How to Build Links from Forums

Hey everyone. In this Article, I am going to be covering how forums can be used to drive traffic to your site and to build links. I will be explaining how you can find dofollow forums, and some tips you should follow while posting in these forums, to maximize the traffic and link juice your receive.

The Basic Process:

• Register for accounts on relevant dofollow forums which allow links in the signature.
• Add links to your site in the signature.
• Post in the forum threads. Each post results in backlinks to your site.

The Forum Posting Process in Detail:

1. Find Relevant Forums. Do this by either:
   1. Using Google. Use one of the following search phrases:
      1. “your niche keyword” + forum
      2. “your niche keyword” inurl:forum
      3. vbulletin your niche keyword
      4. phpbb your niche keyword
      5. inurl:showthread.php your niche keyword
      6. inurl:viewtopic your niche keyword
      7. “your niche keyword” and then click on show options>forums
   2. Browsing through Bigboards, a forum directory.
2. Check to make sure that the forum allows dofollow links in signatures -  Do this by going to a thread, and checking whether the signature links are dofollow using easyComment. For a guide on using easyComment, read this post. In case your are doing forum posting for traffic, this step doesn’t matter. In that case, look for large forums, which are very active.
3. Join the forum and Fill in your profile – Add an avatar, a short bio and add links to your site in the signature.
4. Stay involved in the forum – Make a couple of posts a week. Each post earns you backlinks to your site, and should result in some traffic to the links when visitors click on them.

Use of Forum Posting

• Forum Posting does help with seo, but it doesn’t bring about too drastic results. This is because most forums have serious SEO issues such as, ugly URLs, duplicate content, too many outgoing links, etc.
• Forum Posting is great for driving targeted traffic to your site.

Forum Posting Tips:

• Be Human! Make relevant replies to threads. Share your opinions.
• Follow the rules of the forum.
• Dont Spam. Make insightful posts, as 10 quality posts are better than 100’s of one-liners. The quality posts will receive attention, and will result in more click-throughs. Also, the one-liners could get deleted and could result in you being labeled as a spammer and banned.
• Read and reply to the sticky threads. They generally have high pr, and they are viewed frequently, so the chances of traffic increase.
• Be polite, grammatically correct, and try to solve others doubts. This helps increase your reputation in the forum and helps you get branded as a “guru”, which should result in more click-throughs to your site.
• Make sure you signature link’s anchor text is rich in keywords, and is compelling, so that people want to click on them. Also, if possible style them, so that they stand out.
• Another good way to get links and traffic is, if you have written an article relevant to a forums topic, to start a new thread in the forum, with a summary of your article, and then saying: “to read the complete article visit here.”

Also, you can look for dofollow forum lists to make your job easier. Check this, this and this. I don’t know how accurate they are, though I will try compiling a list in the future.

Thats about it. I hope you found this post helpful. Please feel free to ask any questions and share your input via the comments. If you found this post helpful, please share it through your favorite social networking sites.

Tags: backlinks, dofollow, dofollow forums, forum posting, Link Building

Category: Link Building