You’ve built the perfect web site (in your eyes at least) and that most-important traffic is out there just waiting to visit you. You’ve done your research and followed the customary methods for making people aware of your site, and you’re now sitting there playing with your Slinky, regularly checking your traffic stats analyzer in case you get a sudden gush of visitors. Of course, unless you’re a big business with massive promotional effort behind you, those days of awe-inspiring traffic are quite a ways off. So while you wait for your search engine submissions to garner their reward, is there anything else you can do to help yourself?
Short answer. Yes, there is. And it’s a technique that isn’t discussed much. What is it I’m talking about?
Forums. Now don’t run off in a huff just yet. Not only will you build up a small amount of traffic in the first few days of launch (a few hundred visitors easily) but you’ll acquire a ton of priceless feedback about your site that can help you to make changes before the search engines send out their spiders. What could be better than free evaluation?
But, first things first. If you’re not familiar with forums they can best be described as the collective discussion area of a web site. If you’ve never used one before don’t be afraid. They’re not as intimidating as you might think. Go take a look at a few to see for your self. Read some of the topics and look at the messages people have posted. Nobody is going to jump out at you and ask what you’re doing there. Really, they won