Using forums to boost your blogging profile

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips

Kevin from Blogging tips has written an article about using forums to promote your blog, there is also an interesting article on Pro Bloggers Matrix about the same topic with a slightly more extreme title. I think this is a very interesting topic to discuss. A lot of readers will probably have used forums on the Internet. I have been using them for years. Although you can come across the odd ugly incident, most of the time forums are an interesting place to discuss topics.

So how can you use a forum to promote your blog?

What forums provide you with is an opportunity make connections with other bloggers and readers. Be friendly, help people out, sell yourself and you may find that some of the people who you talk with on forums end up following your blog.

Also you can put the address of your blog in your signature on forums where this is allowed. This may get you the odd link from readers of the forum.

Here are some forums to consider that are about the general topic of blogging or web design: