how to promote forums - tips here

[stoneworth]

These link building tips focus more on the placement or the link insertion link, which lets you control the anchor text used. Some of these agreements with others, and others require action on your part.
1. Submit your site to web directories. The process is rather monotonous that you can get hundreds of backlinks, if you have time. An alternative would be to hire an applicant for manual directory. Here is a list of web directories you can use. You will also find some blog directories here.
2. Send press releases PR sites. A press release on the launch of your site May be rejected several PR websites, which distributes it to different outlets online news. A good way to get a free link. I recommend using PRWeb and PRLeap.
3. Reciprocal links to Web sites. It is important to choose sites that are very useful if you not only get links but traffic. Reciprocal linking can be useful from the beginning, but not too much. You can find the link by e-mail directly or through partners search webmaster forums.
4. Squidoo Lenses. A Squidoo is easy to create. It only takes about 15 minutes to create a brand, and you will be able to insert a bunch of anchor text links to your website with the contents of your feed. Hubpages is another similar site, you can use.
5. Article submissions. Creating a short article about your niche and submit them to article directories for backlinks and traffic. You can get more links, if your article is picked up and published on other websites. Here is a list of article directories, sorted by Alexa and PageRank.
6. Social Media profiles. There are many social websites online that allow you to insert a link to your website on the profile page. Sign up for some of them, preferably using a user name and your avatar, which marks the company or you as a person. This could be useful when you decide to promote your site through social site in the future.
7. Social Bookmarking / Voting Websites. Some polling Netscape social or Digg are often crawled by search engines and links with the help of a website indexed. 3spots has the largest list of social voting and bookmarking sites I’ve seen so far.
8. Forum Signatures. Sign up for a few forums in your niche and begin to contribute to ongoing discussions. Insert a link to the homepage or some inner pages of your site.
9. Create a theme or Widget. Pay a designer to the execution of an add-on application or a template that is linked to popular social networking website or a platform. Insert a link that points to your designated site.
10. Blogs on other platforms blog. Using the blogs that you have on other networks of blogs. Or set up different versions of your blog on the various blog networks like Wordpress.com, Blogger and Xanga. Link to specific web pages on your website.
11. Comment on other blogs. Early observations on the popular sites in your niche. It is not enough to spam for links, but focus on building a relationship with other bloggers as well.
12. Guest post on other blogs. Like the article and press releases, which means that content easily accessible, you can send in blogs in your niche. This is great to get relevant links and traffic.
13. Hold contests. Some Web sites often offer assistance to make the anchor text of links among bloggers. One example is the iPhone giveaway at the site of Gary Lee. Contests allow you to determine the anchor text, but its possible that too many links using the keywords designated May to be harmful to your domain.
14. Collaborative projects. You May need to develop a specific article for a writing project, or even a blog carnival, but it is usually a couple of backlinks, number and the generosity of the participants.
15. Give your expertise. This applies if you have a set of skills such as web design, writing, translation, or SEO. Write to a website set up and provide for the restructuring / optimization of their site in exchange for a mention of credit or a link on a webpage. This gives an excellent image, especially if your offer is made by a website with a decent audience. url removed.

[wanrom]

Deciding to create a forum is the easy part, promoting it can seem like the hardest part, that's for sure. Over the years I've started up many forums and the promotion of the forum is really what defines whether it becomes a success or not, because what's a forum with no members, topics or replies?
So, in this article I'd like to share with you a few tips on how to promote your forum. First of all, it's going to require a bit of action, the forum isn't exactly going to promote itself, so what you've got to do first and foremost is set some targets and strive to meet them.
In every forum promotion effort, when there's nobody on the forum at all, it's time to call your friends in, they can really help to start some engaging conversation which is always a necessity if you want anyone to make a registration and actually post a new topic or reply.
The next step, is to utilize social media, there's an absolutely golden opportunity in social media to get interested members to your forum.

[james786]

Hey these are really very nice tips. I think here are some most important point which helps us in promote a forum website.
First of all you need to submit your forum directory to various directories and also social bookmark them in various social networking sites.

Then post articles on few web pages and promote them.

Post few discussions on your forum and promote about those discussions on social networking sites.

[Coolvipcandy]

Thanks for sharing gr8 tips buddy.

[dvdv882]

Originally Posted by stoneworth

These link building tips focus more on the placement or the link insertion link, which lets you control the anchor text used. Some of these agreements with others, and others require action on your part.
1. Submit your site to web directories. The process is rather monotonous that you can get hundreds of backlinks, if you have time. An alternative would be to hire an applicant for manual directory. Here is a list of web directories you can use. You will also find some blog directories here.
2. Send press releases PR sites. A press release on the launch of your site May be rejected several PR websites, which distributes it to different outlets online news. A good way to get a free link. I recommend using PRWeb and PRLeap.
3. Reciprocal links to Web sites. It is important to choose sites that are very useful if you not only get links but traffic. Reciprocal linking can be useful from the beginning, but not too much. You can find the link by e-mail directly or through partners search webmaster forums.
4. Squidoo Lenses. A Squidoo is easy to create. It only takes about 15 minutes to create a brand, and you will be able to insert a bunch of anchor text links to your website with the contents of your feed. Hubpages is another similar site, you can use.
5. Article submissions. Creating a short article about your niche and submit them to article directories for backlinks and traffic. You can get more links, if your article is picked up and published on other websites. Here is a list of article directories, sorted by Alexa and PageRank.
6. Social Media profiles. There are many social websites online that allow you to insert a link to your website on the profile page. Sign up for some of them, preferably using a user name and your avatar, which marks the company or you as a person. This could be useful when you decide to promote your site through social site in the future.
7. Social Bookmarking / Voting Websites. Some polling Netscape social or Digg are often crawled by search engines and links with the help of a website indexed. 3spots has the largest list of social voting and bookmarking sites I’ve seen so far.
8. Forum Signatures. Sign up for a few forums in your niche and begin to contribute to ongoing discussions. Insert a link to the homepage or some inner pages of your site.
9. Create a theme or Widget. Pay a designer to the execution of an add-on application or a template that is linked to popular social networking website or a platform. Insert a link that points to your designated site.
10. Blogs on other platforms blog. Using the blogs that you have on other networks of blogs. Or set up different versions of your blog on the various blog networks like Wordpress.com, Blogger and Xanga. Link to specific web pages on your website.
11. Comment on other blogs. Early observations on the popular sites in your niche. It is not enough to spam for links, but focus on building a relationship with other bloggers as well.
12. Guest post on other blogs. Like the article and press releases, which means that content easily accessible, you can send in blogs in your niche. This is great to get relevant links and traffic.
13. Hold contests. Some Web sites often offer assistance to make the anchor text of links among bloggers. One example is the iPhone giveaway at the site of Gary Lee. Contests allow you to determine the anchor text, but its possible that too many links using the keywords designated May to be harmful to your domain.
14. Collaborative projects. You May need to develop a specific article for a writing project, or even a blog carnival, but it is usually a couple of backlinks, number and the generosity of the participants.
15. Give your expertise. This applies if you have a set of skills such as web design, writing, translation, or SEO. Write to a website set up and provide for the restructuring / optimization of their site in exchange for a mention of credit or a link on a webpage. This gives an excellent image, especially if your offer is made by a website with a decent audience. url removed.

Yes I agree with you in this thread, but what is connection in the forum promote? Forum posting is different and your thread has to become a How to work in SEO?