Comments on: Steps in Building a Successful Online Business – Part 3

By: Alan Mater

Alan Mater — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:40:13 +0000

@almir, Forums are very effective. You can get direct traffic as well as search engine traffic. Plus, making good use of your signature will drive your website rankings up. I will be making a post on this very shortly, so stay tuned

By: almir

almir — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:24:31 +0000

wow Alan i enjoyed reading this post it contained a lot of useful ideas. It was also cool that you provided a list of dofollow forums which will check out i'm not a current member of any forum yet because i always underestimated its effectiveness so i now got some work to do . almir’s last blog post..Vital Tips That Can Aid Any Blogger

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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:48:39 +0000

[...] if there are at least 3 forums in the niche you’re looking to get [...]

By: Alan Mater

Alan Mater — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:34:55 +0000

Hi Tony,

The first thing I recommend doing is finding your target market. Are you looking for local and regional business for your carpet cleaning company? If so, you want to target the same area when marketing online.

In order for your website to show up in a search, you have to optimize your site for the search engines. If you don’t know how to do this I recommend you grab a copy of Suzanne Morrison’s 3 Steps to Search Engine Success ebook at http://www.replaceyoursalary.com/seo-made-easy.html.

After you optimize your site, start building backlinks to your site through article marketing, blog commenting, forum participation, etc.

By: Alan Mater

Alan Mater — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:27:35 +0000

I get quite a bit of traffic from forums. The key is posting useful and informative information.

By: TonyB

TonyB — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:17:51 +0000

Hi Everyone,
I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it’s somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL).

Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.

I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.

thanks,

Tony

By: Leon Bowes

Leon Bowes — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:58:27 +0000

Great series Alan

I am seeing more and more “visitor paths” in StatCounter from forums outside the WF and PPG. The more you participate, the more hits I am seeing.

Thanks for the post (And Congrats to your PSU)

Leon Bowes