Traffic Thursdays :: Free Traffic Methods :: Forums

So I’m continuing the free traffic method series today. Oor focus today will be on posting to other online communities to research your market and draw traffic to your site.

Before I go into that though, I want to make it clear that I’m not talking about having your own forum in this space. There simply isn’t enough room to go into all the ways that you can use community at your own site, and do it properly, in order to draw more return traffic to your site.

In the Free Traffic Primer series I have coming up, you’ll be able to learn how to create a forum, when to create one, how to get people to start posting right away and what most people do wrong with their forum communities when first starting out.

There’s also a lot to be said about whether and why to have a high traffic forum – sometimes a high traffic community on your site is Not what you want to have, and you might be better off, and make more money, from a smaller community that is focused more towards support.

I used to run the third most popular poetry community site in the world, behind Def Poetry Jam and Poetry.com – and we’re re-opening our doors by this fall (I Finally have time, and my partner found enough staff.) We had 2600 members and 1 million page views a month, generating $300 – $600 in ad revenue alone – and that was before Google AdWords came along.

The discussion board/forum issue of the Free Traffic Primer will be the third one in series of ebooks, tools, tutorials and collections that I’ll have ready to launch at the end of the month.

For now, we’re going to focus on the best ways to generate interest in you and your site with other people’s forums – stay tuned for the newsletter to find out more about where to find these forums.

(And maybe I’ll give you a little tidbit about creating forums in my audio post this evening. We’ll see, as my Mom used to say…)