My second report explained the importance of on-page optimization and my third report explain the importance of off-page optimization, using link building strategies. This report will tell you more about proper linking and automatic linking.

Proper Linking
Although Link Building can promote your free forum, bring more traffic, and get you good placement in Google search engine, link building can be a time consuming strategy. If you do not understand the world of linking you can spend hours and hours submitting your link to directories and forums.

Example:
You submit your link to a directory that has a page ranking by google of (1). Did you know that in order for your free forum to even get a page ranking of 1, you would have to submit to 1,000 PR1 directories or forums. I advise that you try and link to only PR3 and higher sites, because the effort you have to put in will be worth the time.

Automatic Linking

This procedure can only be used if you register for a free forum

Using Free Forum Forums, your free forum will be automatically placed on 100 PR 3 webpages.

In many circumstances, your Internet business will need changes to be made on the site fairly quickly. Therefore, it’s only reasonable to assume that your webmaster can keep up with the demand of the job. For example, you may be doing a product launch, and you desperately need the site to be up by a certain date. So your webmaster needs to get things organized – setup the graphics, setup the emails, etc. All must be completed within the time frame. Otherwise, you will get a lot of complains from angry customers.

So let’s talk a little bit about the role of the webmaster in your Internet business. What exactly is he (or she) responsible for in your Internet business? There are no standard answers for a question like this. It all depends on your agreement with your webmaster. And your agreement depends on the needs of your Internet business. So to re-frame the question, it would be better to ask what does your Internet business need?

Graphics work.
Obviously, all websites need to be updated with the latest graphics. Graphics can be logos, photos, posters, and so on. These need to be posted on the website on a regular basis. If your webmaster is too busy with other stuff, such tasks can be outsourced. Of course, your webmaster will still need to supervise the work and stay on top of things.

Development work.
Webmasters should also be competent when it comes to coding. There are many different types of web programming languages on the Internet – PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, CFM, etc. The most popular is PHP. Make sure that the webmaster you hire is familiar with the language that you are currently using on your website.

Development work means working on bugs on the website and coming up with new features. As you can see, there is never ending work for new features. So it’s easy to overload your webmaster with too much work. The key here is to stay organized. Make a weekly plan to roll out the features, and work on them one at a time. That way, it’s easier to have quality control, and the work gets done.

Maintaining the website.
This is another key area that your webmaster should be in charge of. Maintaining a website means keeping everything ship shape. If there is a broken link, fix it. If there are spam emails coming from the site, work on it. If there are trouble makers posting nonsense on the forum, ban them.

Professional webmasters provide quality services that cover all the above areas. You can easily hire a webmaster from an online webmaster forum. Such community sites are where webmasters hang out, and you can easily pick up a few good webmasters from there.

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1. Home Business

You will be allowed to set up a signature file in most discussion forums. Think of this as a small classified ad where you reveal a little bit about yourself and your products.

You want this to be informative yet create curiosity. Your real goal is to get people to click on the link to your website to go and look at what home business you’re making money in.

You will not be able to get people to click on a link to your website until you become a valued member of the discussion. The only way to do that is to offer viable information in various threads without spamming your business opportunity in the body of the post.

2. Joint Ventures

The longer you hang around a discussion forum the more you become a known entity. You will also get to develop relationships with other Internet marketers who have similar business interest to yours.

This creates a tremendous opportunity for you to do joint ventures and make money together. Many discussion forums brag about how many millions of dollars have been earned just by joint ventures formed at their forum.

3. List Building

You should always be thinking about list building when it comes to making money on the Internet. If you have a home business then understand that you have to get names and email addresses for future follow up online.

The traffic that you get from discussion forms can be excellent prospects for your list. Therefore you want to have a sign up form on every web page and every blog page that you have.

You may even want to include a link to your landing page in your signature file. This allows people to directly join your mailing list before being redirected to your website.

4. Sell Information

If people like the information that you are offering for free, they may be willing to buy more in depth information. This is a great way to make money using forum marketing because you offer snippets of information that lead people to want to know more about what you are talking about.

When they come to your website you should have links to products that you sell or reports that you’ve created that you sell to. When they buy these you earn a commission and have just made more money doing forum marketing.

Hopefully these tips have been useful to you. There are many ways to make money with forum marketing, and these are four that have proven to be successful in the past.

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Internet forums are also commonly referred to as Web forums, message boards, discussion boards, electronic discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, or simply forums. Messages within sub-forums are displayed either in chronological order or as threaded discussions. Discussion forums are also referred to as “threaded discussion lists” or “bulletin boards”.

Forums differ from chat rooms and instant messaging in that forum participants do not have to be online simultaneously to receive or send messages. Forum etiquette can vary on different forums and they have become a common feature on many websites. They can be “closed” or “open” in terms of membership.

“Closed” means an administrator decides who can participate, while “open” means anyone can sign on to the forum. Forum categories represent a collection of forums as well as other categories. They are the areas where individual discussions take place as a listing of topics. Posts are easy to search and to read through. You can find just the posts you want very easily.

One significant difference between forums and electronic mailing lists is that mailing lists automatically deliver new messages to the subscriber, while forums require the member to visit the website and check for new posts.

Because members may miss replies in threads they are interested in, many modern forums offer an “e-mail notification” feature, whereby members can choose to be notified of new posts in a thread, and web feeds that allow members to see a summary of the new posts using aggregator software. Client software aggregators are installed applications designed to collect Web feed subscriptions and group them together using a user friendly interface.

Users sometimes post versions of a message that are only slightly different, especially in forums where they aren’t allowed to edit their earlier posts. Multiple posting instead of editing prior posts can artificially inflate a user’s post count.

In many forums which have editing allowed they have rules asking people not to make multiple posts, and also use a common plug-in to merge double posts, without an administrator/moderator having to manually delete or merge the posts. You do have to Register for many features and functions such as E-Mail Digests, Notification of New Posts and/or Threads, Personal Messaging and downloading of Post Attachments for them to work.

As crazy as the forums are, it is a real community builder that I doubt will ever be replaced. In order for forums to disappear entirely you would need something just as effective to replace them. Forums are a place where users of all types come together to discuss issues, trivial or serious. They are just what the word means, a place to gather ideas from varying and differing points of view, and it’s OK if not everyone agrees.

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