Promote Through Forum Marketing

One of the most effective ways of marketing your work from home business is posting in forums. Today we will discuss what makes this type of marketing so effective, some guidelines to follow when promoting, and some of the most popular forums on the web.

Forum marketing is one of the top ways of building up you work at home business. For one thing the more posting you do the more backlinks you will create. Remember that backlinks are one of the things search engines look for when crawling. In addition to backlinks you will create more traffic by including your website, product, or service in the discussion.  The more traffic you recieve the more money you will make working from home.

However, certain guidelines must be followed when posting. For example, some forums do not allow promotion of affiliate links. It is crucial that you follow the instructions before participating in discussions. If the forum does not allow direct marketing of your work at home business, product or services do not do it. This is the easiest way to get banned from further participation in discussions.

You can find indirect ways of drawing attention to your work at home business in forums. One way of doing this is by asking for advice on how you can improve a work at home website and then placing your link in the post. Another way is by giving advice about a related topic and showing how you did it by referring them to your site.

Here is a list of some popular forums:

http://www.myspace.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.digg.com/