I was visiting a bulletin board http://www.webdevboard.com/ earlier this evening when I came across a posting from a very short-sighted webmaster:

"With 360+ members, I don't think I'll 'get more views' to my site 'than ever before'. All I'm going to get is more time wasted..."

Here was my reply:

You may be right. This board may not produce "more hits for your site than ever before."

But your comment as to how posting here will be a complete waste of time is very short-sighted. If you were to post constructive messages, you might just find a few people visiting your site from this board.

My traffic comes from thousands of sites -- a few visitors here and a few visitors there. It all adds up to be considerable traffic. For the last several months, the http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/default.asp bulletin board has been generating hundreds of visitors to my domain every month. I only have one other referrer that generates more visitors to my site. My link appears in three different threads in the board -- and all original posts were placed by my customers talking about my services.

While this traffic is considerable, it does not hold a candle to the traffic generated from the search engines, but new customer questionaires indicate that 90% of my business comes through referals from my customers. These referals are either direct referals or they are the result of referals m

You might consider taking the time to post actual constructive and interesting messages in this board a complete waste of your time, but it might just be that your entire promotion schedule is also a complete waste of your time.