The benefits of creating a Forum/Discussion Board (It's FREE)
To have your own forum or discussion board means to run the forum on your own. If you happened to be a forum user, you will notice that there are moderators and administrators that manage the forum. As a warm startup to introducing this method of marketing to you, let me briefly talk about the roles of moderators and administrators.
Moderators- there is at least one moderator being assigned the job of looking after the content of the forum. Usually every subforum has at least one moderator who keep an eye on the discussion among forum members so that the posts that members write do not breach the rules of the forum website. However, the extent to which moderators in the forum is subject to the policy of the administrators.
Administrator - this may be the creator of the forum himself. The forum creator is free to appoint other administrators to co-run the forum website with him. Of course, administrators may also be moderators, but this is up to the main administrator/creator. Administrators focus on the running of the whole site, rather than the moderating the content of the forums like what a moderator does. One of the administration works include managing members.
So now let's talk about a forum can help you improve your web traffic. having your own forum means having direct access to your website visitors. This allows your visitors or customers to make enquiries through the forum, thus making your website more user friendly. Besides that, you could also reach more people when you have an interactive forum. Potential visitors/customers could reach your site more easily if you have a forum that provides online users information about the area of your specialization. Through direct communication with internet users, they are more likely to have confidence on your products or services that you would later sell to them. A forum also help you to retain your customers or visitors as you can use it to announce your latest activities or products/services. In other words, it is a great advertising tool.
To create your own forum is quite easy if you are willing to go through the work of setting up the forum and later, to run it. It would be a long-term work in fact. But if you can see its benefits and want to try this method, you can always do it for free. There are many free forum hosts out there. The following list is a compilation of some of them:
1) Forummotion
2) Lefora
3) Forumer
4) ProBoards
Have a nice weekend.
Moderators- there is at least one moderator being assigned the job of looking after the content of the forum. Usually every subforum has at least one moderator who keep an eye on the discussion among forum members so that the posts that members write do not breach the rules of the forum website. However, the extent to which moderators in the forum is subject to the policy of the administrators.
Administrator - this may be the creator of the forum himself. The forum creator is free to appoint other administrators to co-run the forum website with him. Of course, administrators may also be moderators, but this is up to the main administrator/creator. Administrators focus on the running of the whole site, rather than the moderating the content of the forums like what a moderator does. One of the administration works include managing members.
So now let's talk about a forum can help you improve your web traffic. having your own forum means having direct access to your website visitors. This allows your visitors or customers to make enquiries through the forum, thus making your website more user friendly. Besides that, you could also reach more people when you have an interactive forum. Potential visitors/customers could reach your site more easily if you have a forum that provides online users information about the area of your specialization. Through direct communication with internet users, they are more likely to have confidence on your products or services that you would later sell to them. A forum also help you to retain your customers or visitors as you can use it to announce your latest activities or products/services. In other words, it is a great advertising tool.
To create your own forum is quite easy if you are willing to go through the work of setting up the forum and later, to run it. It would be a long-term work in fact. But if you can see its benefits and want to try this method, you can always do it for free. There are many free forum hosts out there. The following list is a compilation of some of them:
1) Forummotion
2) Lefora
3) Forumer
4) ProBoards
Have a nice weekend.
Just Ping It!
There's this method of letting people know when you post an article in your blog. It's called the ping service. Funky, isn't it? The ping service help you to reach a wide spectrum of online users as it basically inform (or ping) search engines and blog directories that you have entered a blog post. It's easy for bloggers to make their latest entries widely known.
So, how does the ping service actually help you to drive traffic to your site? See, when your latest blog post is submitted to the search engines and blog directories, your blog becomes easier to search and locate. These search engines and blog directories help internet users to find articles or blog posts that are relevant to their intended keywords. So when your blog post is pinged, it automatically goes into the records of the search engines and directories. Let say if you blog about parenting tips, and when there is this Joe or Jenny searching for parenting tips, your blog post will pop up to their screen. This is how increased traffic comes to you. But of course, yours is not the only one popping up to their screen. But nonetheless, ping service still help you to reach more readers.
Ok, here's a few ping services that are free. The more well known one would be Ping-o-Matic! as it is more widely used. Ping your blog now!
PingMyBlog
Ping-O-Matic!
So, how does the ping service actually help you to drive traffic to your site? See, when your latest blog post is submitted to the search engines and blog directories, your blog becomes easier to search and locate. These search engines and blog directories help internet users to find articles or blog posts that are relevant to their intended keywords. So when your blog post is pinged, it automatically goes into the records of the search engines and directories. Let say if you blog about parenting tips, and when there is this Joe or Jenny searching for parenting tips, your blog post will pop up to their screen. This is how increased traffic comes to you. But of course, yours is not the only one popping up to their screen. But nonetheless, ping service still help you to reach more readers.
Ok, here's a few ping services that are free. The more well known one would be Ping-o-Matic! as it is more widely used. Ping your blog now!
PingMyBlog
Ping-O-Matic!
Earn a little cash by doing easy tasks
Do you check your emails everyday? Do you play computer games? Are you an online shopper? Or do you just have the extra time that you do not know how to put into good use??
Yep, reading emails is no longer a crap as it used to be. You might hate emails sent by strangers. Indeed, everybody does. And yep for a second time, playing games do earn you some money. Imagine yourself spending a couple of minutes a day squinting at those emails (because you don't really have to read it in details) or answering surveys that then help you to make a little money, pretty fun isn't it? You can even earn a little money by clicking links. Yes, there are people who pay to get this silly action done, believe it or not.
Here's a few membership sites that offer you such an opportunity.
RewardsCentral - reading emails, doing short surveys, clicking links, or shop online. (earn reward points that can be turned into cash or used in online auctions)
sendearnings - reading emails, shopping online, try new products, online surveys, or play games.
This is the world of internet marketing, where many crappy ideas have been turned into money-making opportunities. No matter what, internet marketing still rocks!
Yep, reading emails is no longer a crap as it used to be. You might hate emails sent by strangers. Indeed, everybody does. And yep for a second time, playing games do earn you some money. Imagine yourself spending a couple of minutes a day squinting at those emails (because you don't really have to read it in details) or answering surveys that then help you to make a little money, pretty fun isn't it? You can even earn a little money by clicking links. Yes, there are people who pay to get this silly action done, believe it or not.
Here's a few membership sites that offer you such an opportunity.
RewardsCentral - reading emails, doing short surveys, clicking links, or shop online. (earn reward points that can be turned into cash or used in online auctions)
sendearnings - reading emails, shopping online, try new products, online surveys, or play games.
This is the world of internet marketing, where many crappy ideas have been turned into money-making opportunities. No matter what, internet marketing still rocks!
Create your own website - Free N Easy
Creating a website is so easy that any newbie who do not know programming can do it without much difficulty. Whether you want to create a personal website, business website or a group website, there are free web hosting services that help you to create a website by drag-and-paste using their free site builder. They also provide you hosting service for free.
There are disparities among those free web hosts. Some provide these free services with a condition, that is to put their ads on your free website, while there are others which are ad-free (one of them is 110mb hosting). You can also find those that not only provide you free website, but also a free blog. Weebly is one example. Or do you want something more special? Spruz allows you to create your very own social network. Apart from these three, Webs and Yola provide a good platform for those who want to set up their own online business. You can get some good business features like shopping cart and product listing with their free business website hosting. Different free web hosting come with different capacity and bandwidth, you decide which suit you the best.
Free web hosts allow you to set up your own domain like myname.webs.com or myname.spruz.com. Of course, there are some free web hosts that allow you to use your own domain name like myname.com or myname.net without charging you any fee (but of course this is on the assumption that you have already bought and own your domain). If you want to get better features, you can always upgrade your account with a fee, a service which free web hosts usually provide.
Creating a website is really free and easy! And a website is not just a publishing site like a blog. You will know when you have one.
There are disparities among those free web hosts. Some provide these free services with a condition, that is to put their ads on your free website, while there are others which are ad-free (one of them is 110mb hosting). You can also find those that not only provide you free website, but also a free blog. Weebly is one example. Or do you want something more special? Spruz allows you to create your very own social network. Apart from these three, Webs and Yola provide a good platform for those who want to set up their own online business. You can get some good business features like shopping cart and product listing with their free business website hosting. Different free web hosting come with different capacity and bandwidth, you decide which suit you the best.
Free web hosts allow you to set up your own domain like myname.webs.com or myname.spruz.com. Of course, there are some free web hosts that allow you to use your own domain name like myname.com or myname.net without charging you any fee (but of course this is on the assumption that you have already bought and own your domain). If you want to get better features, you can always upgrade your account with a fee, a service which free web hosts usually provide.
Creating a website is really free and easy! And a website is not just a publishing site like a blog. You will know when you have one.