Traffic Methods Part 3

Blogging and Forum Posting

You surely know what blogs and forums are. Though blogs and forums are different
from each other, there’s one thing that’s common between them. Both of them allow
visitors to post comments on them. That is the reason why they become interactive
tools for the marketers of today.


Many marketers are known to start blogs of their own and make a post about their
industry or even about their own product. They then put the link of their business
website in the post or below it (below is considered more dignified). Visitors read the
post and may probably visit the link mentioned. Thus, blogging is a good method of
traffic generation.


Now, it is not necessary for you to have your own blog to market through them.
(Incidentally if you want to make your own blog, software such as Blogger, available
at http://www.blogger.com/, and Wordpress, available at
http://www.wordpress.com/ can help you.) You could even visit blogs and forums of
other people that are active on the Internet and make your comment on them. Even
these have the same result; you get people coming in through the promoted link.
Forums follow a similar principle, but here you have to follow threads. Check out
Digital Point Forums (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/) to see how the system works.
Here you can initiate a thread. Forums have a better approach than blogs because
here you will find only people who are very serious in the industry. Thus, both blogs
and forums can improve the amount of traffic that your website is getting if you do
them correctly.