Bath Web Designer

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. 

So, what is the best advice for becoming involved in a forum? 

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.

Here is an interesting article from Freelance Switch, about how you could build a blog subscription service. I particularly like the Venn diagram showing the types of content that could be free or paid for.

Supplementing Your Freelance Career With Blogging and Expert Content.

Monty Don in his new role as President of the Soil Association on how to get the message across, as reported in todays Guardian:

You don’t stand on the podium with a loud hailer telling people what you do, which the British absolutely hate. You’ve got to somehow get under the skin of the system and make lots and lots of small changes.