What is Signature Advertising?

You join a forum of your niche and post in that forum with an advertisement of your forum in your signature. Other members of that forum will see your signature and click on the link to goto your forum. This a free advertising method that hardly works.

Is this kind of advertising worth it?

Signature advertising is not worth it in my opinion. It is very time consuming and conversion ratio is very less. You have to look for active forums in your niche, join them, actively post in the forums and wait for members to click your signature link to goto your forum. The visitors you get this way is itself very less, forget the visitor to member conversion. Think this way, why would a member of an active forum will visit and join another new forum in the same niche? I’d assume that most of the forum owners trying this kind of advertising has recently started their forum or owns a dead forum. Unless its a non active forum, no body wants to try such kinds of advertising methods.

Note To All Those Forum Owners

A lot of people claim that signature advertising is one of the most effective method of advertising for your forum because you target niche people. It is a false claim and to be honest, this method is a waste of time. Try this only if you have all the time in the world. I would utilize this time in getting content to my own forum rather than giving content to other forums. Most of the people who claim this don’t own an active forum themselves. However this is not a complete waste method. It can be useful if you know the right way. Read below : -

So Is This A Total Waste Method?

Not really. It is a not completely waste method. You will have to apply some special tricks if you want it to work. If you cannot apply those special tricks, then this method is not for you. For those special tricks, you will have to wait for another day. Visit my blog tomorrow to read the next half of this article. I am going to tell you how to make this advertising effective with a few tricks. Stay tuned.