Forum posts are turning increasingly popular for boosting the page ranking of individual blogs and business websites.

In simple terms, forums are online communities or discussion boards where members share similar passion or interest, and are always ready to broadcast information about topics that interest other members, assisting each other with solving industry related problems.

With these great features at forums, making posts or threads that will help other users solve their problems while pointing them to your blog can increase conversions and boost sales.

It won’t alone establish you as an authority in your specialty, but will drive people’s attentions to what you sell or promote, and also help optimize search rankings for your site through the organic, quality links you get back to your site.

What Should You Understand About Forum Posting?

Forum posting has some areas of similarity with article submissions, though there are a few areas of difference. Let’s discuss the areas of similarity first.

Posts published on both online forums and article directories serve three major objectives which are:

• Delivering quality and lasting solutions to other users’ problems;
• Driving targeted/real human traffic to your own site/blog; and
• Improving your rankings on SERPs.