Online forums and forum marketing have a far greater potential than many marketers realize. You have to pick the right forum, of course, as there are so many which are underpopulated. It is very easy to set up a forum script, it is far harder to actually get some activity on to the boards and attract some people. The good news is that active forums are easy enough to identify and easy enough to find. Because forums are inherently search engine friendly, it often takes no more than a simple search to find them. What is admittedly harder is finding out what the people running the forum want from their contributors.
All content syndication is a matter of mutual benefit. The person or forum receiving the content wants to get some material benefit from it, and the person offering the content needs something in return. Often, that something is no more than to find some information, and that is usually easily done. The forum owners, however, will benefit from keeping the contributor on the forum so that they can pass on their own advice in turn. To do this, many forum owners (the wise ones) will allow the contributor to place a link in their signature file.
This link can rarely be blatantly commercial, and affiliate links are not usually allowed even in marketing forums. Make sure you choose one which will let you link back to your own site, even if that site is overtly commercial. Not being able to include blatantly commercial links is no bad thing, because they would receive very few meaningful click-throughs anyway. In order to get a benefit from people coming to your site, you will need to have them in the right frame of mind, which means that you will need to build up trust, and a reputation, before you can really expect any great results.
Once you have joined the forum, you will want to make sure your link gets seen and clicked on. Many marketers make the rookie mistake of posting one liners and even meaningless comments just to get their link seen. Don’t do this, as you will probably get your account banned and you will certainly get no benefit from this. Get involved in discussions in a meaningful way, and get the posters on the forum to like you. Give them what they are looking for. Speak to them in their own language. Don’t use highbrow terms if the rest of the forum is using casual slang, and vice versa.
It is usually easier to increase conversions than traffic in any form of marketing. You can do this by making sure that you become a popular and respected member of the forum. This means that you be some way towards making a sale before the visitor even arrives on your site. If you are worried about increasing workload, have other people write posts for you. There are plenty of outsource workers who will be happy to this in bulk for very reasonable prices. It is best that you actually post the content yourself, so you can make sure it is up to standard. Get this right, and you can be a very prolific user of highly effective forum marketing.
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Most internet marketers who are making decent money these days are using Cost Per Action, or CPA ads. I feel the reason for this, is that affiliates don’t need to compete with making high volume of sales in order to get credited, so they can get paid.
CPA Marketing is one of my favorite ways to make money!
Appreciate the info on the list of markets that you have provided.
Neverblue is my favorite CPA network though and think I will always
put them toward the top my list. The money is definitely paid out a little
easier then with Clickbank. But Clickbank still has many advantages as well
and I find that it is just the of market that you involved that decides which
network to use.
Chris