Forum posting refers to generating quality inbound links by participating in online discussion forums to reply to old and new questions to drive traffic to your site.
There are several popular types of forum websites such as online discussions like message boards, discussion groups and forums, and bulletin boards. You need to sign up on these websites to submit topics for discussion.
Some of the popular forum discussion sites are:
Yahoo Answers
Digital Point Forums
WarriorForum
Mylot
Webhostingtalk
Stackoverflow
Google Product Forum
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