For anyone whos watched the movie Field of Dreams
The quote Build it and they will come always echoes
around their minds when they first get an online business
going.
So off they go learning everything they need to know about
html and images etc. And before long they have their site up
and running.
Then comes the disappointment, the lost hope and eventually
the despair! Each day and they check their hit counter or web stats
- they notice that the millions on the World Wide Web just
havent been along for a visit!
The sudden dawning and realization hits them that the
internet is not a Field of Dreams, and no-one is
coming. What follows is weeks or perhaps months of surfing
from one site to the next in order to find out how to get noticed…
how to get visitors to find their sites.
This usually leads on to excess money being spent on all
sorts of promised solutions, anything from buying traffic
that produces a swirl of hits appearing on their counters -
but unfortunately no sales (from totally non targeted pop
ups and the like) to paying out a fortune for someone to
Optimise their site - or even trying to learn SEO and
becoming lost in a maze of coding and slapping and bots!
Eventually our new webmasters learn that it costs a good
deal to generate truly targeted traffic in either time or
money resources … or they quit and give up their dreams.
And yet - they could have so easily found enough success
and targeted traffic if theyd only know or been told
where to look!
One such place is the growing number of forums available on
the net today!
Forum traffic can be a very effective and FREE source of
some of the most highly targeted forms of traffic.
available.
If a web master searches out forums relevant to the subject
matter of his or her website and becomes involved in these
forums, it doesnt take long before other forum users see
the signature strip in their posts.
(Thats the one or two lines at the bottom of each post
with a link to the posters website, that most forums
allow)
This then leads people who value the info being posted
about to follow those links to the website which, if the
right forums have been posted in, would contain more
valuable info on the subject.
Hence these visitors would be highly targeted to that
particular site and far more likely to become regular
visitors and potential customers.
As you can see just from this short article - there is
still a vast supply of FREE highly targeted traffic to be
had - if you know where to look.
So for the sake of your hit counter - do start visiting
forums and searching for more of them as soon as you can.
You never know what may happen, and youll have the
advantage of keeping hold of your cash for other forms of
promotions.
Remember
If you build it they will come - but you have to let
them know where to!
Cindy Battye
Cindy is a Webmaster specialising in FREE Forum Traffic
She currently has an eBook called ForumTrafficGold on sale
as a digital download
Its available from http:www.ForumTrafficGold.com
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