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In theory, it’s all rather simple.  You join a forum.  You set up an account with a signature line linking back to your website.  You begin posting on the forum, providing high-quality information and hoping to get some attention for your site.

Then you notice that the signature that appeared within your user control panel isn’t showing up on the actual forum site.  What’s happening?

It might be a forum rule.  They’re often overlooked, hidden in stickies on the top of threads or buried.

Many forums don’t allow new members’ posts to include a signature.

Others allow the signature, but apply a “no follow” tag to the photo.

There are many variations of the limitation, all of which are designed to stop would-be forum spammers from practicing their evil deeds.

If you’ve been trying to make something happen in at forum and can’t see your signature, start checking the fine print.  You might not be eligible.  You can either run off to another forum in search of a new link fix or you can wait it out and “earn your stripes“.

Similar to a magazine or ezine, a blog carnival puts together a series of posts on a themed topic. The posts are usually based on a specific topic, which changes regularly and published on a weekly or monthly basis.

You can participate in blog carnivals by searching for sites that host blog carnivals or by hosting your own. Links are collected and then posted for blog readers to click through like a magazine. For readers, a blog carnival is a great way to find information and posts on a topic of interest. For bloggers, it’s a great way to get free traffic back to their site.

Whether you’re creating your own carnival or participating in someone else’s, a blog carnival is free. You must write a post that pertains to the theme (for instance, pet care) and then submit your link to the blog carnival host, by the deadline. You can choose to participate in as many carnivals as you like, each one will bring unique traffic to your blog.

Though blog carnivals can be published weekly or monthly, the link backs to your content can continue long after it’s over as others discover your content.

Most content on the Internet today is user driven, meaning anyone can create content and post it online. The thing is that not everyone knows how to use SEO (search engine optimization) to get their content seen by search engines. If you’re one of those people who are creating content but not sure how to get it seen, consider setting up a Hubpage (hubpages.com) and let them do the optimization for you.

Hubpages allows users to create and set up their own hub for free and submit content that they retain the rights to. You can have your own website and repurpose the content or create new content on Hubpages with backlinks to your main website. Hubpages has been considered an authority by Google so the content you create may get to the search engine results faster than if you had written and posted on your own site.

Since Hubpages allows you to link back to your main site and create a user profile for free, readers can find your content and click through your main site, which is where you want the traffic from the Hubpages you create to go to. However, Hubpages can also be utilized as your main site as well which still results in free traffic.