I often get asked "how can I jumpstart traffic to my website or blog, I have heard about social marketing and forums, but I am so afraid of coming across as a spammer, I have even heard of people being banned from forums because of ignorance."

I have been able to show them how it is to done properly. Over the months I must of had hundreds of these types of queastions.

Quick & Easy Forum Marketing Two of the easiest ways of triggering and generating traffic to your website and blogs is through forum marketing and social marketing.

Not only will you be able to claim your share of traffic but these platforms provide you with the opportunity to quickly build brand awareness, so that you are recognized as an authority in your market. With forums, you will need to spend time providing quality information to the community, as well as helping members by addressing questions, offering guidance, and doing your best to contribute to the network, but it’s one of the easiest ways to jumpstart your website, absolutely free

Allocate 1 hour a day to marketing your business via community forums, but make sure to promote INDIRECTLY! You want your website to be seen within your forum’s signature box, rather than in spamming your link within discussion threads or posts, otherwise you’ll lose your account and likely end up banned from the community.

You also want to focus only on active, established forums, keeping in mind that your posts will be quickly indexed, sending additional traffic to your website from the search engines directly. Make sure to optimize your forum profile as well! This is a great way to generate authority backlinks to your website, so include information about you, and a direct link to your website! Now in the past, backlinks played a big part in the ranking system but the search engines like google regard social media now a major influence in site ranking, the more your site is being spoken about through social media the better.

You can locate relevant forums and search for available community boards by entering in keywords relating to your market or by browsing through available categories.

Social Marketing Willing to engage your target audience, and spend some time interacting and socializing in exchange for high quality traffic? Social marketing is for you!

With social marketing, you are able to take a personal approach to connecting with your target audience, and in doing so, you can gain a better feel for what your audience is genuinely interested in and what motivates them into taking action.

The downside to social marketing is that it can be time consuming, as you have to update your profile accounts, status updates and send out messages and broadcasts in order to keep your accounts fresh. If you have a blog then One way of automating your account updates is by subscribing to the free services that will automatically update multiple social profiles at once, and provide you with the opportunity to schedule future updates, so your accounts can stay active and fresh even when you aren’t around!

All the best