How do you does forum promotion, simply participating in other forums and putting signatures there with some useful topic not to just let know moderators that its something kind of spam or do you does in more decent ways? Have you used Craigslist to promote forum? How were the responses?

Forum posting is a good way to promote unless and until you are spamming in the board. Also their are other methods like social bookmarking, social networking. Try to add some good and unique content so that visitors gets attracted to your forum. You will get good response for any type of promotion technique you apply, if you have good content and nice thing to offer.

Forums are a great way to share and expose your thoughts and problems. If you are adding some value to the forum through your replies that is useful to both members and forum it will not be consider as spam though you promote your website. Saying about craigslist, i haven't used them till now. I get confused when i visit that site.

Most forums have the marketing section, you could invite people there.

No doubt forum posting is a good way to promote business but we should deal with only relevant forums. Laving links at irrelevant forums make no sense. Most web owners ask for the business results not for the no. of links. I always prefer genuine procedure.

it's clear that forum posting help successfully to generate traffic to your site.
Some of newbee have never done forum posting to get backlinks because they consider them to be worthless. A new user is never allowed to put links in sig or in post. But in fact, Also ive seen that some people here are having great luck with it.
post 1 or 2 times a day in threads you can actually respond to and build it up from there.

We got to do something to distance ourselves from the pack. Send the members emails or private messages thanking them for their contributions. No one likes absentee forum administrators. Post regularly on complementary. Creating a space for the members to blow off steam, tell jokes, and talk about their other interests will allow them to create friendships and unwind.

forums posting is the best way to promote your business and easy also. article marketing, social publishing and blogging.

posting forums is very important as it gives you back link help improving your website business and great way to promote your website as well

It also includes two links that will help support forum. Each time we click on one of the links, this forum is advertised by placing our link at the top of the website that we are linked to. So, each click helps support this site and hopefully even brings in new members. By bringing more people to this forum, more people see our sites, whether it's on the portal page, at the top of the forum, or in a post.

I spent a lot of time on forums and I comment sometimes to much(spam limit). I think, after directory submissions it the second best way to obtain valuable backlinks.

Forum posting is an easy way to get targeted traffic, links and brand awareness. Forum can help your business grow but you must take the work seriously.

Ya participating in forums is a great 'Thing' for a SEO point of view. But now a days many forums are No follow icluding this forum so there will not be any effect in PR in signature point of view but it bring traffic to your website by the way you had given title for your signature.

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Forum posting is also a great way to increase web traffic and increase do follow links

Forum posting is on of SEO techniques or called Off Page Optimization...
It's can do with makes forum signature with backlinks ...
I thinks it was help to increase traffic and PR for your website ...

Thanks

You need to have a good homepage where you can direct all the interested visitors on your forum to discuss your niche. IMO forum alone is very hard to promote w/out having a homepage.

Using your sign (add links to it)
And participate to forums ..