

Step 2: open yourself a user account: Become one of the gang. Tell people about yourself, what you are doing and reply to other posts. You can take part in public discussions and idea’s.

Step 3: push your business: Tell people about your site, and about the options for them there. Advertise yourself with your ideas and invite people to your site. If the site is cool and the visitors can use it, you will see the traffic coming.

Online forums are great way to help your advertising efforts, use the forums for your best. Forums are there for you to join them, don’t SPAM and be right.

We all know that forums exists, they were there before the social networks and they will be there long after. The forums are built in a way that a visitor can spend hours searching for information and posting and commenting on various subjects.

In forums you will probably find the following types of users:
1. Moderators – Usually the forum police, they will keep the spam out of the forum, delete posts and arrange the threads (a thread is a new subject in a forum) so there won’t be duplicity in the posts.
2. Loyal users – Users who have been posting and commenting for years, you will know that they are there for a long time according to their status (highest as possible) and number of posts (usually a few thousands).
3. Regular users – New or long time users who post from time to time. They are not loyal and bound to disappear some day.
4. Spammers and one time posters – Most of the forum users and you won’t be surprised to read that are – spammers. Sign up either automatically or manually, post about what they are selling and disappear.

These are the types of users in the forums. Now, why do you even need a forum?

1. SEO – forums are UGC – User generated content, if you know how to manage the forum technically, it is bound to be indexed by search engines and you will be seen as a website with a lot of content.
2. Advertising – Forums brings traffic and as such you can advertise in forums and expect immediate traffic and a lot of it (if the forum is any good).
3. For the users it can also be used to get links to their websites (using a signature).

If you know how to use the forums they can be very helpful for you, if you are plan to spam a forum, know that there are big chances that your post will be deleted immediately and your message will not get to where you wanted it to get.

Happy Foruming.