Making Money From Forums



If you have a website about a topic you enjoy, you can make money from discussion forums. Talk, post links to your site, get traffic. Traffic means money, right? If not, try different affiliate programs or Google Adwords. The worst sites should get a couple cents per visitor. Now here’s how to talk and make money.
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7 Inexpensive Ways To Generate Traffic

Whether you joined a multilevel marketing (MLM) organization or you are trying to promote an affiliate link, you need traffic. But maybe you are on a tight advertising budget. There are many ways to generate traffic, but this article will discuss 7 inexpensive ways to generate traffic. Some of these techniques are free and some...

PHPBB2: A Tapestry of World Languages

Several of my related articles about PHPBB2, the open source program that helps webmasters create and maintain internet forums, touched on many of the technical aspects of the program. What you may not know is that PHPBB2 has a worldwide audience with the potential to reach more than half of the world’s population in their native...

Joining forums in your niche can be a great way to get exposure to your site (and the WarriorForum is great for this if you are in the Internet Marketing niche). But you must know how to use forum marketing correctly. If you join and start blasting promotional offers everywhere you will be banned very quickly! So, be considerate of your audience and try to be polite, too.

Your first step is to find a good forum in your niche. This can be done by doing an online search with these terms:...

Forums often receive a tremendous amount of traffic, and they often have great authority with the search engines. How many times have you searched for something online and discovered that a lot of the top links were to forums? Some forums use the tag “rel=nofollow” on their links, especially the link in signatures and posts.

This tag tells search engines not to follow those links, rendering them useless from a purely SEO standpoint. Of course, those links are still extremely...