Forum marketing is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to a website or affiliate program, especially in the early stages of marketing. As well as being free it is also quite time efficient, and allows you to reach your target audience guaranteeing highly targeted visitors.

Forum marketing involves identifying online communities that fall into your target audience for your website or affiliate program. The most effective online communities are forums. Be sure to join forums where your target audience reside or that are based on the same topic as your site or related to the product you are promoting.

Once you sign up to a forum be sure to create a signature promoting your site/product. Forums vary. Some will allow you to place banners in your signature while others allow only text. Be sure to read the forum rules so that you don't get banned by the admin for violating the rules.

Once your signature is sorted out, simply try to get involved in as many threads as possible. Remember that the more you post the more people will see your signature with your advertisement.