The time has come. The moment you all have been waiting for.

I am finally announcing the niche I have chosen to go into along with the actual site. A lot of planning and preparation went into this, and I’m hoping those efforts pay off.

No matter the case, I’ll be sharing every step of the process. And with that said, the very first step in starting a niche site, or any site for that matter, is choosing a domain name.

Before I get into the details, here is the domain I chose for my niche site…

*drumroll*

http://getbackyourexadvice.com

There it is in all its glory. I’m sure you can guess the niche I’ll be targeting. But if not, here’s a few ideas.

Couples who just broke up, boyfriend/girlfriend wanting their ex back, couples on the verge of divorce, etc.

You get the idea. Obviously there are niches within niches, but the main niche I’ll be focusing on is for those wanting to get their ex back.

I can either go broad and branch away, or I can go deep and narrow in on a specific group of people. the possibilities are endless really. Pretty exciting stuff, eh?

Why the Relationship Niche?

Before I get into all the domain name goodies, I feel I should answer this question for those wondering why I would want to get into this niche.

Truth be told, I’ve been through a bad breakup. As recent as June of this year. I was engaged. No need to go further into details. At the time, I wanted to get back together, but not anymore.

A lot of people were in my position, and you will always have couples who are breaking up for numerous reasons.

All in all, there will always be money to be made within this niche. People are desperate to get their ex’s back and will do anything, including paying for valuable advice on how to do just that.

So, that’s the why.

Let’s get into how I ended up with the domain name I  chose and the necessary steps I took to get there.

Preliminary Domain Name Research

It doesn’t sound fun, and you’d be right to think so, unless you consider the money you can make by getting it right.

It’s important to realize that when you’re building a niche site, it’s a little different than building a branding website, e-commerce site, personal site, corporate site or something similar.

Take my site for example. It’s more of a branding-type site, targeting a very broad and large niche. With niche marketing, you’re targeting a small niche, usually a specific keyword phrase.

This is the same as targeting larger niches, but the competition will be much less. So with that in mind, the keyword research is exactly the same. The only difference is that you’ll be looking for keyword phrases that get searched for less (but still have a good number of searches per month) and have little competition.

Another difference is that your domain name is going to include the keyword phrase you choose to target. As you can see by the domain I chose, my main keyword phrase I’m targeting is “get back your ex.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t get an exact match domain name with just those words, as it was already taken. That would have been ideal.

But what you can do, and what I did, was add a word to the end of the phrase. The word I added was “advice.”

Again, ideally you want just your keyword phrase as the domain name. But, when that’s not possible, add a word to the end.

So, how do we get to this stage?

Keyword Research

Like I mentioned before, the way you do keyword research never changes. The only thing that changes is what you’re looking for, and that is determined by the the niche you’re going into along with the amount of competition there is.

I’ve covered keyword research in previous posts, so I don’t want to get real technical here, other than to show you exactly what I did to land on the keyword phrase I’m targeting, along with the reason behind my decision.

I don’t have any fancy, expensive keyword tools (yet). Honestly, you don’t need them. They make life easier, but you can get by using free tools. I use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

After spending around 3 hours searching various keyword phrases, I came upon the “get back your ex” phrase and chose to use it. Here’s a screenshot at what this looks like when using Google’s free tool:

It’s important to note that you must check the “Exact” tick box so that you get an accurate number of exact match searches per month. Otherwise, you get an inaccurate, normally much higher number of searches per month.

As you can see, the exact match shows 1,000 searches per month for “get back your ex.” This is a fair amount and will serve well when you’re just starting out. It’s important to start out small and then slowly start targeting more lucrative keywords once you’re already bringing in traffic.

To get an idea of the competition for the phrase you’ve chosen, all you have to do is use Google search and enter in the keyword phrase, without quotes. Here is the list results when I search “get back your ex” without quotes:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,24279,27731,27759,27867&sugexp=gsih&xhr=t&q=get+back+your+ex&cp=6&pf=p&sclient=psy&aq=0&aqi=&aql=f&oq=get+back+your+ex&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=e18ec2db23988f7d

If you click on the link, you’ll see that there are 133 million websites that come up. Normally, that’s A LOT of competing websites. However, what’s important here is to take a look at the top 10 websites that show up. Look at what kind of sites they are, whether they’re article directory sites, news sites, etc.

Also, take a look at their Google Page Rank. The only real threat is the very first web page. It has a Page Rank of 4, and it’s promoting the exact same program I am. However, the site is boring, and it looks like a sales letter. I couldn’t get any traffic stats on it either.

The next two listings are article directory sites. Not saying it will be easy to out-rank these, but I’m pretty optimistic that will some strategic backlinking, I can pull it off. I think I can even get to the number one spot.

The Next Step

All these factors I mentioned are an important part of doing the necessary research to find a suitable domain name. You have to factor in the number of monthly searches and the strength of competition. Obviously this takes time, more so when you’re going the free route. This process can be quickly sped up when using tools like Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai.

Like I said, it took me about 3 hours to finally come upon the keyword phrase I wanted to run with. That’s time worth spent in my opinion. If you also noticed, there are many related keywords I can focus on too. The screenshot shows you another one that might be suitable, depending on the competition, and there are close to one hundred more related terms from the complete list.

These are also factors to consider as well. No one said it would be easy, but with a little patience and creativity, finding a suitable domain name doesn’t have to be super difficult.

Now, once you’re set on a keyword phrase, the next step is to actually reserve your domain name.

Buying Your Domain Name

I use NameCheap to register all of my domains. They’re cheap, reliable, offer free Whois protection, and registering your domains with a separate registrar than your web host is a good idea for many reasons.

All you have to do is enter your keyword phrase into the domain name lookup and hit enter. You’ll be presented with a screen like this:

Of course, your choice should not be taken. You can choose as many domain extensions you want. .Com domains are the most popular, next would be .Net and then .Org.

Once you’re done, click the “Add to Cart” button and go through the checkout process. After that, your domain is ready. It’s all a matter of changing your DNS settings to point to your web host and setting up the new domain as an add-on to your existing web hosting account. If you need help with this, just let me know.

The next phase of the niche site building process is the overall design of the site. I will cover these aspects in my next niche site update, so stay tuned for that.

I realize I covered a lot of information here. If you have any questions or there’s something you’re not sure about, please feel free to ask. You can either leave a comment below or email me directly. Either way is fine.

As a continuation of my Building Links to Your Website post, I want to do the same thing with the subject of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). A lot of people are confused about SEO, PageRank, search engine rankings, etc., especially if they’re just starting out.

I’ve been asked a number of questions recently via email and Facebook regarding this subject, so I wanted to share them with you all so that if you have the same or similar questions, you can get them answered here.

I’ll quote the questions and answers, and if I have anything to add, I’ll post it below that to keep Q&A’s separate from my afterthoughts.  Confused? You’ll see what I mean.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Q&A’s

Questions: May I ask you one question about SEO? What do you think about PR calculating? Is it really possible to achieve a PR 6 with 19 backlinks from a website that also has a PR 6? I mean, if I write 19 articles for EzineArticles.com, will my new website also achieve a PR 6?

Reference: http://www.fuzzone.com/blog/346/search-marketing/how-to-calculate-your-pagerank/

Is it a good idea to make backlinks from one site with a high PR, (for example, write articles to ezinearticles.com), or is it better to get backlinks from different sites? For example, EzineArticles, forum signatures, bookmarking, comments on blogs, etc.?

Answers: There are many variables to how PR is calculated. Simply getting a few backlinks from a PR 6 site like EZA will not make your site a PR 6.

I recommend getting backlinks many different ways; through articles, forum postings, blog commenting, social bookmarking, etc.

Afterthought: For more competitive niches, you definitely want to vary your link building strategy. However, if you’re building a micro niche site in which you only need a few good backlinks, then submitting a few articles to EZA would do the trick in most cases.

Question: What is your opinion about article marketing? Is it possible to achieve Google’s first positions ONLY by writing articles to ezinearticles.com (The niches would be with low competition)?

Answer: I highly recommend article marketing. As long as your competition is low, it is possible to get to the first position of Google by submitting to EZA alone. However, keep in mind your anchor text would need to be the same keyword phrase for every article you submit, and getting to the first position will take time.

Afterthought: The less the competition, the easier and quicker it will be to rank at the top of Google. If you’ve been following along with me for a while now, you’ll remember it took me all but a week to get my micro niche site to the first position in Google for my main keyword phrase.

Questions: I submit my articles to additional directories but they’re rewrited by software, so all articles are different from 30% to 50%. So, all is well there, but a lot of them are NO FOLLOW backlinks, so about 30% of my backlinks will be not counted, and they will not affect my sites in any way?

I have seen that search engine rankings are more important than PR, because many times I have seen that on the 1st place is a website with 2 PR and some count of backlinks, and on 2nd place is a website well known with 6 PR and much more backlinks, and I have always wondered why? Looks like that second site should be on the first place with the same keyword?

About bookmarking, I have a question. Must I bookmark only my site’s first page? I want to get good rankings for my home page, and all my backlinks are directed to the home page, so I must keep doing the same? Or, could I redirect backlinks to other pages on my site? One more thing, what if I bookmark some of my ezine articles? I heard that is good for PR and search engine ranks because the links will make the link between my site, ezine and bookmarking? Is it worth doing that if those bookmarking sites are nofollow?

Answers: As long as the article is at least 30% different, then they should be fine. In most cases those backlinks from those articles would count, and as long as the links are DO FOLLOW then PR will get passed through to your site. No Follow links are still beneficial for rankings, though.

Yeah, more baclinks doesn’t mean higher rankings… all the time. Each baclink is weighted on varying factors; factors that include the site’s PR, relevance, type of backlink, etc.

One social bookmarking site I use (http://www.mmosocialnetwork.com) does give you a DO FOLLOW backlink. May want to check that one out. I’m sure there are others as well. Perhaps a quick Google search will present a few.

When bookmarking, it’s important to bookmark individual blog posts and not the home page. When building backlinks in general, you do want to build backlinks to your home page, but at the same time you want to build links to your internal pages as well.

Bookmarking to NO FOLLOW sites won’t help with PR but will help for rankings.

Afterthought: Just remember when bookmarking you also want to bookmark other people’s stuff… it’s best to keep a good mix rather than bookmarking only your pages. You’ll be seen as a spammer and could have your accounts deleted.

That concludes the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Q&A.

Note: I don’t proclaim to be an expert in any field, especially anything related to SEO. I only speak from personal experience and what I’ve done and am doing to increase my search engine rankings for the sites I have, including this one.

If you seek professional advice or the wisdom of a “guru”, you won’t find it here. Search Google.

Final Thoughts

I want to thank you for sticking with me through this lengthy post. I hope you got value from these questions and answers and can apply them to your own SEO efforts.

Ask Your Question!

Do you have a question that wasn’t covered here? What specific SEO question do you have and would like answered? Let me know in the comments below.

I look forward to answering your questions!

Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions related to getting traffic to a website, search engine optimization (SEO) and building backlinks to a site. My email and Facebook inboxes have been flooded with all kinds of questions, so I thought it would be great to post them here in case you had similar questions.

The topic I’m going to cover in this post will have everything to do with getting traffic to a site, for the most part. Some questions may stray a little into the other areas I mentioned, but for the most part they deal with traffic.

I’ll quote the questions and answers, and if I have anything to add, I’ll post it below that to keep Q&A’s separate from my afterthoughts.  Confused? You’ll see what I mean.

Traffic Q&A’s

Question: My site for the main keyword is #1 on Google. The local searches Google shows 6000, the webmaster tool as well. So I suppose it would be 6000 divided by 30 (month days) = 200 visitors per day. However, with Google Analytics I see that my site visiting only 70 unique visitors per day? My webmaster tool shows Search queries – Impressions – 6,600, Clicks – 1,000. Is this some kind a rule that if Google shows some number of searches you will never get all visitors to your site and must be divided by two?

Few times I have tried to change the description, but nothing happened.

Answer: When using Google’s keyword tool, those monthly search numbers are only estimates. So, sometimes they may be accurate, sometimes they may not be. The only thing to do at that point is to start ranking for other related search terms which will increase your overall traffic.

Afterthought: Another thing you want to remember is that just because your website may be in the number one spot, you still have the Sponsored Listings to compete with along with the other natural search results. Granted, being number one is going to bring in the majority of that traffic, but not all of it.

So, as I recommend, start trying to rank for other terms as well to increase your overall traffic.

Question: Maybe you could advise what should I do to fix this problem.

On my Google Webmasters account, I see that on my site, which is on #2 spot, have a very small amount of clicks – 73, but impressions – 1900. I’m wondering that here should be something not right, I understand that Google shows my website’s link – 1900 times, but visitors clicking on it only 73 times, am I right Alan?

What should I do to get most of those clicks from those 1,900 impressions?

Answer: My first reaction would be that the ads being displayed on your website aren’t targeted to the content on your site. Or, the people coming to your site aren’t targeted for the content on your site, assuming the ads are relevant. That would be where I would start.

Afterthought: You could also try Adsense Section Targeting so that more relevant ads show up on your site. I recommend reading through what it is and note the caution if you do implement it.

Question: Hey, do you know much about buying traffic to your website? Is that a bad idea, or do you recommend it?

Answer: I have nothing against it. However, make sure you do some homework and have a budget for it. You can easily lose money if you don’t know what you’re doing it. I’ve done it in the past… made some money, lost some money.

I’ve heard Yahoo and MSN are pretty good, so those are possibilities too. I’ve never used them, though, only Adwords.

Afterthought: Yahoo is pretty much non-existent now, and MSN is now Bing. So, I’m not sure where the PPC side of things stand for either as I haven’t looked into it since these happenings. The majority of people do use Google Adwords, though.

Question: Hey, I was wondering if you would be able to help me improve my Google ranking? I know it wont be easy, but I would LOVE to get my page to appear on Google page 1 at some point within the next 6 months. Is that at all possible, under such a competitive keyword phrase like ‘keyword‘?

Answer: Sure, I’d be happy to help. That term is going to be very tough after looking at the sites currently on page one. Perhaps there is a long-tail keyword you could shoot for? This would help you rank faster and at the same time position your site to be in a better position to rank for your main keyword. That’s just my thoughts.

Afterthought: I always recommend going after long-tail terms especially if your niche is very competitive. For instance, my niche is the ‘work from home’ niche, which is SUPER competitive. It could take you months or years to be ranking well and earning money for that exact phrase, unless you targeted a long-tail phrase instead. FYI, my site is on page 2 of Google for the ‘work from home’ keyword.

Question: Yeah I thought something as common as “keyword” would be too tough to compete with, but I do like your idea of using a long-tail keyword phrase. Do you have any suggestions as to what I could go for? I was thinking terms like “keyword1“, or “keyword2” etc… would you think it is possible to appear on page 1 under those kind of search terms?

Answer: I haven’t checked Google page one to see what all sites come up, but it’s something to start with. I use this tool: https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer.

This tool is very handy to find the number of searches per month. Make sure to check “[Exact]” match type. Then, go to Google and type in the search terms you want to see the competing sites for. That should give you an idea of what you’re up against. Also look at the total number of sites that come up. The less the better.

Afterthought: Some people will tell you to search for the keyword with quotes when looking up your competition. This is fine; however, no one searching for that keyword is going to put it in quotes, so make sure to also do the search without quotes to get a total number of competing sites. The numbers will be significantly different from each other.

Note: I don’t proclaim to be in expert in any field, including how to get website traffic. I only speak from personal experience and what I’ve done and am doing to get traffic to the sites I have, including this one.

If you seek professional advice or the wisdom of a “guru”, you won’t find it here. Search Google.

Final Thoughts

These questions covered a wide variety of traffic techniques and strategies, but I realize there are so many other topics that could be discussed regarding traffic.

Ask Your Question

I’m turning the floor over to you now…

What do you want to know about getting traffic to your website? What question/s do you have that weren’t covered in this post?

Leave a comment below with your question/s or you can contact me directly.

I look forward to answering your questions!

If you liked my last post on Free Keyword Research, then you’re going to like this post even more. I created another video to show you a very cool way to determine whether the keywords you’re using are keywords that people are searching for with the intent to buy something.

Sounds awesome, right? I know that if you could rank your website for a keyword phrase that people search for to find stuff to buy, that you’d make more money. That’s the whole purpose of this amazing free tool.

Check out the video to learn more…

Here’s the link that I referred to in the video:

adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/

Let me know what you think!

You may recall a previous post I wrote the end of last month about Angela Edward’s backlink service. Well, as it turns out, there’s a guy by the name of Paul Johnson who also provides a similar service.

Paul’s service is almost identical to Angela’s. The only difference is that Paul provides 50 High PR one way backlinks every month, opposed to Angela’s 30. Another difference is that Paul’s backlinks  come from PR 4 and 5 sites, as well as higher PR sites. The lowest PR that Angela provides is 6, up to PR 9.

I highly recommend both services for website owners that are looking to increase their search engine ranking for their chosen keywords. With each site you’ll be able to create a backlink that links back to your site. The more one-way backlinks pointing to your site from high PR sites, the higher your website will rank in Google for that keyword phrase.

Getting quality, high PR one way backlinks to your website is critical, and Angela and Paul have provided a way for us to do just that for a very nominal fee. They’ve done the hard work in finding these sites. All we have to do is go create our links and watch our rankings increase. It really is that easy.

Get High PR Backlinks Now:

Angela’s Backlink Service (Note: Angela’s site is currently offline and is not providing packets anymore. I have kept the link just in case she decides to start back up again).

Paul’s Backlink Service

Both services combined give you 80 Paul’s service gives you 50 high PR one way backlinks every month.  That’s a huge steal.

Remember, you need high PR backlinks to your site. If you don’t jump on this opportunity to increase your search engine rankings, your competitors will. I personally use both with very positive results for all of my websites.

I’ve been using a backlink building service to improve search engine rankings for my main website and this blog. Over the course of my backlink building career, I’ve generated over 20,000 backlinks to my site. That’s taken a huge amount of time and effort.

The problem with building backlinks through article marketing, social bookmarking, blog commenting, etc. is that it just takes too much time. Plus, not all of those backlinks are going to carry much weight.

You see, backlinks are more about the quality than they are the quantity. A lot of low quality baclinks aren’t going to produce massive results. However, a small portion of high quality backlinks will.

I’ve just managed to get my website on the first page of Google for the keyword phrase “work from home opportunities” (without quotes). This blog is also on the first page for the phrase “work from home resources” (without quotes). Both of these terms are my main keywords that I’m targeting, and they both have a HUGE amount of competition. See screenshots below…

Before using this backlink building service, my website was jumping up and down on the second page of search results. I’ve manage to improve search engine rankings for my site and blog thanks to Angela Edwards’ Backlink Building Service. (Note: link has been removed as Angela is no longer offering this service).

Angela’s service provides 30 PR6-PR8 sites that allow do-follow backlinks. All you have to do is go through and sign up for the sites and place your links… that’s it. For only $5 a month, you get 30 high PR backlinks to your site.

This is the best $5 I ever spent. With only one month in, I’ve already improved my search engine rankings with great results. I can’t wait to see what the second month will result in.

If you’re struggling to improve search engine rankings for your website, sign up (no longer available) for Angela’s backlink building service. I promise you won’t be disappointed, and you’ll enjoy more traffic and sales from your website.

Writing articles is an art form. Developing content for the net takes time and practice. Writing effectively and getting your readers to respond is the first benefit in building traffic. This results in direct traffic as readers are inclined to click on your link(s) in the resource box of your article.

I suggest you take a moment to visit Patricia Makhulo’s Article Marketing Made Easy post which gives you many great pointers on getting your article noticed and read.

Article marketing has two main traffic benefits: direct traffic and search traffic. Both are important and should be utilized to their fullest potential. You want to get as much bang for your buck as possible, so there’s no point in wasting a good article by only getting half the potential traffic.

Article marketing is one of the best ways to create long-term, targeted traffic to your website. I’m going to explain both traffic benefits.

An article is made up of different elements that are essential to getting direct traffic. These elements include:

• Defining the product/service you need to promote – Most articles have the purpose of providing useful information in order to pre-sell a product or service.
• Using the “useful, but incomplete approach” – Provide useful information to your readers, but make sure it’s incomplete and that they could better use the information by visiting the link(s) in your resource box.
• Using a tips list or tutorial format when applicable – If your article can be broken down into a list format, then do it. This will direct your readers along towards realizing their need for your product/service.
• Expanding on your main points to build the content of the article – as I’m doing with these key elements, provide information that expands on the main points of the article.
• Providing a closing or “call to action,” usually in the resource box, also known as the “about the author” section – Most people fail to do this. The resource box is there for a reason. Tell your readers to visit your link(s) to make better use of what they read.
• Re-reading and proofreading the article to avoid errors – Don’t do this yourself as most people fail to catch their own mistakes. Have someone proofread your article for you so that it reads well and is error free. The best thing you can do when crafting an article is to write in a clear and concise manner. You need to convey your message to your readers so that they can understand it. Your article should read as though you were talking face to face with them.

If you focus on these key elements, your article stands a much better chance of receiving clickthroughs and your website getting targeted, direct traffic. Also keep Patricia’s models in mind as they work very well too.

The other main benefit involves getting natural search engine traffic from people searching for information. Aside from direct traffic, search traffic is just as good because it’s also highly targeted. Most searches performed in a search engine are for information. That’s why it’s so important that you provide useful information to your readers because there’s a better chance that they’ll convert to a customer.

There’s two elements that you need to be aware of when striving to get search traffic as a result of your articles. As people search for information, they enter keywords into the search box. The keywords they enter determine what results are displayed.

It is your job to find out what keywords those people are searching for. I recommend Google’s External Keyword Tool. Once you determine the keywords you’re going to focus on, the two elements soon come together. The first element is writing your article for specific keywords.

You need to determine what keyword phrase you need your article to rank for in search engines so that it is displayed when someone searches for that keyword phrase. This may sound complicated, but all you need to know here is that as long as you provide useful and unique content, your article will get noticed.

Websites are primarily ranked based on how many backlinks (links pointing to your site from other relevant sites) they have. The key here is containing the keywords you need your website to rank for within those backlinks. This you can completely control with the use of your article resource box.

The second element applies to your website. This involves the use of your article resource box. While the resource box can be used as your call to action as discussed earlier, it also has another use. As you need to get your article ranked high in search engines for a particular keyword phrase, you also need to get your website ranked high for keywords as well.

While developing your call to action phrase, create a link to the web page that you want to send your readers that contains your keywords you need your page to rank for in search engines. Every article you create will contain your resource box with your call to action and a backlink to your website. You see how your resource box serves two purposes in one?

If all of this sounds a bit confusing to you, then you should read some of my other posts on SEO:

Web Page Optimization

5 SEO Tasks You Should Do Every Day

I also recommend Suzanne Morrison’s 3 Steps to Search Engine Success.

Applying these methods to your article marketing efforts will ensure direct and long-term traffic for years to come. Both forms of traffic are equally important, so don’t ignore these methods. Article marketing, when done properly, will help you build your business and set it up for long lasting success. Remember, your website must have traffic, and article marketing can help you achieve it.

One of my readers prompted me to write about the use of forums in marketing your work from home web site or products/services that you offer. Believe it or not, forums can provide terrific targeted traffic as well as long-term natural search engine traffic.

I’ve always been a fan of forums. They provide an enormous wealth of information that is completely free. You can get any question answered by those more experienced. These two benefits alone are well worth the time of getting involved in forums.

An even bigger benefit that some overlook is the marketing aspect that forum participation can bring. The marketing doesn’t come from your posts, but instead from your forum signature. This aspect, that is built into most if not all forums, is not used to its full potential.

Forum signatures should be designed to grab the attention of other forum members who read your posts. This can be tricky as you usually have limited space to create a signature, but it can be done.

A forum signature usually consists of your favorite links to websites that you want to share with others. These can also be your own websites, and that’s what this post is going to focus on.

Here’s an example of one of my signatures… http://www.warriorforum.com/members/alan-mater.html. Click on the About Me tab and scroll down till you see the Signature section.

Notice how every website or web page contains a phrase that is hyperlinked to go to the corresponding URL. For instance, I have Professional Proofreading Services linked to go to http://www.replaceyoursalary.com/proofreading.html.

The mistake I see many make is that they ignore the keyword aspect of forum signatures and just enter the URL for their website, and sometimes they don’t even have it hyperlinked! That’s fine if you’re focusing on direct traffic from the forum, but you’re missing out on the larger aspect of natural search engine traffic.

Note: Most forums have different signature rules and require specific code in order to create hyperlinked text. Be sure you know what is required when setting up your signature, otherwise it won’t turn out right.

You see, using keywords in your signature links will create backlinks to the web pages those links link to for your given keyword phrase and also boost those pages rankings in the search engines. This will create long-term search traffic, which should be your ultimate goal.

Forum participation is a great way to get your name and business or work from home web site noticed by others. But, you want to get noticed by the right kind of people. What I mean is that you want to pick forums that are related to what your business or web site offers. You want your direct traffic to be as targeted as possible.

The last MUST is providing value when posting in forums. This will ensure you get noticed and bring more clickthroughs of your signature links. Below I’ll provide a list of forums I actively post in that are related to the Internet Marketing and Work From Home niche and get a great deal of traffic from…

Warrior Forum

Conquer Your Niche

Entrepreneur Forums

Work At Home Forum

Alright, now get to work and start getting involved in forums!