Another quick tip to make your article marketing more effective is to make your author's resource box look like a continuation of your article. That way when the reader gets to the end, they won't just stop reading. For instance, if you're doing a 'Top 3 ways to get traffic to your forum', then you would make 'Number 3' the information about how your site could help increase traffic and hint at some of the site's content.

Don't forget to include a search engine friendly, keyword rich link along with a hard link (hyperlink) to your site, forum or blog.

Sometimes, a site owner will take a copy of the article from the free article site and paste into text editor first before putting on their own site. And, this strips out all code and hyperlinks. For this reason, you need to include a copy of your website or forum's actual address, i.e. http://mysite.com in the signature link, just in case it doesn't transfer otherwise.

If you have any more tips on how to use free articles to get traffic to your forum or site, please comment below.