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10 Rules For Driving Traffic Using Forums

Started by joshklein · 9 months ago

Visitors coming to your site from forums are worth 2 to 6 times the average visitor. Why? Forum visitors are proactive information seekers, community-minded participants, and engaged users. They do more everything.
The evidence: traffic to my own blog.
In this article, I’m ... Continue reading »

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  • Karen Zara

    7 months ago

    Why hadn't anyone rated this post yet? It's excellent, especially because you give us, your readers, strong reasons to follow your advice instead of telling us to do as say just because. I've read many articles on driving traffic from forums, but none of them discussed forum traffic's quality as you did above. Great job!
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  • joshklein

    7 months ago

    That is so kind of you to say, Karen. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you'll comment again.
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  • Rajeev Edmonds

    7 months ago

    Forums are indeed an excellent way to get traffic and get known in the community. Unfortunately, large number of people do not want to spend some time or some quality time in these forums. Good article.
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  • Mark Havenner

    6 months ago

    Great post! Now I'll need to add you to the ol' RSS. I used to be heavily involved in forums, especially around 2002 - 2005. It seems that since Social Media took over with a battle axe the ROI of message boards has completely dwindled. Do you still see a sizable return on form effort compared to say network groups or micro-blogging?
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  • joshklein

    6 months ago

    I don't think anything can beat a network group, particularly if you're talking about meeting with people face-to-face. That's the best way to get anything done, no matter your market.

    Regarding micro-blogging: since writing this post, I have become much more active on Twitter. The jury is still out on whether forums compare, but I'm leaning towards "go Twitter go". That may be particular to the subject matter I talk about, so take that with a grain of salt.

    But the lessons are, I think, the same. Find the people talking about what you're talking about and make friends with them -- that stuff is universal!
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