The places you can use to attract members differ depending on which niche you have selected. In the Internet marketing niche, you can go to high traffic forums such as the Warrior Forum, Digital Point. These are the best places to look for members and advertise what you have to offer. Forums in other niches are a little more sensitive to advertising, so you’ll need to check with the individual rules and regulations of each forum you’re interested in.

The most common manner to use Forums commercially without paying for the privilege involves using some net etiquette. We suggest that you register, read a few existing posts to get the flavor of the conversations, then add to the ongoing conversations without leaving a signature. Just comment meaningfully.

After a day or two or when others comment on your comments, go back into your profile and add a sig that includes only one of your web properties. Keep being a good citizen by commenting and answering questions, then perhaps later, add another web link ( if you wish to ) inside your forum signature. This sig is written automatically underneath every comment that you make, so 20 comments per day on 10 sites gives you 20 more ways that people can find your site and your material.

In addition to using sig links and creating special offers, you can broker JV deals with the forum owner, or purchase banner ads. The point is that forums are a hotspot because this is where members in your niche hang out.

Other options include advertising with a pay per click engine like Google’s Adwords. You will be able to target chosen keywords. Picking keywords consisting of just one word is typically too broad to do much good and the commercial intent of most one word keywords is far too low to be useful for a membership site. Try using 3 or 4 word phrases that have low competitiveness and anywhere under 1500 monthly searches. Pay Per Click is a good option because you can pretty much get feedback right away to see if your sales letter is good enough to convert.

Seo is definitely an area that you will want to focus on. For organic search results sales pages can rank for certain phrases but more often than not content-based pages do a lot better for your desired search terms. For that reason, you should create articles that relate to the niche that your membership website focuses on. Have these articles link back to your sales page, because they will be search engine bait and can help you get more members.

Take the opportunity to use other blogs as hosts for your article content. Article syndication has a fairly good record and it is possible to get both the benefits of those who look at the article directories, and those times where your article itself ranks highly in the search engines for your desired search terms.

Some of the best things in the world are free and the web has a few of these too. Free sites such as Digg, Blogger.com and Wordpress.com are the best free website builders available. These can be used to quickly and easily create webpages that can direct potential clients to the conversion page. This type of marketing also has the additional benefit of getting back links to your website from sites hosting your content.

To Your Membership Site Success!!

Trevor Weir