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Blog Marketing Through Forums

One method of marketing your blog is through forums. But forum marketing isn’t an “in your face” blatant advertising medium. In fact, in many forums, if you go in just posting marketing messages all over the place, you’ll get banned. That’s not what they’re there for.

Most forum moderators and participants see their forum as a community. They don’t want it bombarded by advertising messages. That’s what they go to the forum to get away from. People in forums are tired of being hit with advertising messages every five minutes – on TV, radio, billboards, magazine ads, you name it. Online they just want a place to relax and be themselves.

So how do you connect with people online? You join them in community. You enter the forum just like everyone else – as yourself. You can let your hair down and just be your grisly old self. But you are allowed a 2-3 line signature link in most forums. That allows you to link to your blog and/or website and as you carry on conversations with people, you’ll be marketing your business indirectly. Through forum marketing, you don’t need blatant advertising messages. You just need to be a real person who connects with real people.