There are literally millions of online forums in any popular niche.These forums get extremely targeted traffic. Many of these forums have millions of registered members and a lot of these members visit the forum on a daily basis.

Forum marketing is one of the easiest ways to get targeted traffic. If you are just starting out or you are on a
shoestring budget, forum marketing is probably the best way to start making a full time income on the internet.

More accomplished marketers use forum marketing (by using outsourcers) to expand their reach and increase their
brand recognition, while at the same time adding hot leads in their mailing lists.

Forum traffic is one of the highest converting types of online traffic…The social proof and open interactions allow
the savvy marketers to generate massive ROI on their efforts…There are several CPA networks who have built $50
Million Plus a year businesses by using internet marketing forums to recruit their affiliates, generate social proofs
and cement their place as trustworthy middlemen.

In signatures you should always use hyperlinking instead of putting naked links. Hyperlinks provide you an
opportunity to insert your main keyword and let the ranking of your site soar in the search results. Also, such links
allow you to presell your prospects a bit before they go to your link.

A hyperlink is basically a line of text containing the link to your site underneath. Many newbies don’t know how to
create “Hyperlinks”, so I am giving a short tutorial below:

Just register in a forum of your choice,login and go to your “control panel”, here you’ll see an option named “Edit
Signatures”,

click on that link and you’ll see a box where you have to insert the text. Include your main keyword at least once(if
you are trying to sell a product then it should be your product name, after you have wriiten the text, highlight it

Next click on the “Insert Link” option and put the URL of your site

The “Preview Signature” option will allow you to see how your signature looks like.

Once satisfied, click on the “save signature” button. Now your new signature will appear everywhere you leave a post.

You can create multiple signatures in the same way (As long as your signatures are within the “characters” limit).

Just try to contribute in a positive way and include a compelling signature with your posts.

With a few days of participation,you’ll build enough no. of posts to send you at least 100 visitors per day
(Remember, forum marketing produces residual traffic)..

Forum marketing is not something that takes hours of time.Just spend half an hour everyday.This participation will
not only get you instant traffic, it’ll establish you as an expert in your niche and get you customers and JV partners (if
you are in IM niche) effortlessly.

Besides generating traffic this way,you can re-direct traffic from these forums in another way too.

Most of these forums allow you to place your banners and text links for a definite amount of fees.

Once you determine that a particular forum is sending you a lot of productive leads, you can negotiate with forum
administrators about the placement of your advertisement.

In most cases, you should get your banner placed in a high traffic sections for $100- $300. Depending on the
conversions of your product, you’ll make several times your initial investment back .

Once you taste success with a particular forum,you can extend your advertising to other related forums.

Forum marketing can be an enormous way of generating traffic if you have a few affiliates for buzz creation.Forums,
like other web2.0 outlets are excellent places to start your viral promotion.Once you provide it the initial thrust,
other members will happily forward it without any extra expense on your part.