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Traffic Generation – Forum posting
This is an ‘old school’ technique for generating traffic to your website and it is well worth spending
some time doing this yourself because it still works. So many marketers are always looking for new
traffic generation methods but completely overlook methods like this which is a shame for them
but great news for us.
All you have to do is carry out a Google search for online forums in the niches of the product that
you are promoting.
In our case it is the massive niche of ‘weight loss’ but do yourself a favor and try and think out
of the box. As so many people are trying to lose weight, you can target so many forums such as
those dedicated to stay at home moms, truck drivers, wedding forums, you get the picture, each
one of those groups will have people who are interested in losing weight in one way or another.
Keep an eye out for sub forums within the main forum and get involved by asking questions and
giving advice if possible.
Whatever you do, don’t jump straight in with the link to your website because at best you will be
completely ignored, at worst you will be kicked out of the forum.
I know it sounds a bit corny but if you are promoting a product, as we are, that actually works, you
will be helping people as opposed to just earning money off them.
I have seen some products out there which are nothing more than rehashed rubbish and to be
perfectly honest, if I was promoting something like that I don’t know how I would be able to sleep
at night. When you are using this traffic generation method, don’t think that you have to spend
hours trawling through the various forums.
Just 15 minutes here and there will be more than enough and when you become established on the
forums it is just a case of placing a link to your website in your signature line.
It is more acceptable to link to an actual website which contains useful information as opposed to
linking directly to an affiliate offer.
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