You’ve signed up for Google and you’ve got your website up, now what? Well to make any money you’ve got to start getting visitors. And not just any visitors: targeted visitors.

Of course you’ve got great keywords, you’ve optimized for the search engines and tweaked your content. What else can you do?

You can join forums and discussion groups that relate to your site’s niche. Search discussion group sites like http://yahoogroups.com and http://google.groups.com for groups that are relevant. You can also search for discussion groups by subject matter. Type in the search engines +discussion +groups +mothers +young +children, for example.

Another alternative is to find websites that relate to your website that have forums. There’s a huge forum for writers at AbsoluteWrite.com, for example. Many publications on your topic will have forums as well.

Join these discussion groups. In your profile make sure you keep your signature short and sweet but do include a one sentence description of your site and a link.

When questions come up, or the conversation focuses on your topic, you can post a short answer and then mention there is an article or suggestion that would be helpful to the members at your site and give the link. Of course don’t spam the members or just post one or two word answers, like

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