Forum marketing is a proven technique to boost your web traffic and establish your brand identity. I have already outlined the different types of post you can create in a forum in the post How to Use Free Forums to Launch Your Online Marketing Campaign. Though it is easy to find internet related forums to participate, how do you find active forums in other niches? There are two techniques for you to use. Use the Google search engine or a very specialized Big Message Board directory that tracks and categorizes the most active forums in hundred of niches.

When using Google, perform a search using the keywords forum and your niche. For example, “forum gardening“. Put the keywords in quote for a better match. After doing the search, you have to visit each forum and find out its Alexa ranking, how many posts and active users it has, how many active users are present at any time during the day, and if the forum allows you to put your signature in the post. It will take lots of time. Is there a better alternatives? Yes, use the Big Message Board.
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If you’re running a website for a while, you must have received numerous unsolicited emails that promise you page one ranking of your site in search engines. Ignore those emails. Genuine search engine optimization firms don’t send unsolicited emails and they cannot promise anything.  They can help you find if anything is wrong with your site in terms of SEO (search engine optimization) and suggest how to improve it.

But, the good news is that you can do your own SEO using my easy SEO plan. You don’t need the help of search engine optimization firms, specially when you are starting your online business and money is tight.

Moreover, it is mandatory that you implement some of the SEO  techniques I have discussed here if you want to improve your site’s ranking in the search engine result page. The easy way to implement SEO is to use the WordPress blogging platform to develop your site. You can not only use WordPress for blogging, you can also use it to develop a full fledged site with all the bells and whistles.
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Many newbie website owners still use link exchange techniques for backlinks to their sites. When you are engaged in link exchanges with other sites, you don’t get oneway links to your site. The negative effect of an out going link from your site to another site nullifies the positive effect of a backlink from another site. So, it is a zero sum game. With the explosion of Web 2.0 and social networking sites, free oneway links from these authoritative sites should be your  link building strategy.

Last year I wrote a post on 25 sites for web traffic from high page rank back links. The post has become very popular and had 68 comments as of this writing. I decided to revisit the topic and add more Web 2.0 sites where you can leave your web site’s URL for oneway links to your site. I have checked these 16 sites for accuracy and I have used these sites to obtain oneway links.
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With the increasing popularity of free online classified ads due to their simplicty and effectiveness, scammers are prowling free classified sites to prey upon the most gullible. A classified scam starts with responding to ads posted in these sites or posting ads to attract scam victims. But most of the time, these scammers will reply to pet ads, autos for sale, aprtment rental, big ticket items like TV, cell phones, etc. for sale.

The scammer sends an email offering to buy your item using a cashier’s check. Value of these checks will often far exceed the item price. They will tell you to cash the check in your bank account and send the excess amount to one of their agent in the USA for shipping the item to a foreign country, like Nigeria but it can be any country.
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Are you using press releases to get back links to your web site? If not, you need to submit a press release whenever there are major improvements to your website. You must submit a press release at the launch of your new site. Regularly submitting press releases a few time a year will help you get some backlinks from high quality sites. However, you should only submit press releases if you have some newsworthy thing to say about your site.

What is a press release? A press release is a news related article about your site. It is not a promotional piece. It is used to announce time sensitive information. For example, when you launch a site, you want to announce it to the world. Or, when you added a new feature that benefits users greatly, you would like everybody know about it.
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