The Forum Challenge

Here's an easy challenge for you, to add 100 links to your site in four minutes or less.

It won't work for everyone, but if you've been on the Internet for any length of time, you're probably ready to go for this.

It's a challenge, so I want you to tell me how you get on in the column field.

Here's all you have to do.

Find a forum that you've posted on a few times. It doesn't matter if you've posted on it recently. It really doesn't have to be an internet marketing forum. In fact, this probably works better with non-internet marketing forums. So think about what you're interested in. Books. Dogs. Poker. Coffee. Technical support for your ipod. Anywhere you've made a few posts is fine.

Now login, find your profile and edit it.

Find the signature. Change it to add a link to your personal homepage.

This can be a site, a blog, even your facebook profile or twitter account. If you don't have any of these, create one. Even a simple site is useful for promotion.

It's important that you're linking to a personal page, not a business page, as you want this to be a natural and non-commercial link. Almost all forums let you have links like this in your signature.

Of course, it's not a problem for you to have a few links from your personal page to your business and your products. That way, you're improving the ranking of and traffic to your personal site, and from there the ranking of and traffic to your products.

Save the signature and check out all your pre-existing posts. They should now have your signature at the bottom. If you've been around the forum for any length of time, that's going to be over 100 posts, now all linked to your site.

What's better, most of the posts will already be indexed by the search engines and rank well for all sorts of long-tail search terms.

A pretty neat result for content you've already written and is just sitting doing nothing!

Did you try the forum challenge? Reply below and let the world know if it worked for you.