Starting your own forum is a powerful way to generate targeted, highly converting traffic.
Forums are a lot of work to moderate and maintain, but if you keep your focus on a specific, narrow area, you're less likely to pick up hundreds of general-interest followers that you don’t want. You can add a forum to your site using a free script like phpBB – or you can even just have a private subscription area on your blog.
Yes, you'll have to interact regularly – but if you know how to get the ball rolling, eventually members become their own little support group and will happily answer questions and provide information to each other before you have time to read the posts. You can then mostly monitor, and only jump in when a word from you or a sign of your presence is needed; or they haven’t yet provided themselves with an answer.
The payoffs can be high indeed when it comes to generating targeted traffic – not just on your forum, but with the powerful “buzz” it will create in the internet marketing community as a whole!
That's today's traffic generation idea. Stay tuned for tomorrow's :-)
Until tomorrow,
Terry
