Use Your Own Discussion Forum

Now, there are a lot of advantages to having discussion forums at your Internet site. According to Shortcut to Intenet Millions, Jeff Paul says some of the advantages are:

In Shortcut to Intenet Millions, Jeff Paul says they can generate a lot of traffic because what they’ll do is people will come there and ask questions or they’ll post information, and then other people will respond to that, and then people will enjoy being part of a group, it’s human nature, and they like to be a part of a community. They will generate a lot of repeat traffic. People will post questions and oftentimes the feature of a discussion board is it sends you an email when someone replies to your questions. A discussion board can strengthen your credibility by building a brand name. And it can also demonstrate your expertise. If people are wanting to know about your subject and you truly know it inside out, they can be posting questions and as you’re answering them, they will see you as an expert in their eyes and plus all the other visitors will see you as an expert also. It lets you demonstrate your expertise on a larger scale without having to take up hours and hours of phone conversations, for instance. A discussion board can generate leads and direct sales because you can promote, and if it’s your own discussion board, you can have banner ads on it. You can also use your signature files and have links to areas of your website that actually sell products and services. Your discussion board can also generate advertising revenue. There is an opportunity to sell banner ads on your discussion board. So, here are some discussion forum traffic building ideas:

• 1.According to Shortcut to Internet Millions, Jeff Paul says start a thread of questions and answers yourself. In other words, post a question to motivate people to participate and ask them about something. And then they will start responding, and then you can respond back to that, and then you’ll get a nice discussion going.
• 2.Jeff Paul says in Shortcut to Internet Millions, ask your visitors what they want to see in the discussion forum and then do that for them.
• 3.According to Shortcut to Internet Millions, Jeff Paul says always be announcing your discussion forums in your ezine.
• 4.Jeff Paul says in Shortcut to Internet Millions, post back issues of your ezine on your discussion board and then that will even add further content for people to read. And then you can invite your ezine readers to see those back issues, and then of course they will see the discussion board also.
• 5.According to Shortcut to Internet Millions, Jeff Paul says have guest moderators and have them come in and monitor a certain part of your discussion board and in exchange maybe you will let them put a banner on your discussion board or put a link to their product.
• 6.Jeff Paul says in Shortcut to Internet Millions, list your discussion forum in the right directories in search engines.