The Honest Way

The Honest Way has its own forum, which is steadily growing in popularity all the time with more new members signing up and getting to know one another.

So this post is about forums. It’s not just to plug our own forum - but if you are interested there is a link on the navigation bar at the top of this page - but to highlight the fact that forums are an important tool in the promotion and marketing of your online business, website or blog.

There are many forums around that are specifically centred around the Internet Marketing and Work at Home theme, so you have a vast choice before you. I don’t want to be influencing that choice either, because ultimately everyone is different and therefore one forum may suit one person and not another.

But what I will say here is that you should join a few forums and get busy posting useful and interesting comments and make sure the link to your site is in your signature. That way you will not only create many useful one-way links to your site, but increase the exposure of yourself in your great writing technique and knowledge imparted and increase the exposure of your site. That’s because when you write great posts people will be impressed enough to click your link to visit your site to see what else you are writing about.

So forums are important too!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

I shouldn’t need to go into too much detail about what forum signatures are - they are simply a place where you can write your name and add a link and they are displayed at the bottom of all your forum posts. This is different from posting links in your actual forum posts, which is taken a dim view of and could get you outright banned an most of the better forums.So forum “sigs” are the place to promote yourself.

There is more to it than simply that. Of course, your posts should be as interesting as possible, because you will want the members of that forum to read your posts in order that you will gain their respect. Then there is every chance they will click on your links out of curiosity.

But the whole point of this short article is a greater use for those signature links. At least for the owners of websites and blogs (which, let’s face it is just about all of us).

I’ve seen it in countless forums, new members join, try their best to write decent posts and as often as possible but they let themselves down by doing something which I think is pointless.

They use up all their allocated signature space by placing a bunch of affiliate links.

Why is that bad?

Because they are missing out on a golden opportunity to improve the page rank of their website or blog.

Let me explain. You own a website or blog and naturally want to promote it. On your site you promote your affiliate products to make sales and make money - generating an income from your site. The more popular your website becomes, the more traffic it will get and the more sales it will have the potential to generate. Right?

Right! One way of raising the importance of your website or blog for that matter is by procuring a decent page rank from the search engines. And let’s not beat about the bush here. You want the best page rank you can get from Google. It means everything.

The best way to improve your page rank is to acquire lots of one-way backlinks from high PR sites.

Some of the top forums are high PR sites. To obtain one-way backlinks from forums, guess what you have to do? Write and submit your posts with the link to your website or blog in the signature!

The more posts you make, the more one-way backlinks you generate to your website. That’s if you have a link to your website in your signature.

Has the penny dropped?

Don’t waste the space in your sig with affiliate links (giving the sales page of the vendor all those juicy one-way backlinks). Put your site first. Your affiliate links are already on your site and that’s where you’ll make most sales from! The higher your page rank, the more sales.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

          

Hi,

I just got wind of a new forum that has been created to address a big problem that occurs in many other forums. That of bad advice.

There are many good forums dedicated to the business of Internet Marketing and they have lots of good, active, knowledgeable members who are only too happy to help out the newer members and those needing advice and guidance. Unfortunately, there are some members of forums who, in their enthusiasm to impress their peers, or just plain want to be helpful, that mistakenly offer the wrong advice on some things. It’s not usually malicious or intended, but most often simply misguided or erroneous, but can end up with the recipient of that advice making a bad decision and compromising their fledgling online business.

So to address this problem, respected online marketer Robert Puddy has created a new Expert’s Forum. This has been set up with ten very well respected and knowledgeable people in different fields from the world of Internet Marketing as mentors and moderators. These people will monitor all posts to make sure any advice given is correct and honest. They will also give their own advice freely to members.

There is a price for this valuable membership. At present, the cost is $10 for the first 1000 members. After that it goes up (doesn’t it always!)

For that, you get expert mentoring, information and advice for a full year plus NO spammers will get in simply because you cannot bypass the registration system - to join and post you have to be a paid member and spammers won’t pay period.

So if you want to get the best in advice and give your own internet business the best possible start by rubbing shoulders with the top people in the business AND being able to network with the best (that includes the possibilities of top notch JVs etc), then sign up today!

Don’t wait for the price to go up (unless you want to)! Here’s the link:

Learn from the EXPERT’s Forum

I’ll see you there!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

          

Hi everyone,

This is a short note just to let you know that this poor old host has been having a few minor computer problems of late that have kept me offline over the last few days. Glitches in the works have caused a few problems that have now been sorted out, so I should be back to normal now.

My apologies to the members of the forum for not being there but if you take a look now, you’ll see I’ve posted a couple of replies already.

Which leads me nicely onto forums. I’m a member of quite a few different forums as I enjoy participating and they’re great places to learn the tricks of the trade as well as to keep up to date with what’s happening in the world of Internet Marketing.

They also give me a chance to promote this site, blog and forum via links in my signatures and hopefully tempt new readers to this blog and new members to The Honest Way Forum. There is a section for articles and in there is an article I wrote a short while ago on the benefits of forums. So if you’re reading this and you haven’t been over to see the forum yet, why not follow one of the links and sign up today. There is already a nice group of people there and it’s growing all the time.

See you there!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way