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Understanding the mood of a forum can help you get a lot of traffic. There are forums where people are suspicious of everything, then there are forums where people are starving for and are appreciative of any info you give them.
The later are the forums you're looking for. Though these are very hard to come by.
As an example, just a few days ago I found a forum on a particular topic I was covering, I spent a good hour seeing what the community on that forum was missing. I then built a list of links on my site that this forum needed, wanted, craved. I started a thread pointing to my site and immediately started receiving traffic, nearly 10,000 in a few days from that one forum thread.
Characteristics of this particular forum.
-Very niche, related to what I was covering, but didn't provide itself.
-The discussions move very slowly, not a lot of new threads, 10 a day for the whole forum.
-The most important part, the thread views are huge, 5k plus on a 2 day old thread, plenty of trolls on there just looking for info.
-The community on that forum is pretty lazy, they're always looking for others to do the work and point them in the right directions.
You find forums with these characteristics and you should be able to get some good traffic.
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