Top 5 Free Forums to Promote your Blog with a Smarter Edge!

May 13, 2011 by Daniel Sharkov|

Today Nabanita Roy is going to share an interesting blog promotion method. It involves blogs, but in a far different way than the usual “register, post meaningful replies and include a signature link”. Check it out below!

Are you tired of your strategies to promote your blog? Do you think a change in trend can get your blog traffic move higher?

If you think it is your traditional plans that are striking a blow to your blog, it is time to try out something new!

Have you checked out what’s grooving with forums and how you can utilize these platforms?

If not it’s time to do so to feel the change and make the move. For bloggers the platform provides relentless opportunities. If utilized in a proper way this can prove a makeover to your dull and drab promotional techniques.

Basic Advantages:
• A unified communication platform for your group/fans/friends/contributors
• Specific forum domain(blogging/music/sports) facilitating like minded community building.
• Can serve as a add-on widget for your blog.
• It comes for free. So cut down your marketing costs.
• Improve your blog with instant feedbacks and suggestions.

This is not all. It is swiftly turning out as a hot favorite bloggers due to its widespread connective factor. Being a group communication platform, forums is source of wide range of traffic and a way to answer your readers directly. Share-Engage-Promote-Connect are the key factors influencing it. As a blogger, you can start a forum in any of the free forums and start discussion on your blog or blogging tips on general. These will help you to connect with different bloggers of your niche and exchange information on the same. Zero investment leading to a community of your choice. How does that sound? It is not a win-loss situation, rather a win-win. So here’s a quick check list of the trendist forums you can explore:

Forums

This trendy group communication app will allow you to build a community for bloggers where you can share thoughts, ideas and post questions on your blog. It is the ultimate online hotspot where you conduct group activites with other bloggers. With advanced features like Files/folders upload, facilities for Tagging gabs( discussion), following them, marking sticky(favorite), Announcing events, Daily Digest Notifications, Pages, Private messages, customization for background/internal pages, SEO optimization facilities etc you can easily enhance your blog community online with zero expense!

Forumotion

It is a simple tool where bloggers can share information and ideas. It can help in improving your readers experience with your blog and provide excellent opportunity for exchange of opinions and experiences. it can fit easily according to your needs regardless of the size of the community you have. Special features include regular updates, thousand of enhanced skins of the best of internet technology. Thus providing an edge cutting platform to improve your readers experience in the process.

Lefora

Lefora forums provide you with unlimited allowance on number of posts and members. At a basic level a bandwith of 10 GB is allowed free. If there is need of storage on a bigger level there are options for upgrading it. There is no restriction imposed on the number of forums you start. So you can start a forum for each of your blog or can divide them according to catagories. You can also have seperate forums for your diversified blogs to get the maximum benifits.

Aimoo

This free forum provides you with certain unique features if editing and content customization is your prime focus. You can have multifunctional advanced editor options which allows members to post and reply instantly. For customizing your styles and fonts there are Rich Text Editor, Emotion icons, Smileys, Photos, Music, Videos and HTMK code enablity options.

Invisionfree

Invasion free forum allows for topic submission, tracking new posts, sorting topics by newest or oldest post. You can share, discuss and engage in conversation with your fellow bloggers and ask for feedback. You can also merge topics or split them into different topics for easier understanding. With merge and split options you do not have to write a different post if that falls under any of the existing ones.

Apart from all of these, Forums can be the perfect platform for building a community around your blog. A short description of your blogpost/ link can immediatly update your fellow bloggers about your recent activities on your blog. The best part is you reach out to the people who are interested to know your stuff. Bloggers , Social Media Professionals, Authors and people from different niche can relate with your work and can connect instantly. With direct feedback options you know where you stand, can learn, communicate and finally grow!

Nabanita is a Blogger, Web Enthusiast and a Social Media Professional. She loves reading and blogging on topics related to social media, web applications and trends. She is a self motivated social media activist helping people build bigger and better communities with forums apps. You can connect with her to know more on Twitter, Linkedin, Blogger.

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