Forums are a great way to get traffic to your website or blog. It is important to note that you must register and participate in any forum that you join. It is also best to find forums that you are interested in.

Generate more traffic. Become more widely known as an expert, your name and website will be mentioned elsewhere on the web, which then brings more visitors to your site.

Do not join a forum about drag car racing if you are into gardening for the elderly. Use some common sense. It is pretty easy to find forums in your niche...just google "Drag Car Racing Forums" and you will find a plethora of racing forums. The same can be said with the "gardening for elderly".

If you are into affiliate, MLM, Adsense, how to make money type of marketing I highly suggest that you join and participate in the following forums.

Conquer Your Niche: You earn credits by posting your questions or answering them. The more credits the more you can promote your products and or services.

Free Advertising Forum: You can post any type of advertising on this forum...go ahead try it....totally free.

Website Babble: A great down to earth friendly forum. Visit, post questions, answer questions just do it. Great informational type of forum geared towards the newbie marketer. You won't believe the traffic I get from posting on their forum!

Warrior Forum: The Grand Daddy of Internet Marketing Forums. This is where all the greatest internet marketing minds come to discuss, Joint Venturs, Affiliate programs, and the latest and greatest Internet Marketing techniques.

AssociatePrograms Forum: Allan Gardyne has been earning a good living from affiliate programs since 1998. And his forum is one of the best. Go ahead join and post your questions now.

Starting your own forum is not really that hard. Most webhosting companies now offer applications to help you start your own forum.

You can access these applications through the Fantastico Deluxe button in your web hosting cpanel. They are listed under the Discussion board heading. You should have Phpbb and SMF programs to start your very own forum. Installing is done automatically at the cpanel.

If you want a more robust easy to use forum you might want to try Michael Green's "How to start a forum" ebook. You can by-pass all the learning curve using his forum toolkit anyone can start their own forum with great ease.

How to start your own forum toolkit.