Areas of Similarity between Forum Posts and SEO Articles

Content made for both online forums and article directories must be structured around thoughtfully selected keywords and must deliver the most relevant information to the ideal audience.

Forum posts and SEO articles must be topically-relevant and must tackle specific problems faced by your target audience – those who are passionately interested in your specialty!

Like in writing valuable and presentable articles, forum posts must be free of fluffy content. If your posts are full of mere messages thanking or appreciating the recipient for a previous message, post, or comment, you’re not going to get results with that; eventually, you’ll risk losing posting privileges, getting posts deleted, getting forum accounts permanently banned or temporarily suspended.

Conversely, you’ll continue to build reputation if your contributions are found to be helpful, useful, and engaging for other forum users. Not that alone, you’ll also end up establishing yourself as an expert or authority in your specialty and will be followed and respected by other users in all opinions that come from your desk.

For both forum posts and published articles, you must make your posts only to niche-related sites, otherwise, you’ll get low-quality links back to your site, and this typically results in getting severely slapped or penalized by most major search engines. Keeping SEO in mind; you need to find and submit your written articles to the most relevant directories.

And for your forum posting endeavors, you must find and make your posts/threads to forums (dofollow or nofollow) that are most related and relevant to your topics.

If, for example, your specialty is about pets breeding, it’ll be pointless for SEO to contribute within communities that provide affiliate marketing support. If you carefully select a good number of high PR niche-related authority forums and contribute there, you’ll discover that you’re not reaching out to your ideal audience alone, but also generating tons of high-quality links back to your blog which will impact your page rankings positively.

Above all, in order to maintain a good standing with the platforms you’re posting to, make frantic efforts to abide by all posting rules lest you risk your account getting suspended or hundreds of posts getting deleted with the click of a button.