Depending on which niche you have chosen, you will be looking at web properties that have lots of people every day in that niche. In the Internet marketing niche, you can use forums such as the Warrior Forum, Digital Point. Because a substantial number of people interested in online marketing *hang around* at these web properties, they are some of the best places to look for members. Forums in other niches are a little more sensitive to advertising, so you'll need to check with the individual rules and regulations of each forum you're interested in.
The most common way to use Forums commercially without spamming involves using some net etiquette. We suggest that you register, read a few existing posts to get the flavor of the conversations, then add to the ongoing conversations without leaving a signature. Just comment meaningfully.
After a day or two or when others comment on your comments, go back into your forum profile and add a sig that includes just one of your web properties. Behave like the exemplary citizen Kane by commenting and being responsive to others, then perhaps later, add another web link ( if you wish to ) inside your forum signature. This sig is written automatically underneath every comment that you make, so 20 comments per day on 10 sites can produce that many more back links and opportunities for people to get to your membership site.
This isn't the only way to use forums but it is the cheapest and possibly the easiest. Remember too that you can contact the Forum owner and try to buy advertising or check if Yahoo is already being advertised on the site and go into your Google Adwords or Search Marketing account and specifically place an ad on that site using "placements". The point is that forums are potentially a huge place to inhabit for instant traffic generation.
Another thing you can do is advertise with a ppc "pay per click" engine like Yahoo Search marketing. This allows you to target chosen keywords. Picking keywords consisting of just one word is typically too broad to do much good and the commercial intent of most one word keywords is far too low to be useful for a membership site. Try using 3 or 4 word ( called long tail) phrases with low competitiveness and less than 1000 monthly searches. Pay Per Click is a good option because feed back can be near instantaneous and adjusting your landing page or ad based on the feedback is scientific and need not subjective.
Search engine optimization is also something you will want to look at rather closely. For organic search results sales pages can sometimes rank for certain key terms but more often than not content-based pages do significantly better in terms of serps(Search engine Results Pages). Our advice therefore is that, you should create articles that relate to the niche of your membership site. Have these articles link back to your conversion page, because they will be search engine bait and can help you get more members.
Take the opportunity to use other people's blogs as hosts for your content material. Article syndication has a fairly good record and it is possible to get both the benefits of those who look at the article directories, and those times where your article itself ranks highly in the search engines.
Free to use website builders are another great option to drive traffic. Free sites such as Digg, Blogger.com and Wordpress.com are amongst the best out there. You can quickly and easily create pages that will direct potential clients to the conversion page. You'll also get the benefit of getting back links to your website from sites hosting your articles.
To Your Membership Site Success!!
Trevor Weir - 2364
The most common way to use Forums commercially without spamming involves using some net etiquette. We suggest that you register, read a few existing posts to get the flavor of the conversations, then add to the ongoing conversations without leaving a signature. Just comment meaningfully.
After a day or two or when others comment on your comments, go back into your forum profile and add a sig that includes just one of your web properties. Behave like the exemplary citizen Kane by commenting and being responsive to others, then perhaps later, add another web link ( if you wish to ) inside your forum signature. This sig is written automatically underneath every comment that you make, so 20 comments per day on 10 sites can produce that many more back links and opportunities for people to get to your membership site.
This isn't the only way to use forums but it is the cheapest and possibly the easiest. Remember too that you can contact the Forum owner and try to buy advertising or check if Yahoo is already being advertised on the site and go into your Google Adwords or Search Marketing account and specifically place an ad on that site using "placements". The point is that forums are potentially a huge place to inhabit for instant traffic generation.
Another thing you can do is advertise with a ppc "pay per click" engine like Yahoo Search marketing. This allows you to target chosen keywords. Picking keywords consisting of just one word is typically too broad to do much good and the commercial intent of most one word keywords is far too low to be useful for a membership site. Try using 3 or 4 word ( called long tail) phrases with low competitiveness and less than 1000 monthly searches. Pay Per Click is a good option because feed back can be near instantaneous and adjusting your landing page or ad based on the feedback is scientific and need not subjective.
Search engine optimization is also something you will want to look at rather closely. For organic search results sales pages can sometimes rank for certain key terms but more often than not content-based pages do significantly better in terms of serps(Search engine Results Pages). Our advice therefore is that, you should create articles that relate to the niche of your membership site. Have these articles link back to your conversion page, because they will be search engine bait and can help you get more members.
Take the opportunity to use other people's blogs as hosts for your content material. Article syndication has a fairly good record and it is possible to get both the benefits of those who look at the article directories, and those times where your article itself ranks highly in the search engines.
Free to use website builders are another great option to drive traffic. Free sites such as Digg, Blogger.com and Wordpress.com are amongst the best out there. You can quickly and easily create pages that will direct potential clients to the conversion page. You'll also get the benefit of getting back links to your website from sites hosting your articles.
To Your Membership Site Success!!
Trevor Weir - 2364
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