It takes some expertise and a little technical knowledge to be successful at forum spamming. Forum spamming cannot be done by just anybody. Only a few qualified Internet users can do it successfully.
What is forum spamming
For those who are not familiar with what forum spamming is, it is the activity of leaving numerous links at numerous forums online without participating or contributing anything worthwhile to the forum. Maybe you might be guilty of doing this without knowing that what you’re doing is forum spamming and breaking the rules of forum postings.
While learning affiliate marketing, you might have heard that joining
forums is one of the ways to increase traffic to your affiliate product sales page so you join several forums as suggested and in submitting your first few posts, you left links to your affiliate product sales page indiscriminately and what happened?Almost all forums will not tolerate forum spamming. In most forums, the forum members might ostracize you and some forums might even ban you from their forums because you’ve been reported as a spammer. So what are you to do? How are you now to sell your affiliate product using forum marketing. You’ve just find out that forum spamming is not easy.
Fake name
To become a forum spammer you need to have several fake names. You can never use your real name because you don’t want to tarnish your online reputation.
Fake email address
You have to register with a fake email address too and you cannot make it available for view by other members of the forum. However, even if your email address is available to other members of the forum, you don’t care because you don’t use the email address except for the purpose of registering with the respective forums.
Several user names and email addresses
Be prepared with several user names because once you’re reported as a spammer, you will be banned and your account will be closed. And if the forum is one that is of value, be prepared to re-register under a different user name using a different email address.
Fake avatar
To capture the attention of forum members, use a sexy avatar. Don’t use your real picture. A sexy female avatar would usually do the job of getting forum members to view your thread. Even if you’re not a woman, use a sexy female avatar. It’ll be more successful than using a male sexy avatar or your real picture.
Extremely thick skin
You must be extremely thick skin. You mustn’t be bothered when forum members insult you or even when they call you names. You must continuously open new thread in all the available categories and post your links everywhere in the forums until eventually your account is banned. Ignore all warnings of being ostracized. This must probably be the hardest thing to do
if you are a sensitive person. It can be damaging to your morale too.Patience
You need extreme patience because you have to look for appropriate forums to spam. You cannot spam a golf forum if you’re selling a dog training product. So you may have to take a whole day online just to find a good dog training forum.
By “good” I mean a forum with at least ten thousand members and one that is active. You don’t want to spam a forum which is dead with no active members. A forum may have ten thousand registered members but the last member to log in can be two years ago which would effectively make the forum a dead forum.
The numbers game
It can sometimes take hundreds of forums to spam before you find even one gullible forum member who would click on your link. That means you need to be a member of many thousands of forums before you begin to earn anything from your efforts.
So you can see from what you have to do above, being a forum spammer is not easy. Not everyone can do it. Therefore the best way you can use forums to drive traffic to your website or articles or affiliate product sales page is to participate ethically in forums.
Establish yourself first, make friends, contribute your expertise, help other forum members and you’ll find that when you recommend a product or you direct forum members to your online articles or request them to join your as your referral, they would willingly do as you’ve suggested because the recommendations come from a friend and not from someone guilty of forum spamming.
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