Starting today, I will be posting some advertising methods with detailed explanation so if you are looking for some specific advertising strategy, this will be a good start. I will be writing a series of articles under Advertising and Promotion Recipe and all of these advertising methods will mainly focus on personal sites, since the audiences of Myseoblog.net are webmasters, bloggers, and online moneymakers. These methods are less effective to bigger companies considering that they have funds to pay Pay-per-click and SEO Companies to promote their products and services. These series of articles will mainly focus on “Free Advertising and Promotion”.

Since one of my most effective advertising strategies is Forum Posting on forums that allow signatures, I will start with this method.

Forum Posting
Ninety per cent of today’s bloggers and personal webmasters did not create their sites without motivation and inspiration. The very first site that I created last 2003 was a forum and I got an idea of creating such site from other forums with similar niche too. The forum was successful enough to have 15,000 registered members in just 4 months before it was sold to a Hong Kong National for couple of thousand dollars. Around 85% of those 15,000 members came from other forums though my signature, and some paid signatures of other members – and only 15% came by way of personal invitation, referrals, and banner/link exchanges. Article submission and writing, link building, and social bookmarking were not yet known to me that time. That forum was not even indexed properly by Google before I sold it.

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Forum Posting is the most powerful way of advertising to target audience if you are dedicated to do so. If you enjoy reading g and posting in response to others’ threads, you will not notice that your posts and messages are sending visitors to your site.

Let’s take two big forums for instance, the Sitepoint and Digitalpoint Forums. I am a regular member and visitor of these forums (not to mention other forums here) and visiting them is really rewarding.

Here is a simple method that you can try.

1. Visit a forum of your interest, join, and create a signature – not just a signature: A good signature that catches attention (but make sure you are following the forum rules).

2. Remember that your main purpose here is not to advertise but to join the community. You will be tempted to spam if you bare advertising in your mind.

3. Browse the forum and start responding to some threads that catches your attention and interest.

4. Study how other members react to your posts and messages.

5. Build rapport with other members buy sharing some useful and interesting thoughts.

6. Think of a very good topic, create a thread, and maintain it. Be responsive when someone posts a comment to your thread.

7. That’s all and you can have a daily unique of around two hundred is you keep doing that in populated forums like Talkgold, Dreamteammoney, and other webmaster forums listed here. Posting 10 useful messages daily in both Digitalpoint and Sitepoint forums daily will give you an average of 150 unique visitors per day.

This is not a waste of time. I can say it’s a waste of time if you join the forum and send members some personal messages with your link, or directly posting your link on your messages, and then you get banned. I know you don’t want to get banned so be professional. Remember that your messages posted in a certain forum will not be viewed only once. As long as it makes sense, people will keep responding and keep on seeing your attractive signature.


In forum posting, you are not just promoting your site. You are promoting your site unnoticeable while you are building your reputation that can attract more audience in the future.

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This is my first article under “Advertising and Promotion Recipe” and I hope you like it. More recipes to come!

Related articles for this post:
Lists of Dofollow Forums that allow Dofollow Signatures
Lists of Webmaster and Moneymaking Forums
Lists of Free Advertising Forums
Lists of Credit Repair Forums
Lists of Real Estate Forums

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