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Although there are many ways of getting traffic to your website, there are a few old-fashioned methods that stand out and always work for me.

I’m going to share with you one of those tried and true methods, and that is called forum marketing. This still remains one of the best ways to drive highly targeted traffic to your website. There are many businesses earning six figures annually that have been built on participating in forums.

Before joining a forum there are several things you need to know in order to make it a profitable and enjoyable experience.

The first thing you should do is make sure that the forum is active. In order to find out whether the forum is active or not, go to Google and search for “your keyword,” +forum. So let’s say you’re advertising a tatoo removal product. You would go to Google and type in the words, “Tattoo removal forums,” “Tattoo Forums,” etc. 

Once a list of forums show up on the search engine, go to several forums and see how many members that each forum has, when was the last post, and how many different topics are listed on that forum.

If the forum is active, then you would see that the last post would be either the current date or the day before. Anything prior to that, I usually don’t bother. I like to deal with forums with a large number of members and ones where there are daily posts.

Despite the fact that you can earn a six-figure income with your niche websites using forums, you must follow certain rules in order to be successful. you must read the forum’s rules and regulations before you start making any posts. Most forums don’t allow you to directly advertise and they all have their own rules. That’s why it’s extremely important that you read those rules before posting on any forum.

Spamming a forum is an absolute no, no. Don’t send people directly to your affiliate programs or flat out encourage people to click on your signature link. Please don’t put your link directly in your post. Keep it in the signature. 

If the administrator of the forum sees that you’re spamming the forum by posting your links all over the place you will be banned from that forum. Another rule I follow is, once you sign up with a forum make sure you read the posts and contribute at least 5-10 thorough, very informative post. Then I would take a break, rinse and repeat every other day. Remember, don’t just post comments in one day and disappear. 

You can also get banned from a forum for “yelling” at other forum participants, or not respecting other people’s opinions. You must learn how to conduct yourself in a forum by not “firing off at the mouth.” What I mean by that is you must be careful of not being offensive or even using offensive language towards another participant. Be as straightforward as you can without being abusive or rude, even if you disagree on a comment made.

So How Do I Really Make Money From Forums?

You make money from forums by using your signature link effectively. When you post in a forum you must make sure that your signature, which is a little advertisement about your business has a benefit attached to it. 

Since this is usually the only place on a forum where you’re allowed to advertise your business, affiliate products, and services, you must make sure that you show the readers, “what’s in it for them.” Without that benefit for the readers, you are just wasting valuable space in your signature line because you would hardly get any clicks to your offer, website, or blog.

Here’s a forum signature example that would get a high click through rate:
[url=http://www.MiniMealWeightLoss.com]“Discover The Amazing Diet Secrets Of A Desperate Housewife” – Free Video Report![/url]
It would actually look like this: “Discover The Amazing Diet Secrets Of A Desperate Housewife” – Free Video Report!

When some forum participants create a signature link, they just add their name with a link to their website. For example: [url=http://www.e-businessmoms.com/]Vernette Carbon[/url]
The above would actually look like this: Vernette Carbon. Again, it’s best to post a benefit instead of just posting your name with a link to your website, blog, or affiliate offer.

One of my favorite questions and answers suggestion board/ forums is www.answers.yahoo.com. This is a place where people go to ask questions on any topic. 

For instance, I put in a search on answers.yahoo.com for Xbox 360 repair “open-ended questions” and there were many open-ended questions that were begging for answers. So I went ahead and answered at least 10 questions regarding xbox 360 repair without adding any links to my resource box. Then on the 11th question that I answered, I made sure my masked affiliate link was posted in the resource box.

Although $58 is not a lot of money, I made $58 that day on that one post. So let’s consider, for instance, if you have at least five post from five different niche products and five different forums earning at least $58 a day, that’s $290 daily and at least $8,000 monthly. This is how quickly the money can add up. And the good thing about this is, these leads to your websites are highly targeted to what you’re offering. You can’t beat that.

So go ahead and join as many forums as you can, forums that pertain to your niche products. Besides making a ton load of cash, you can also make some new friends while you’re at it.

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Have you ever wondered how some people manage to create a video from their kitchen table, upload it to Youtube, and vuala… over 1,000,000 views in a short period of time? Was it a fluke? Is there some secret formula for getting so many views on a Youtube video?

The question is, what really makes a Youtube video go viral? Some videos become so popular that the author of the video ends up with a movie deal, a record deal, etc. That doesn’t happen too often though.  However, Youtube video marketing can get you lots of viewers, which can drive a boatload of traffic to your site when done the right way.

Google has a love affair with Youtube and Youtube videos tend to show up in the search engine quickly.  Once you have your video uploaded on Youtube, you must have a link back to your website on the top right side, next to your video (below the subscribe button).  You also need to have your website link showing at the beginning and end of the video.

Is There A Secret Formula?

Is there really some type of secret formula that can get you thousands or even millions of hits over a short period of time? Well I’ve questioned that many times and it baffled me how some videos, like the “Charlie Bit My Finger–Again,” video, received so many views.

Now take a look at the “Charlie Bit My Finger–Again,” video below. Again, this video received over 164 million views. What do you think? Is it that funny? This was one of those videos that went viral and no one seems to really know why it’s the most viewed video on Youtube ever.

I love this video, but seriously, I’ve seen hundreds of videos much funnier. Anyway, that’s just my opinion. Take a look:

Funny, Shocking, And Sexy

Well I hope you enjoyed the video, especially if you never saw it before. Now what is my point here? Well, if you want to get Youtube viewers attention, your video needs to fit in either one of these three following categories… funy, shocking, or of a sexual nature.  When I say sexual, I mean for example, a thumbnail of a woman in a bikini (see example video thumbnail a couple videos below).

I’m not saying that videos in other categories do not receive hundreds of thousands of views or even millions, but it’s just that these three categories top the list. If you really look around Youtube you will see that the videos with the highest views pretty much fit into those categories. Below is an example of a shocking video.

The author of that video earned thousands of dollars from that video. It received over 400,000 views.
The author of the video linked the video to a company offering car insurance. He was an affiliate of that product and received a commission whenever anyone filled out there name on a form to get a car insurance quote. So he didn’t have to sell anything. Awesome, isn’t it? This is how it works.

Now let’s get back to the “Charlie” video. Personally, I think that the video below is funnier than the Charlie video. It had me in stitches. This video is in fourth place for the top 10 most viewed Youtube videos of all time.  It’s hilarious.  Again, this is only my opinion.  See below.

Tips And Tricks To Increasing Video Views

So now let me get to the point here. There is no specific formula that you can follow to a tee and get over a million views on Youtube. However, there are several things you can do to increase your chances.

As I mentioned previously, the video needs to fit in the comedy, shock, or sex categories. Second of all, you must have a “killer” keyword targeted, headline, one that would make people want to click on the video to view it.

Do some keyword research before hand and then search that keyword via youtube and see how many veiws the top video has. This way you know what you are working with. What some people actually do is steal the tags and description from the top viewed videos in order to increase their chances of getting many views like their competition.

Great Headlines

Another thing people do is create misleading headlines. I actually get annoyed when people put up misleading headlines to get lots of views like the one below. The video below is cute, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the headline. I hate being misled. Take a look at the video below to see exactly what I’m talking about.

Hot, Sexy Thumbnails

Another trick to getting lots of views is to set up your thumbnail to peak people’s interest. The thumbnail is the image from the video that people see whenever your video is displayed in the Youtube listings.

The thumbnail is actually the part of the video that most people pay attention to. There’s one problem though. Youtube actually chooses your thumbnail. You have a choice of three thumbnails that Youtube creates for you to choose from.

I’ve submitted videos, and the thumbnails that Youtube chose that were completely unrelated to the part of the videos that I wanted to emphasize. I’ve always wondered why Youtube never gives the video author the option to chose what part of the video should be the thumbnail. Well, there is actually a way to get the thumbnail of your choice.  However, some math is involved (multiplication). So if you got an “F” in math, you would have a problem here.  He he…

It’s Time To Calculate

Here’s what I do now. In order to calculate your three thumbnails, you must take the amount of minutes of your video and multiply them by three different variables (.25, .50, .75).

For example, if you have a one-minute video (60 seconds), your three thumbnails would fall at 15 seconds (60x.25), 30 seconds (60x.50), and 45 seconds (60x.75). Take a look at the thumbnail below and look at the entire video to see how the video author was able to cleverly set up such a sexy thumbnail from such a “dark” video.

One Last Tip

I have one more tip that I want to share with you. I stumbled upon this technique and I implemented it. I will share exactly what I did below. First let me describe a little about the video that I used to test this tip.

I created a Youtube Channel and a blog for my sister and just threw a video together. It was one of those experimental videos that I created, uploaded to Youtube and forgot all about it. My sister did too.

My sister never bothered with that blog that I created for her, or the Youtube channel. As a matter of fact the channel is completely dead… no activity for months.  I just checked Youtube and saw that the channel has four subscribers… suprised.  It also seemed like the video was embedded in multiple blogs because the page rank of the blog went from a PR 0 to a PR 4.

Boring As Hell

What surprised me was that my video didn’t fit into the comedy, shock, or sex category. As a matter of fact it was a tutorial…informative, but boring as hell. However, it got the message across and some extra traffic came along with that too. It wasn’t a whole lot of traffic, but I’m showing you how a neglected video received over 1,500 views. The video tutorial is entitled, “How To Have Soft, Plump Lips.”

Want to know what I did?  Well here’s what I did. I looked for a video (The Perfect Red Lips Tutorial) with over 100,000 views. The video is in a similar category of my (lip plumping) video.

I then post a video response to “The perfect red lips tutorial,” video. My video response was once in the top 4 video lineup under the video with the Red Lip Tutorial video for probably no more than a couple days.

This was because, as time went on, other people posted video responses and pushed my video further down the “Totem pole.”  The views also went down the drain as more people added video responses.  Here’s the video that I’m talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQhftPjJHc&feature=related

The whole concept here is to get people to watch your video after they’ve finished watching the original video (The Perfect Red Lip Tutorial for example). Your main goal should be to get your video response showing up in the top four spots along with the other video responses. You want to make sure that your video is on display right before your viewers eyes.

Don’t Get Lost In The Shuffle

Here is what you can do as more and more people post video responses, and your video gets lost in the shuffle. You can then add that same video as a response to another high traffic video in the same niche market. Don’t do like I did and upload a video and forget about it. Market the living daylights out of that video.

So go ahead… create your funny, shocking, or sexy video, and send a boatload of highly targeted, free traffic to your blog or website.  Make sure that you are careful with sexy videos because Youtube will shut you down if that video is too “Raw.”  Make sure you read the policies, terms, and services in order to abide by Youtube’s guideline.

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Here’s an awesome traffic trick from Kim Roach:

TGIF!

I hope you’re just as excited as I am that
the weekend is finally here!

But before you put your party hat on, I want
to share a cool traffic trick that I just
discovered.

This one is super simple and can bring you hundreds of
extra visitors.

Here’s how it works…

First, you need to go to Google and type in the following
search queries:

“Daily Link Roundup”
“Weekly Link Roundup”
“Monday Link Roundup”
“Friday Link Roundup”
“Link Roundup”

If you want to find blogs that are specifically related to your
market, then you can add a modifier. Something like:

“Weekly Link Roundup” + parenting
“Weekly Link Roundup” + marketing
“Weekly Link Roundup” + moms

Simply attach your main keyword to the search query.

This will give you a list of blogs that do weekly link roundups.
Link roundups are basically where bloggers post their favorite links
and articles each week in what’s called a Link Roundup.

Best of all, there are thousands of blogs that do this on every
imaginable topic.

Now here’s where you come in…

Once you’ve found a related blog that does link roundups you can then
contact the blog owner and send them a link to your very best
content from your own blog.

If you’ve published truly great content, then there’s a very
good chance that they will link to you in their weekly link
roundup.

This gives you a high-quality backlink and sends you some laser
targeted traffic.

This is an extremely powerful technique that I see VERY few
people using online.

But it’s super simple and can send you lots of highly-targeted
traffic.

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Here is a list of 60 sites to maximize your blog traffic:

http://www.wittysparks.com/2007/04/29/60-sites-to-maximise-blog-traffic-part-1/

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Kim Roach has done it again. Check out her awesome 21 untapped traffic sources report:

http://www.buzzblogger.com/21-untapped-traffic-sources/

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One of the best

You’ve got to check out this video from Michelle McPhearson. Great info that can help you rank better in the search engines once you learn how not to link to your website and blogs. 

I am also sharing my word of caution regarding the  30-Minute Backlink product that is linked to the above-mentioned video because as far as I understand, although the concept does work, software directory owners/real software developers don’t approve of it.  The 30 Minute Backlink is really a tutorial of how to make a browser tool bar.  You name the toolbar as your preferred keyword, and then submit this to various freeware sites.  A few software directory owners are catching on and deleting the submission.  However, Michelle McPhearson is an awesome marketer and shares some really awesome info.

That’s just my two-cents and I wanted to just share this video with you on how not to link to your site.  Enjoy!

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