Dot Com Note

Free forums provide an excellent opportunity to develop backlinks. Backlinks are essentials for generating organic traffic from search engines.  Don’t start your link building campaign using link exchanges. They are the most in effective methods and search engines frown manual as well as automated link exchanges.

While there are many ways to build incoming links to your site or blog posts, using forums for generating backlinks is one of the proven method. Following the seven steps discussed below, you will be able to start your forum-based link building campaign without using any reciprocal links.

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1. Create the right mind set. Don’t start your campaign by spamming every forum you come across during your online hours. You will soon find your link building campaign falling apart.  People will pile on you hateful comments. You will also loose the privilege of using the forums.

Free forums are for sharing and giving. Create a mind set of giving your knowledge to others for free without expecting anything in return. As a result, you will receive wonderful rewards indirectly.

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During the early days of the web when I ran adult sites, traffic was plenty and a few software and scripts made my life easy. Once in a week I visited a few adult webmaster forums for getting all the knowledge and skills I needed to make money online while sleeping. Things have changed a lot. Now the competition is fierce. You need knowledge, skills and hard work to generate a decent online income.

I am lucky that even today my non-adult sites create a decent income but I am sure I can’t retire from my regular job on that income. I need to take some bold steps and make a quantum leap to increase my online incomes by four folds.

I generate a small amount of affiliate incomes, all from clickbank.com, by throwing a few banners in my sites. I do realize that besides traffic, ad optimization by testing and measuring is very important to maximize incomes. However, it takes a lot of time.

I have been spending a lots of time reading blogs about keywords, different channels for affiliate marketing, landing pages, etc. I am also frequenting a webmaster forum (forums.digitalpoint.com) to learn what is going on in today’s online marketing.

I used to wonder why there were so many web directories. I don’t go to a web directory to search for any thing. I don’t know who goes to a web directory for their searches. I even don’t know anybody going to dmoz.com, supposed to be the best in its class, for searches.

Now I know why there are so many web directories. They give you back links to your site for a price and they hawk their services using some thing called PR - Point & Research. Oops, I am wrong. It is Page Rank. Had I known this directory business a few years ago, I would have started 15 web directories. Oh well, I missed my opportunity.

Then there are digg bosses, stumble upon exchanges, publishing articles in 40 blog networks for $10, useless traffic to your site for ranking high in Alexa so that you can sale text links. I did not know that people are selling text links. I thought that only Google did that. And there are a scores of other techniques. Lots to learn. My head hurts.

I am learning slowly but I need to jump start my online income fast. How do I do that? People are generating monthly six-figure incomes from affiliate marketing. That’s what I need to do to become super rich. Gotta go for my forum visit.