A Method of Web Promotion
A method of web promotion which is not very talked about. There is a very good tool for web promotion that you probably are not using, these are very good sources of traffic that you should not overlook, and should be part of your everyday web promotion.
Forums are a good source of traffic and good place to submit your website, and start your web promotion. Join a few of them and talk about your web site, and you will get traffic and also feed back, people criticizing your site which is very valuable information that allows you to change your site accordingly, before the search engine spiders arrive, and at the same time you can learn many thing from registering a domain name to marketing and other tips about web promotion as well. Their criticism will also help your search engine optimization.
Forums are like open squares for discussions, if you never been to one, find one and have a go, they are full of people like you discussing all sorts of thing, and you will be surprised how interesting and informative it can be. In forums you can get very honest information that you won’t find anywhere else and after a while you can ask directly about your website and even about your web promotion.
There are a few things that you should know before going around to forums and talk to everybody about your website.
First is to find a forums that’s interested with the subject of your website, there is no point in going to talk about dogs in a forum about racing car. That’s the most important thing; the forum must be related to your website somehow.
Once you find a forum related to your website you must check if you are allowed to post a link to your website, some do and some don’t, so make sure you read their conditions before you do anything else. Many forums encourage you to talk about your website, these are the best forums.
Another very important thing to remember when going to forums is to be very polite; this is a rule that must not be violated.
At the beginning test the waters, don’t go there and say that your are doing web promotion, introduce yourself and don’t talk too much, see what other people are saying and go and see their websites and make a few comments. And slowly then introduce your website with more information and question about its color or navigation, content or what ever, you will be surprised how many people like talking and giving advise, then you can decide for your self either to use that advise or not, but at the same time you are getting free traffic, and that’s what web promotion is, getting traffic, by submitting your url to these places you are getting back links as well and improving your PR, and if you site is interesting that traffic should only go up, if you got a boring and not interesting site of course whatever strategy you use to promote it, you will never be able to position it.
It’s always better to offer first, before asking, by this I mean that you should look at other people’s website first, and comment on them before talking about yours, people will be pleased that you took the time to help them with their web promotion, and in return they will do the same for you. Don’t expect a flood of traffic to your website from this, unless your site is so special that everybody starts talking about it, but if you keep persevering and your site has some value you will get a steady amount of traffic and if you keep improving and give the visitor a reason to come back they will, why not? It’s in their interest to come back because your site delivers value, and your web promotion will start returning.
This is one form of web promotion but you shouldn’t rely only on this one. A good web promotion strategy should also be very varied, and should include many different ways of promoting your site like articles, submitting to directories, link exchange, and many more, because they are all part of the web promotion process, that’s needed for positioning your web site in the search engines, and if you don’t achieve that you waisted your web promotion.
This method of web promotion can reward you probably more or the same as reciprocal linking and others. The links and visitor that you get to your website, are very valuable, because obtained by real work, which in the end your web promotion strategy and your web site could be rewarded by the search engines.
