Depending on which niche you have chosen, you will be looking at web properties that have lots of people every day in that niche. In the Internet marketing niche, you can use high trafficforums such as the Warrior Forum, Digital Point. Because a substantial number of people interested in online marketing *hang around* at these web properties, they are some of the best places to look for members. Because of spammer activity in the past, oft times Forums are sensitive in terms of how you advertise in them, so keep reading.
The most common manner to use Forums commercially without paying for the privilege involves using some net etiquette. We suggest that you signup, read a few existing posts to get the flavor of the conversations, then add to the ongoing conversations without leaving a signature. Just comment meaningfully.
After a day or two or when others comment on your comments, go back into your profile and add a sig that includes just one of your web properties. Keep being a good citizen by commenting and answering questions, then perhaps later, add another web link ( if you wish to ) inside your forum signature. This sig appears underneath every comment that you make, so twenty comments per day on ten sites gives you 20 more ways that people can find your site and your material.
In addition to using sig links and creating special offers, you can broker JV deals with the forum owner, or purchase banner ads. The point is that forums are potentially a huge place to inhabit for instant traffic generation.
Another thing you can do is advertise with a ppc “pay per click” engine like Yahoo Search marketing. You will be able to target your chosen keywords. Picking keywords consisting of just one word is typically too broad to do much good and the commercial intent of most one word keywords is far too low to be useful for a membership site. Try using 3 or 4 word ( called long tail) phrases that have low competitiveness and less than 1000 monthly searches. Pay Per Click is a good option because feed back is sometimes near immediate and adjusting your landing page or ad based on the feedback can be scientific and need not subjective.
Seo is definitely an area that you want to look at rather closely. Sales pages can rank for certain key terms but more often than not content-based pages do significantly better in terms of serps(Search engine Results Pages). For that reason, you should create articles that relate to the niche that your membership website focuses on. Allow the resource box of those articles to link back to your conversion page, because they will be search engine bait and can help you get more members.
You might be able to take advantage of other sites out there. Article marketing works really well and you can get the dual benefits of potential clients who look at the article directories, and those times where your article itself ranks highly in the search engines for your desired search terms.
Some of the best things in the world are free and the web has a few of these too. Free sites such as Twitter.com, Hubpages.com and Wordpress.com are the best free website builders available. You can quickly and easily create pages that will direct potential members to your sales page. You’ll also get the benefit of getting back links to your website from sites hosting your content, and the material that you put on these high PR public sites may rank highly on its own as well.
To Your Membership Site Success!!
Trevor Weir
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