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Forum Promotion in SEO

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http://www.paridhiinfotech.com

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Agenda Forum Posting in SEO What is Forum Posting? Benefits of Forum Postings Important Points before Postings Example and Case Studies

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Forum Posting in SEO

“Forum posting is an important effective SEO

Link Building Method to getting quality traffic and quality back links

to your website.”

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What is Forum Posting?Forums is a place to discuss about all, it’s

nothing but conversation. Many people will participate & interactive here with there knowledge, doubts and suggestions. Who have expertise and who have good amount of knowledge will discuss about Question & Answers, about doubts, services, products, suggestions, advices, feedbacks and more…

Benefits from Forum Posting Awareness among the target audience: This method has a

very deep impact on the users, who uses internet as their primary source to achieve any information. Forums help us reach to the most appropriate or target audience and which helps us to disseminate the right information at the right place. If you are authentic, your existence among the right audience will make yourself visible among them thus causing an awareness of your presence.

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Enhance traffic: Once we perform this process, there are various protocols we follow which our experts have designed specifically for our clients. The relevancy of our information makes us visible and increases the traffic for our clients.

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Lifetime relationship: Once the awareness had spread, and people follow you in your comments and posts or threads they know the information is coming from a trusted source. This trust helps in building a lifetime relationship with the online users. Handling the online audience is the toughest part of e-business, but once the target users know you are authentic a lifetime relationship starts.

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Affects your Google Page Rank: As we all know back-link is one of the major factors that determine your Google page rank. Since you can get high quality back-links from Forums, you will be able to reach a better Google Page Rank within a short time periods. Then Google PR decides the place of your blog/website in SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Better the Page Rank will show your blog in a higher position of SERP. Simply this will bring tons of organic traffic to your blog via search engines.

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Quick and affordable: It provides you quick visibility if done correctly and it is the most affordable way to have popularity among the masses.

Provides visibility: There are hundreds of people who join forums every day, the traffic is huge. If this process is done correctly it brings a lot of visibility and more importantly visibility to the appropriate readers. For SEO, forum post acts as a channel to boost the visibility.

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Before creating a forum post keep the following points in mind:

Relevancy to the niche subject: Writing forum posts on general subjects for a niche forum won’t help, as it will gain very little or no organic traffic. If you add to the discussion in a meaningful way, people will be more likely to trust your inputs and will visit your website.Search and post on forums with high traffic: To get the maximum benefit and exposure, search the post with high visitor traffic. Forums with less traffic will not help you achieve your purpose.

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Make it Interesting: Avoid repetitive subjects, the one already discussed. Hot topics with controversial thread titles are more likely to be discussed than the monotonous topics. Conduct research and find fresh ideas to make the article debatable. Include factual points to make it interesting.

Large Amount of Content: More the content, more are chances for search engines to crawl you soon as search engines do not solely look at individual forum posts, but crawl an entire page.

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Writing Style or Well-Written Forum: Give your post a good text formation, as it will be easier for the readers to follow your thought and increase the chances from posters to contribute.

Add signature and website link: Forums allow members to create a signature. Signature is an important part of a forum profile. Here you can add a link to your website and if want can describe it in few words. Signature now will appear below all your posts. This will help the people interested in your post to contact you and visit your site; hence your site traffic increases. But remember, that you don’t just advertise your site; as this may be considered a spam and deleted.

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Before you start participating in forums please go through the forum guidelines, terms and conditions. Some of forums like digitalpoint will not allow you to create a signature until you have made a minimum of 10 posts. Even then you still need another 15 posts before you can start your own thread.

Use the search function on the forums to find a topic that interests you. Then get involved in the conversation. But before you waste your time on a forum or anywhere you want to leave a back-link, make sure they are do-follow sites.

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Some Examples and Case Studies on Forum Postings

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Are Forums better than Social Media?

Social Media Explorer is gearing up to launch our first-ever research report called The Conversation. For the first edition of this new approach to market research, we’ll be focusing on the banking industry.

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It should make some marketers and companies rethink their social media strategies. The report examined where the conversations about banks and the banking industry takes place online. The winner? Forums.

In the report they found that 90% of information about banks being discussed online is found on online forums. Social networks accounted for 1% of the real conversations about banking.

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“For many industries, forums are the home of the majority of consumer conversations.”

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Role of Forums in Health Industry

Online health communities and forums provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances.

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Eighteen percent of American adult Internet users currently go online to find health care information for themselves and their loved ones, with health searches one of the most popular uses of the Internet. Existing medical and health websites, such as WebMD and Health Cloud, have recognized that they will have more visitors if they offer interactive community features such as discussion or Internet forums.

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Online communities in healthcare

On one level, healthcare would seem to be an ideal area where online communities can add real value to professionals, patients, families and careers, friends and others.

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Mayo Clinic Blogs and Podcasts: The best online communities are often simple, providing a way to engage people around themes, topics and content that is relevant to them and you. For somebody like Mayo Clinic, this engagement is around their knowledge and expertise as healthcare providers.

AIDSPortal : AIDSPortal is a knowledge-sharing online community sponsored primarily by the UK’s Department for International Development and aimed at people who are working as part of the response to the global AIDS epidemic.

Novartis’s CFVoice: This online community is a great example of engaging different people in different ways – using interactive games as a way of younger audiences sharing their information, videos and personal stories for teens and the younger adults and discussion boards and forums for parents and carers.

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