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Yahoo! Glue looks like an interesting new search tool. Enter a topic and it returns images, videos, articles and the conventional search results all on one page.
Despite Yahoo’s trials and tribulations on the stock market, they still run very good web based tools. Flickr (photo sharing), Delicious (boomarks) and Upcoming (events) are all the best websites in their category.
This article on Sitepoint makes some interesting points about how participating in forums can help drive high quality traffic to your website.
Visitors who find you this way are more likely to be active seekers of information, community minded and engaged. They are also likely to have visited your website because they liked your contributions and are eager to learn more about you.
Firstly, concentrate on being active in two or three forums. Any more, and you will not be sufficiently active or focused.
Also, choose a forum in which you can contribute expertise and where your target audience might be.
Once you have selected your forums, build your profile, add a link to your website and be active.
You need to build your reputation and you can do this via your expertise, by offering something different, by being polite and being constructive. Avoid negativity and self promotion as it will only reflect badly on you.
If you would like more advice on forums, please contact me and I will be happy to help.
