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tam2005 · Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

Free Promotion: Signature Advertising
By: Tammy Embrich

Signature advertising has proven to be an excellent (free) advertising source for online marketers today.

What is a signature?

A signature is a block of text at the end of your forum/newsgroup messages or emails. It includes your name, a breif blurb or saying about you and/or your business, and a link to your website or business.

What is signature advertising?

Signature advertising is simply including your signature in your postings on forums/newsgroups and at the end of any emails you send out. It is a proven fact that about 75% of people on the Internet today will click on your signature links. And it's 100% free advertising!

To make the most out of signature advertising, (if you intend on advertising through message forums or newsgroups), you need to subscribe to as many of them as possible that relate to your website or business. Always make for sure you read the posting and signature rules on each forum...important! If rules are not followed, you could be banned.

Once you have joined the forums, don't forget to create your signature.

Important Note: Always make for sure you have "always include your signature" ticked on all your profiles in each of the forums. This way, your signature will always automatically appear after all your posts. Also always make for sure you follow the character length rules in your signature in all forums.

Catchy link titles:

It is important to have catchy link titles in your signatures to entice the members to click on your links. Try different ones....create link titles with short word phrases that relate to your website or business. Signature advertising has prooven to be effective over and over again, especially in message forums. Try and make your links as creative as possible, to try and perk the readers attention and make them want to click on your link.

In message forums (related to your website or business) start out by participating in conversations...answering questions, sharing advice/tips, welcoming new members to the forums, and just having fun getting to know the other members.
There is usually a folder in the forums where you are allowed to enter your ad for your website or business promotion. Please always read any rules for those ad postings.

Important Note: It is always important to begin in each forum by FIRST...introducing yourself and telling a little about your business and what you do from home. In this introduction, leave out any ads. The Introduction folder in message forums is for getting to know other members and sharing a little bit about yourself and is not intended for ads. If you do include an ad or affiliate link in the Introduction folders, it will most likely be deleted by the administrator.

Another effective signature advertising method is including your signature with a link to your website or business at the end of all of your out-going email messages. You will be surprised at how many people click on these links.

Once you get a good amount of signature links out there in the public eye, you will soon discover more and more traffic to your website. This could mean sales for your business, someone interested in networking with you...a number of things.

Wishing you much success in your business...and Happy Posting!

[Signature-type stuff deleted. It belongs in your signature. You can click on Profile and create one. Admin.]

AllanGardyne

tam2005 · Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

Sorry about that Allan, I'll make a note of it. Wink

craigslistguy · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 150

Signatures can give you good deal of exposure from your forum peers.Some forums disallow search engine indexing so you would not have much traffic through those.But generally, signatures are pretty good for both backlinks and traffic.
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Andyz · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 909 Location: Germany

It depends.
Without no special strategy it is mostly extremely uneffective, and a huge waste of time to post because of forum signatures. I think if people would track how few clicks they actually get from sigs, they would be shocked.
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tam2005 · Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

I have found out through some trial and error that participating on forums is indeed a great way to get traffic as well as learning what you can along the way. It's also an awesome way to make friends and build relationships.

Building business relationships is extremely important as well when it comes to marketing. Wink

john2698 · Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 710

Yep, signatures can be good aslongs as you follow the forums guidelines when adding them.

Also, never spam forums and also the more and better information you give to the forum the more important you will look and the more chance that people will want to look at your sites.
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LifeofEgypt · Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Atlanta, ga

This was on of my more successful ways to promote during my early years and it still is effective today.
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john2698 · Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 710

What do you mean? Do you mean using these forums were a successful way for you to promote and it still is?
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ekalski · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 329

Using signatures works. It's easy enough to track visitors from forums by checking your stats. Or am I missing something here?

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john2698 · Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 710

Forums do work as you do get some traffic and it is targetted normally, but the downside is that if you want to keep getting traffic continously, then you have to post continuously.

So if you are just posting for advertising gain, then it is probably not so much good for you, but if you are like me and you are posting because you like this submit, you want to learn and you also want to help others that are trying to get started in the same niche as you, then forums is great as you can do all this plus have a sig if you want to get a little exposure.
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ekalski · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 329

I agree it does take effort. And it's not a get rich quick way of doing things. I, too, like getting all the information and feedback from forums.

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john2698 · Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 710

The thing with signatures is that they are not only good for traffic, they can help with branding plus if you post in webmaster type forums then there are alot of other webmasters that have blogs and things and if your site really does offer some good information then some of these blog owners may look at your site and just blog about it in their free will without you paying them or asking them.

The reasons why I say this is because I looked at my stats today and found a blog listed in there and thought I would take a look and the blogger had blogged about my site and he also mentioned how he had come to find my site and it was a forum where I have about 34 posts.
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tam2005 · Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

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