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So you have a professional looking website however you are not happy with the current search engine rankings for its key phrases. You would like to appoint an web marketing agency to help the site to gain higher rankings but you just do not know who you can trust. Does this sound like the predicament that you are in? Would you also like to obtain higher rankings for your website? If you have answered yes to one or both of these questions then this article could well be worth a read.

I am an experienced webmaster who has a large number of websites online. My main website has been online for over ten years now and a massive amount has changed in the world of SEO in that time.

I have to admit that I knew next to nothing about the best ways of promoting a website at the outset. I naively believed that as long as the site had been designed and built in the correct manner that that would be good enough and that the quality of the content would do the rest. This however was unfortunately not the case, one-way backlinks were not something that I had heard of!

I hired a number of different SEO companies and so called web promotion experts. So what was the result of hiring these people and companies? Well let’s just say that the results were less than impressive. This was very disappointing and left a sour taste in the mouth; I had wasted a lot of money on false promises. I have met many other associates who have also had the same bad experiences with these novices.

I then went about educating myself on the best ways of promoting a website and ten years down the line believe that I now have an excellent knowledge of web promotion, SEO and link building. The websites that I own are riding high in the search engine rankings and I now also offer a web promotion service that works (webpromotionuk.co.uk).

A strategy that works in getting more visitors clicking on a link to visit your website is by using online forums. Regardless of what you are promoting, you should be able to come across at least one forum that covers that niche.

Of course, you need to try to locate multiple, popular forums to use. The more members a forum has the more traffic you will end up getting to your site. This article will explore the best ways to use forums that will help drive traffic to your websites.

A vital point to note when advertising on forums is that your prospective traffic will be coming from more than one source. The first source of web site traffic is generated from within the Internet forum itself. People will come across your link and if it is interesting there is a good chance they will click the link to visit your site. Your visitors are already targeted since they are members of an online forum related to your niche. The second traffic source is as a result of your own involvement in the forum such as making comments or asking questions. Whenever you do this you will be leaving link a which will help raise your search engine rankings.

Now go ahead and look up forums that are related to your own particular niche and register on them. However, don’t go over the top and join more forums than you can handle for leaving comments etc. As a forum member you are given the opportunity to put up your own member profile where you can place a backlink to your blog or website. To speedily get your forum profile back links found by the search engines, a good idea is to ping the URLs of all your forum profiles.

Forum signatures should be tackled next and you should insert hyper linked keywords into them that will take people to your webpages. Having done this every time you comment on the forum the signature with its backlink will be shown too. Still, you will have to realize that several forums will not allow you to add a signature until you have made a specific amount of comments, normally 10, but all forums will require different amounts.

Now all you need to do is to log in to every Internet forum every day and participate in the discussions on the forum. By being an active forum member you will increase the amount of back links pointing to your site which is good for search engine rankings and more members will see your links too. Another thing you will learn is that the forum pages may also get a good ranking in the search engines, so even those who are not members of the forum, may end up finding your links. If you are an active forum member, people will see that you have spoken on a specific topic before which can gain you an ‘expert’ status and give further weight to your backlinks.

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This post was inspired by revisiting some of the old tools I used in the past and I thought why not pay a visit to memory lane on some of the tools and sites that brought online marketing to where it is today.  Do note – this is just a small list of random tools that came to my mind at the point of writing, so I know there would be others that I missed out.

Keyword Research: GoodKeyword tool, this is a free keyword tool where one can conduct keyword research. The data is pulled of overture, but since overture is pretty much not maintained I guess the tool wouldn’t be that useful.

Competitor Analysis: Alexa ranking at one point in time was the only place where we could openly get competitor stats for free. The toolbar helped tracked user behavior and how many people visit a particular site. However as the data is skewed towards individual who had installed the toolbar many had question the accuracy of the rankings.

Site Indexing: In the past when launching a new site it used to take about months to get the search engine spiders to find your site. One of the tools Google came up with to help them be aware of which sites are new would be the Add URL page. Found here – www.google.com/addurl.html. These days Google can index your site in hours, so no need to manually submit your site anymore.

Search Engine Rankings: DMoz.org the webs open source directory. It was known as a source of authority, getting listed here means you have a very powerful inbound link to your site. Ran by volunteers, the site was the crazy for many webmasters and SEO professionals. These days, it’s more like a forgotten site where having a link is good to have.