I've been signing up for online marketing forums, well forums on various topics.
Some are webmastering forums (like I really know what to do there) , others are writers forums (they tend to be a little snobbish), still others are SEO forums (there's stuff to say about some of those), other forums are about blogging/ how to blog/ how to get visitors to your blog... I feel a bit more at home on those.
The SEO forums have what are known as "junk posts". Apparently there are a lot of people who post to forums to "drop links", they have little interest in contributing to the forum, all they want is to get their link on the forum.
Then there are the "nazi" forum moderators, they assume that we joined the forum for the express purpose of spamming them... then there's the whole issue of what is and what isn't spam.
My boss is shepparding me through this process, he suggested I sign up for a couple dozen forums, I found this overwhelming... then I saw the LONG list of forums, the list HE signed up for (we wont talk about that)
Here is just ONE of the long lists:
and here is another one:
Among this list I found these both useful and not so intimidating (which is to say the community welcomed me and I did not feel incompetent)
On Blogger forum, I was quite comfortable. There was no intro section, so I created a new topic, introduced myself and proceeded from there.
If you want to know how I did this?, Here is a step-by-step tutorial of sorts, forgiving any mistakes, for I am learning as I go also.
Sign up for forums of your choice, you'll have to register. After registering you'll be sent an email to confirm that you are really a person and not a machine. I have learned that there are programs that people write, they act like little machines called "spambots". They make fake blogposts and fake forum posts, more on that topic later. Make certain you confirm this email. If not, you will not be registered and you won't be able to write posts on that forum.
After you have confirmed your email, login and find your profile and fill it out. Some forums don't call it a profile. They refer to it as a userCP, so you may have to hunt for it. Along with filling out your profile you need to upload your picture. Why is this so important??? Because it seems that over half of people using forums don't bother posting a picture. If you want to stand out and more importantly be taken seriously, you should put your picture on your profile.
Your profile is one of the main reasons, if not the primary reason for posting to a forum. Why is this??? Because you want the "Googlebot" to spider the forum to see you and your link... more later it's late and I'm tired. I spent the last three and a half days at the hospital with my daughter and newly born granddaughter, she is a Halloween Baby!!!
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