Why Advertising Forums Don’t Work.
Why Advertising Forums Don’t Work.
“Free Advertising Forums” Oh my, i must join!
There are uncountable amounts of forums dedicated to pure advertising services on the internet at the moment. I have taken some time to develop some points in which why these Free Advertising forums do not work.
- “Our Members are Your Members” - As you see, many of these free advertisement forums say that their members are yours because once you submit your advert, they will join your board. Wrong! Think for yourself, when you join an advert. forum, do you actually take the time to check other peoples advertisements? No (In most cases), you simply register, post a specific number of posts to meet their requirements, submit your advert. and leave and never visit that forum again. This theory also applies to 70%-80%+ of the other members of the forum (my estimate).
- The Requirements for Advertising - Most of these free advertisement forums require you to post 10 non-spam posts etc. They say its a requirement but really its a necessity for their forum to survive. If visitors registered just to advertise their website/forum, the forum would have no activity what so ever. And while you spend so much time and effort to meet their requirements, believe me, from my past experiences, you will not gain any more than 10 dedicated clicks (MAX). I would suggest you to rather spend the time on signature advertising on active and related forums. Visit my Effective Signature Advertising guide for more information.
- Link Back to us, or we Decline! - So much for the FREE Advertising forum. Shouldn’t an advertising forum benefit your forum? not decrease the traffic and enforcing a link-back to them? Especially those services which require an affiliate button, this just damages the forums image. And if the forum requires their link to be in the footer etc, this means their link is displayed on every page while yours is buried within sub-forums on their board.
If the advertising forum you visit doesn’t comply with the 3 points i stated, then you have joined a true dedicated free promotion forum but if the advertising forum you visit complies with them, i would recommend you to spend your time wisely.
This is just a small personal rant on those free advertising forums.
Written by
Michael. W
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