Another way to obtain traffic to your blog, or for any website for that matter, with the intent of making money online, is to join in on forum discussions. And as you more than likely already know, a forum is a website about a specific niche or topic that you can join and participate in discussions about certain topics.

You find forums by entering keywords into the search engines about your niche, or area of interest. You would simply enter in the name or keyword of your niche, then follow it with the word "forums". Then search the results that the search engine comes up with from your search.

Make sure during your search, that the forums you visit are pertinent to your Niche and that they are bustling with activity. You can tell if a forum has a substantial number of members who are activity participating by checking the dates of the posts and count the number of posts or threads.

Now that you are a member of one or more forums, you want to introduce yourself as most forums suggest you do when you are new. When introducing yourself, remember you are not there to directly sell or promote your product. There will be plenty of opportunity to very indirectly introduce what you have and to make money online. But don’t ever do it directly on the forum.

Once you have joined and have introduced yourself then it is time to participate in a way that interests people in what you have to say. Yes, you may be participating in a forum to make steady money online, but you do it by following all the rules of the forum and post comments that are pertinent and that are useful to the topic of discussion. Do not directly sell people anything in the forum.

So you may ask, how do I make money online easy with forums if I can’t directly sell to members of the forum? I have given some clues to answer this question but let me be direct. You make money online from forums by making people familiar with you and by gaining their confidence. You do that by posting relevant and useful "on subject" posts. Follow that procedure and it becomes easier to make money online because members will visit your blog or other url’s you may be interested in having people pursue. It’s the information in your url that will eventually sell them on your product or service. They will be more interested in and visit your blog because your credibility will have already been built by the informative comments you have made in the forum discussions.

People know how to reach your blog url because most forums allow its members to include that or other contact information in the signature line of every post you make. Be sure not to put this information in the body of your discussion because that is not proper etiquette and does not serve your purpose of gaining forum members confidence in you. Doing it wrong will result in you not making money online from this source.

We have covered how joining a forum will satisfy your "how to make money online ideas". I reiterate that you follow the rules of the forum because you are there to impress not to sell. You’ll not necessarily make money online fast or easy from your blog by doing this, because it’s later, being impressed, the forum members will click on your blog link that is found properly placed in your forum signature line.