Affiliate Compass - Spending 30 minutes a day in forums can be time well

Spending 30 minutes a day in forums can be time wellspent. Why? Because it can make you money and ifyou enjoy helping people, this is an excellent place toshare your knowledge.Most forums allow you to post your “signature” belowyour name (look for the place where you edit yourprofile in the menu). This is not literally your namesignature, but should be active anchor text links to yoursite(s) in order to obtain the maximum benefit.32Almost every single “helpful” post you do could get youat least 3 or 4 click throughs to your sites – When youdo it! Over the “life” of the post you can usually gethit (spidered) by the search engines if the forum is SEOfriendly, and then get several more clicks.We did a test with one of our sites a few months ago.We ONLY linked to the site in forums and had it set upso the Search Engines would NOT index it (via therobots.txt file).After 30 days we had over 1700 unique visitors.Remember, this was only spending about 30 minutes inforums a day. It’s important that you spend that timeparticipating instead of just promoting though. Manyforum owners, while allowing your signature to beplaced in your posts, frown upon direct promotionsunless they have a particular area set up specifically foradvertising.One of the major benefits of the traffic you receive fromForums is that actually helped someone and havetherefore already built a relationship with them, andthey you. Please don’t be one of those confrontationaljerks. If you’re genuinely helpful and do forum postingon a regular basis, it really can be your main method ofpromotion and traffic generation.If you’re not experienced in forum posting, you mightnot be aware of some of the more popular forums orforums that are search engine friendly. Here is a shortlist to get you started and expose you to the differentforum formats used: