forum is more effective provided you are well-known member, people trust you and what you recommend most will atleast take a loot at it.
Well, every marketing forum I know requires any and all vendors to first be registered. This is policy due to the large amount of trash out there and marketing forums have enough to deal with without the spammy trash that comes to us.
Forum marketing for registered businesses that pass the "smell" test do very well marketing to members when they engage the members and help them earn.
blog posting from seo point as they get indexed quickly whereas forum posts have slow indexing and spammed profiles don't index at all.
Actually forum posts generally get indexed and found in the SE's much quicker. It's because when they are deemed "safe" content providers by the SE's, they become a trusted content source. I generally see threads and posts here being indexed within hours typically.
Blogs, well, there are so many and if they are not established, or provide forbidden content, or don't add valuable pertinent content regularly and frequently, or are obvious affiliate sites, then they get no attention to speak of by the SE's. Blogs are the most abused neglected content platforms on the planet. It's well known and widely accepted that more than 80% of blogs fail and are abandoned in less than six months. This is not true with forums, likely to the simple fact that forums require planning, commitment, and significant investment and therefore are more indulged by professional business people and/or entities.
SEO always has been, and always will be, a tertiary traffic source and there is no business on the planet that can point to SEO for it's businesses success. They can only point to SEO as having a supporting impact on successes. I had a few very fast cars in my life, and one thing that every fast car owner can tell you is that there are a few very minor tweaks and addons that can add two or three percent to performance, but those tweaks and addons are useless if you don't have a major high performance car and engine to add them to. That's what SEO is, it is a tweak or addon to your performance car. It is TERTIARY! SEO adds to success, it does not create a path for it when it comes to business!
