Today I have a tip that I’m forwarding on from a fellow marketer, Frank Hayword.
Here we go.
It’s a tip to get lots of backlinks easily via forums.
You register on a forum, go to your user control panel, and then
enter just two backlinks in your sig (signature) section. You
DON’T need to make a post, just register and add your backlinks in
your sig using either HTML or bbcode depending on the forum.
The next time that search engines hit the site and crawl it, your
backlinks will be found via the members directory.
Easy huh? And you can leave it at that if you want to.
You may be thinking that this is spam, but well… it’s borderline
and I think it’s okay as nobody ever has to see the links, just
the search engines.
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However…
If you want to go a little further, and leave a couple of USEFUL
comments too (I can’t stress this enough) on an existing post,
then that’s fine.
But for goodness sake, don’t make it a “me too” post. Make sure
your comment actually adds to the thread and is helpful in some way,
and is at least a couple of paragraphs.
(The same goes for blog commenting.)
It won’t get deleted, and you help someone. The universe is happy
with the trade and so is the forum owner.
The benefit is that there are some threads on posts that can end up
getting decent PR (if you’re worried about such things), and the
idea is your backlinks will carry more weight.
But if you *do* decide to this, you do have to take a little bit
more care.
It’s usually a good idea to register, make your comments, wait a
week, and then log back in and add your sig in the control panel.
Most forum software will then auto-add the sig to all your posts.
It’s a good way of getting backlinks and is used by all marketers
in the know.
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But registering with forums can take a little time to fill in all
the fields. Even if it only takes you a minute or two, wouldn’t
it be better if you could shave that down to seconds?
That’s where Roboform comes in.
Roboform will remember all your passwords and details against
different identities you create, and then auto-fill fields in
forms for you.
Click-click-done.
It takes seconds instead of minutes.
You can also get a Roboform2Go licence
which will work with a USB drive so you can carry it around with
you. VERY useful.
It’s something I’ve been meaning to buy myself for ages, but never
got around to. I’ve instead been relying on my browser to remember
my passwords where security isn’t an issue, and keeping the rest in
my head or in an encrypted text document for reference when I need
it.
Yeah daft in a way I know, but you get into these habits and they
tend to stick.
Now at last with Roboform I won’t have to worry again about
passwords, registering on web sites, etc as all the fields will be
retained and filled in for me.
I hope this has all been useful for you, and you can get Roboform
from here:-
-Frank Haywood
