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Old 09-27-2005, 11:10 PM
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Often overlooked or considered irrelevant to a sites success yet is often the most critical and important standing point. Indirect site promotion is essentially promoting your site by performing positively to a community, or by just providing a service, all of course without the hasty insistence of joining a particular forum in return.

A good example of indirect site promotion is of course attaining a good and commendable reputation at a popular and diverse forum. Then creating your own hybrid which has been made to exploit your well known weaknesses of that particular forum and the members needs. Because of your reputation and your already proven ability members will undoubtabally join on their own accord as a sort of subliminal thank you.

Don't try and capitalize off this too much though, promoting your site indirectly is a masterful art which can quite easily be abused by ambitious young members posting thousands of irrelevant and spam like posts in a desperate bid for attention which falls flat on its face before it even attempted to slump towards the start line.

The bottom line is essentially this. Contribute towards a community, give it for example good quality posts or a service such as a resident graphic designer and then you'll be rewarded in return by a free flow of their member base over to yours based off your community work and reputation. This is a proven method and not something dreamt up, it is often more successful than others such as search engine optimization; but of course requires a lot more effort time and consumption as you are essentially posting twice the amount for two forums ensuring that your post quality is up to scratch and that you are presenting a populous and interesting attitude to the fellow members.


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Old 10-02-2005, 09:11 PM
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I must admit, i couldn't agree more. :happy:

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Old 10-02-2005, 11:26 PM
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that's exactly right it's a lot more rewarding to do something and have them join as a thank you then hound people to join your site

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Old 10-02-2005, 11:36 PM
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Ah! I've gotton a lot of my members for ToyWiz forums....where I am most known at......

Plus, Im hoping to do the same here....

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Old 10-20-2005, 11:41 PM
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you were at toywiz?!


Wait, now I remember! I was there too, for a bit... me an mike. Masters of the Custom Card forum.

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Old 10-21-2005, 03:15 PM
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Nice article Mike, Your perfectly right, I do that to any forum that has a graphics section, it really works.

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Old 12-18-2005, 03:03 PM
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A good example of indirect site promotion is of course attaining a good and commendable reputation at a popular and diverse forum.
I did this on a number of forums before we opened ours, and many people joined us.

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Old 12-18-2005, 05:55 PM
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I did this on a number of forums before we opened ours, and many people joined us.
Indeed, we recieve about 90% of our hits from users visiting the site via signatures and profiles with users have read or obtained an interest.


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Old 12-19-2005, 03:16 AM
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Indeed, we recieve about 90% of our hits from users visiting the site via signatures and profiles with users have read or obtained an interest.
Just like me!

I'm well known at a few forums, especially Illegal City (just a name, folks, just a name ).

I'd hope so, as I am Sub-Admin there...

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