- Link Popularity – The weight of the links in the forum is generally low for Search Engine. If there are hundreds or thousands posts with related links back to you site its targeted that is a lot of targeted links linking to your site.
- Ideas – Forum contains thousands of topics that can be easily determined which are popular and hot. Marketers can get ideas from forum (posts, replies, comments) and make use of them for the content of their site and blog.
- List Building – forum is a good place to collect email addresses and names. You can put your opt-in page link in the “signature” area.
- Name Branding – You as a marketer can build a good reputation for yourself and for your business. That can be done if you will make yourself known to somebody in the forum; by helping others. That way, people may think that you are an expert in your chosen niche, and they may keep on coming back to you. Possibly, they may ask a product that you may recommend for them – recommend your own product or your affiliate product.
- Special Offers – marketers can directly sell or promote their products in the forum like in the “Warrior Forum”, where it has a special area for “Special Offers”.
- Help and Advice – Marketers can use the forum if they need help and advice.
- Joint Venture Opportunities – Internet marketers use forum to find a business partners. Usually, they contact the one who is more knowledgeable, has a good reputation, popular, and has a brand name in the forum.
