All About Forum Participation

The best way to make money on the internet or even begin to for that matter is to start out with forum participation. This is because you aren't really selling or marketing when your doing it, but simply just answering and asking questions and building trust to people who are already interested in your niche.

Another way to get targeted traffic is to do a search on Google and Yahoo to find discussion forums related to the product you are selling or niche that you are targeting. Let's say that you are going to promote an ebook on skin care. If you do a search for skin care forum on Yahoo you will get plenty of results for discussion forums. In fact, you can try pretty much any niche topic and you are likely to find a fair amount of discussion forums on that subject.

The best thing about this is that you are finding communities and groups who are specifically interested in the type of product that you are selling or promoting from your website. Whenever you sign up to a forum, you have the option of adding a signature, which is a small piece of text that will show up at the end of every post you make on that forum. You can use this by including links back to your websites with catchy link text. Always write in this area, for it will help your forum participation experience that much better and generate ten times more traffic.

Whenever you post, you will attract the attention of the forum visitors, but in addition to that you are also creating links that point back to your main websites. This is good for search engine rankings. Actively participate in the forum discussions and where possible try to find and post answers to questions that people have raised. Do not directly promote your product or website because people generally tend to dislike this. However, if you try to help people initially, they will be naturally drawn to visiting your sites in your signature file, or even if you mention that you have some websites that will be of benefit to them.  Your best bet is to learn about some online marketing courses, and then you will have an education that will lead to making money online.