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Developing An
Integrated Forum Posting And Article Writing Strategy - PART TWO
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© by John
Baril
In
my previous article, I explained how it’s much more effective
for internet
marketers to see forum posting, web content, and syndicating out
articles as
part of a seamless, three step process:
In
this article, we will look at how you can develop a forum posting
strategy that
will help you produce unique content for your website and directory
articles.
Step 1. Forum
Posting Strategy.
Don’t
enter a forum and get side-tracked by all
the different conversations that are going on there. Your goal on any
forum
should be to contribute useful information that is related to your
niche
market. This helps you to build your reputation and increase the number
of
backlinks to your website.
The purpose
here is to develop and work with a
clear forum posting strategy.
Set a goal of
how many posts you want to make,
and choose a few forums to post in rather than just one. Five or six
posts per
day on three or four forums is sufficient. This means just one or two
posts per
forum per day. Give yourself 30 to 90 minutes to do this.
I’ll explain the
reason for this in a minute.
When entering a
forum, look for topic threads
and questions that relate to your niche and contribute to those
threads. Don’t
leave useless one-liners, but add something useful to the conversation
as the
thoughts occur to you.
If you have a
lot to say, say it even if it
takes twenty minutes or more. If you find several posts you can respond
to in
detail, you may want to make full use of the 90 minutes that you
allocated
yourself for forum posting. Remember, forum posting is not just about
backlinks, but it’s about your reputation.
The best way to
build up your reputation is to
take the time to contribute viable and valuable information to the
conversation
that people will appreciate, so don’t be afraid to devote
twenty minutes if
what you have to say is relevant to your market. However,
don’t over stay and
spend more than 90 minutes. You can always return to the forums another
day to
respond to threads and questions.
However, there
is another purpose behind this
practice of responding in detail to questions on relevant threads. The
purpose
is to help you generate ideas to use on other forums and in your
article
writing.
So, once you
have written a detailed reply to
one or two threads, move on to your next forum and use the information
you have
generated to either respond to a similar question or to start a new
thread of
your own. Don’t simply copy and paste your comments from one
forum to another
because someone will notice and flag you for it. Instead, say it all
again but
in a different way, adding some extra information as it occurs to you.
This is
a great way to move quickly from forum to forum and add valuable
content to
each one without taking too much of your own time.
This forum
posting method will also help you in
the next stage of our three-part strategy, mainly with writing unique
content
for your website.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
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