There are also some very good and active blog specific message boards. You will want to make a point of joining and participating on them.
Blogger Talk
Blogger Forum
Forum4Bloggers
Yahoo Blogging Community Free membership required
About.com Weblog Forum
To join most message boards, you will have to register as a member. The membership process usually requires you to provide a user name. You may use your real name, or if you prefer, you can create a fictional pen name, called a "handle". You will be required to provide a valid e-mail address for communications.
Some forums require some additional personal information, to protect the message board, from those who might wish to destroy their online community. Your information is almost universally protected by a password. Once you have that information in place, and had your membership approved and confirmed, you are almost ready to post.
You are not quite ready yet, however. You still have a few things to do, in order to have your message board postings help market and promote your business and your blog.
In order to gain new visitor traffic, develop a solid reputation, and gain search engine optimization benefits, you must create what is known as a signature file, or "sig line". Not all forums allow one, so be sure to check in advance of creation.
What a signature file does, is create a live link back to your website, from the message forum itself. That link into your website is very important.
The signature file for your link should not simply be your website's URL. If at all possible, avoid that type of signature as it doesn't describe your business. It also provides less than the desired level of search engine optimization. Using your blog title is better, but still is not what you want to use.
Use a your targeted keyword phrase as your signature. If you can use the keywords, right in the live link, that is the best possible signature. It provides a keyword inbound link to your website. Note, however, not all forum links have search engine benefits, as they are sent through redirects. The search engines themselves may not be giving them any weight any longer either. Use signature file keywords with that possibility in mind.
Blogger Talk
Blogger Forum
Forum4Bloggers
Yahoo Blogging Community Free membership required
About.com Weblog Forum
To join most message boards, you will have to register as a member. The membership process usually requires you to provide a user name. You may use your real name, or if you prefer, you can create a fictional pen name, called a "handle". You will be required to provide a valid e-mail address for communications.
Some forums require some additional personal information, to protect the message board, from those who might wish to destroy their online community. Your information is almost universally protected by a password. Once you have that information in place, and had your membership approved and confirmed, you are almost ready to post.
You are not quite ready yet, however. You still have a few things to do, in order to have your message board postings help market and promote your business and your blog.
In order to gain new visitor traffic, develop a solid reputation, and gain search engine optimization benefits, you must create what is known as a signature file, or "sig line". Not all forums allow one, so be sure to check in advance of creation.
What a signature file does, is create a live link back to your website, from the message forum itself. That link into your website is very important.
The signature file for your link should not simply be your website's URL. If at all possible, avoid that type of signature as it doesn't describe your business. It also provides less than the desired level of search engine optimization. Using your blog title is better, but still is not what you want to use.
Use a your targeted keyword phrase as your signature. If you can use the keywords, right in the live link, that is the best possible signature. It provides a keyword inbound link to your website. Note, however, not all forum links have search engine benefits, as they are sent through redirects. The search engines themselves may not be giving them any weight any longer either. Use signature file keywords with that possibility in mind.
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