Forum marketing...still?

Thanks for your reply , I guess I have to test it. I want to try it with affiliate marketing.

I believe forum marketing certainly still works. The thing is forum marketing has been around for sooo long and as a result, there is always that slight tendency for people to feel like it's outdated especially when you have all the latest and greatest shiny objects that are thrown at us on a daily basis.


It's kind of how people say article marketing is dead or how some still question the effectiveness of blog commenting and email marketing. These "old school" methods have stood the test of time and it's easy for people to think they are no good anymore because of how simple they are.


I personally had been guilty of thinking this way. I somehow got lured into thinking that if the strategy wasn't complicated, then it wasn't as effective. After having chased my fair share of shiny objects, I'm back to working on some small projects by sticking to the basics and keeping things simple. One of several of those basic methods I'm using is forum marketing.

Please let me know what is the "Next big thing" according to you. Because i am suffering for good traffic this days..please don't take it other wise.

"Forum marketing" has meant a few different things over the years.

Participating in a community, building a reputation and cultivating relationships still works. Especially if, like wolfmii, you have something besides an affiliate link to offer.

Spamming forums with affiliate links for direct sales never did work all that well. Forum owners and real community members hate it and will work to stamp it out. It's the biggest reason people whine about not being able to use sigs in forums on topics popular with IMers.

And spamming forums with links for SEO died with the Google menagerie, much like article marketing as in spewing keyword stuffed digital manure across as many worthless directories as possible.

Yes it does.

If you see most of the posts here have their own signatures for their offers or landing pages.

The key is to provide value and participate frequently.

Helping others get you more visitors to your signature and sites. And it does work on any niche if the forum allow the use of signatures.

Yeah, I've noticed that over the last few days. Haven't seen the main forum over 2,000 at any time that I looked. That, coupled with the fact that everyone wants everything for $7, makes me wonder how viable this forum is anymore.

The fact that something like 70% of the traffic on this site is from India doesn't help either. Nothing against India in particular, but the differences in the economies is problematic when trying to sell anything even moderately priced.

True, the forum doesn't have as much traffic as it once did.

Part of me wonders... If this is due to less people launching on the WarriorForum and therefore leaving the forum itself bereft of the traffic. Back a few years ago, there were a lot more offers being launched, and the vendors and affiliates brought lots of email traffic to the forum.

These days, there are so many more places to launch. This has to have made a significant dent in the WF traffic.

Yes, of course it is and forever because this is the point where people share problem and solution

The amount of traffic in a forum is insignificant. For example, I have found that derivative traffic can be a far more powerful marketing leverage than getting direct ttraffic from a sig file. Perhaps the same can be said for forums within virtually any other conceivable niche.

Many of the top marketers I know use top-rated forums and other high visibility outlets to publish content for their own prospects and subscribers. The internal communities are merely a relatively small part of the much wider marketing apparatus.