What is these article submission or forum posting? All these are process of Search Engine Optimization. Now you will ask what Search Engine Optimization is? Search Engine Optimization is a process which includes on page optimization and off page optimization. On Page Optimization means optimizing your website according to your keywords. Title tag which should not be more than 30 letters it is good for Search Engine point of view. Description tag which should not be more that 120 letters because if it increase that our words will not be shown in search engine. Off Page Optimization includes link building which includes article submission, social bookmarking, blog posting, blog commenting, forum posting, link exchange, links rotation, classified posting, profile creation.
Some time a question comes in mind: Article submission or Forum Posting. Are they both effective increasing traffic? Which is the most effective techniques?
Forum Posting: Forum Posting today has taken on an significant role stance in boosting SEO efforts. Forum posting simply means posting new threads or replying to old ones in forums in order to get quality inbound links to a website. If forum posting is done in the right way then it can drive targeted traffic to a website. However, if it is done incorrectly, it would result in waste of time which could have otherwise been spent on growing your business. Additionally, getting backlinks from forums that are reputed can be very beneficial. However, at times there could be a possibility of your post being edited or deleted by the forum administrator if they find that your posting does not follow their forum policy. Moreover, there may be times when the administrators may not allow any links in posts until they are totally relevant. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind the kind of posts you make in forums in order to take advantage of them.
Both are helpful in increasing the backlinks to your site. Article submission is the most effective techniques in all off page SEO techniques. It will give your website link with relevant content. But as far as traffic is concerned only articles are useful in getting the traffic to your site. Forum posting is done for getting fast back links and improve keyword ranking in search engine. So some peoples prefer Forum posting because they do not need to write pages of articles and they can also learn something while commenting or creating profile or just putting signature. If you want get to the top and build a high quality linking network u must do both. Some drawbacks of forum posting os that they allow spamming in compare to article. Article submission sites do not allow spamming because these sites never gives spam report on the other hand forum posting gives the spam report soon.
