Part three (if you missed part 1 go here increase website traffic thru forum marketing)

In the previous two pieces of this article we talked about increasing website traffic to the opt in page, sales page, blog or other product pages of your website.

We had talked about teaming up with someone and having a planned out strategy where you tell people in your forums how good their stuff is directing the readers of the thread to their landing page, and your partner does the same for your stuff.

This was based on the assumption that you had been in the market you’re in for a while and had already built up a good reputation with lots and lots of posts in the certain forums in that market.

SO what if you have never done any forum posting (or none in the market you’re currently attacking)?

When this is the case can do a slight twist on this technique.

It’s a little bit sneaky but very effective in getting Web traffic visitors to your opt in page or your main site.

What you do is go into the top eight or 10 forums in your market and sign up for accounts under a user name that represents your ideal customer. Meaning if your ideal customer is a 40 to 50-year-old woman that makes $50,000+ a year then you want to have a type of user name that woman would have.

This way she’ll identify with you more and the more she identifies with you the more likely she’ll be to take your advice, follow your suggestions, and ultimately buy your stuff. Which is the end goal anyway.

Now you never want to lie, let me make that very clear right now. Even though your operating under your stage name or an actor name whatever you call it, you still use your expertise and provide relevant, honest, and valuable answers to their questions.

And what you can do when the time comes for your product launch, or when you have something new ready to go you can start placing some links to it within your answers when that makes sense.

So when you’re answering a question that’s asking about a certain resource and your products is that type of resource then you can direct people to it. They will see this as you just finding this cool resource that someone else made.

They’ll be more likely to trust your recommendation because you’re recommending someone else’s resource. Obviously it has to be a very valuable and useful resource where they get way more value than the money they have to give up for it. When that’s true you get a very powerful conversion and the increased website traffic that comes to your page convert very well for you.

Originally posted 2008-04-28 14:02:11. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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