Many users start a new forum and get frustrated because they are the only member. We have composed a list of the top ways we suggest marketing your forum.

Press Release Submission - You must implement an optimized press release strategy which gets your forum in top ten results in Google News, Yahoo News and more of best rated News sites all over world.

Benefits - Widens the reach of your forum; Directly reaches millions of Internet users; Effective way towards publicity campaign through print media; Lays significant impact on search engine ranking; Raises search engine visibility; Increases traffic to your forum; Creates quality inbound links to your forum.

Automated Software: PR Wizard

Search Engine Submission - Any Search Engine places a forum depending on the quality of submission of information and keywords by the company. This is the key point and this is where it is important for you to implement a proper search engine submission strategy that is professionally designed according to your needs thus making a difference to your bottom line through online marketing.

Benefits - You must submit your forum to all the major search engines worldwide; You must have a professionally developed manual procedure for linking your forum to primary databases of all major search engines & directories; Quality submission of your forum while keeping in mind the targeted keywords which increases search engine ranking will promote huge traffic to your community.

Automated Software: SEO Suite

Article Submission - This is the submission of professionally written articles based on your keywords and forum to the most popular article sites. These articles must be well written, informative and interesting thus targeting the interested visitor to your forum and resulting in increased signups to your online community.

Benefits - You get original, informative & interesting articles on your forum; You must publish quality articles that are professionally written to boost search engine ranking; Hundreds/Thousands of permanent links directing to your forum are built.

Automated Software: Unique Article Wizard

Directory Submission - Web directory submission is the safest, easiest and most cost effective way to link your forum to the Internet. During this project your forum should be submitted to thousands of search engine friendly web directories. Yahoo, Google and MSN consider the listings within quality web directories as a valid source of back links, thus making your presence felt on the World Wide Web!

Benefits - The use of a manual submission strategy is important to make sure that your forum is properly submitted and to in the right category, which is not possible with automated systems. The most important thing to be considered in the submission of forums is the type of the directories where it reaches. It is important to submit your forum to not only popular directories but also to ones that are in the same niche. The quality of directories is as important as the number. So, always remember both the quality and quantity of your directory submissions. Links that are permanent increase the traffic on your forum along with the search engine ranking of the site. By using this method you get linked permanently with sites which in turn increases your backlinks and improves the ranking of your forum.

Automated Software: SubmitEaze

Social Bookmarking - Social BookMarking is tagging URLs directly on your forum on the net so that you can share with the online community. In simple words it’s a process of saving web pages to public websites and tagging them with keywords so that they can refer to it quickly when needed. It serves as a fantastic way to store, search, organize and manage bookmarks of the web pages on the Internet. Most professional marketers submit their forums to the top 50 social bookmarking websites.

Benefits - Bookmarking is one of the most convenient tools for making sure that your forum is marketed and exposed in the right circle. Social Bookmarking sites are very high traffic driving destinations, which make your site appear in high traffic once included. This exposure of social network gains a high ranking for your forum through search engines.

Automated Software: Bookmarking Demon

Blog Posting - Blog, as we all know are an online journal or diary where people can share their thoughts, ideas and opinions. Today, blogs are one of the best ways to convey any message as they are created well ahead of the news. The search engines also give preference to it and that is why we also consider it as a strong tool for marketing. You need to post well-composed comments on behalf of your forum on more than thousands of blogs with a backlink to your forum.

Benefits - Blog Posting helps to attract a good flow of traffic to your forum. Adding information on blogs on a regular basis ensures regular visits by search engine too. Blog posting gives back links to your forum that improve your pagerank as well as search engine ranking. Quality, as we say, is something that must really matter to you. This is why you must ensure that your submissions are done keeping in mind the contents and relevancy of your forum.

Automated Software: Blog Comment Demon

Forum Posting - There are many business benefits to be realized by including a forum on your website. A forum is an area where individuals can converse on a regular basis about different topics and ideas as well as discuss your services and products. Advertising your forum on another forum that is within the same niche as yours can bring a lot of traffic to your own forum. A forum will have repeated traffic because individuals must return to your site to take part in the forum, and thus will look around your site at their leisure.

Benefits - This will not only enhance your visibility on the net but also your forum will appear in top ranking for specific keywords. The keywords and tags used in searches in Yahoo, MSN, Google etc. will show your forum post, thus striking the visitors of your reliability which in turn will increase traffic to your own forum.

Automated Software: XRumer

Link Building - Link Popularity is the number of links pointing to your forum from other websites on the Web. Generally Search Engines consider your forum important and rank it high in Search Engine Result pages on the basis of these links. Link building improves the search engine ranking of your forum if done in specific ways. Another important benefit of link building is that a part of your forum embedded deep in your forum stands good chance of being indexed by the search engines. Besides an improved Search Engine Ranking there are certain other benefits that your forum will derive from this campaign including page ranking, attracting direct traffic and wider search engine coverage etc.

Benefits - Link building contains all the benefits of the above techniques. The techniques listed are all ways in which you can build the maximum number of lengths to your forum; therefore, increasing the number of views your forum will receive!

Automated Software: Link Assistant

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