Find in Forums blog

Looks like a lot of DP members got banned from Digg, because of the “digg me and I digg you” threads, they talk about it here, my account got deleted too, but that’s not going to stop me :p

Did digg ban you too?

Cash contest are getting very popular lately. We’ve seen a lot of SEO contests, and now there’re contests just to help get links or draw people to new forums.

It seems to be the next big thing on the web and along with social bookmarking stuff it will be the next seo method.

Well, first there’s this stupid $1000 contest at earners forum and some other free stuff, that actually caused shoemoney get involved and blog about it.
That forum is actually quite funny, they say the contest is $20,000, but actually it’s just $1,000 and some other stuff which they say is worth another $4,000, besides that you get to see how little everyone is making and how proud everyone is about it

I’ve joined, but I’m not going to go any further and submit some stupid application. I’m sure their so called hidden forums have nothing really interesting anyway, just another good marketing trick to get people interested and involved. Actually I like the way they managed the contest, there’s a lot to learn from it, now lets see if it’ll stick and if the forum will be popular after the contest is over..
Shoemoney is also arranging another contest himself. This is really lame, and I can’t believe I linked twice to shoemoney’s blog in one post, he definitely knows how to get links to his blog. Anyway, now he owes me a trackback

So all this stuff kinda gave me an idea to make a contest too, once I launch my findinforums forum, which should be quite soon, I’ll also arrange a big cash contest

DigitalPoint is a popular SEO forum, but now it’s going to be even more popular, after Matt Cutts, joined the forums.

My bet is every his post will now be followed by 50 pages of newbie questions like “Why is my site banned?” and “Why I lost my rankings?” or “Why google didn’t ban this spam site”, so he’s going to be the next DP idol, and even before he started posting in DP there was a thread about it already

Hopefully he can help us understand the google mess and I also hope not all of his posts will be 1 line long. So far Matt made 3 posts, but we’ll be watching closely
So welcome Matt, enjoy the forums

Well, I’ve promised to talk about forums here, so I’ve decided to compile a full list of all SEO forums

Since I’m a member of most of them, this shouldn’t be very difficult, though I’ll only list the rather big ones. If I missed something please let me know.

I’ve organized them by their size and my preferences

Top 10

• Digital Point Forums
• Thread Watch forums
• Webmaster World Forums
• Earners Forum
• Search Engine Watch Forums
• SEO Chat Forums
• SEO Guy Forums
• Site Point Forums
• SEO Roundtable forums
  
• High Rankings forum
• V7N forums

Next Best

• Abakus Internet Marketing forums
• Dani Web forums
• Search Guild Forums
• Search Engine Forums
• Cre8asite forums
• HTML Forums
• Ozzu Forums
• SEO Refugee Forums
• Search This Forums
• Geeks on Steroids

New / Small forums

• Webmaster Talk
• Spider Food Forums
• SEO Talk Forums
• SEO Meeting Forums
  
• SEO Project Forums
• Frog Engine forums

Not Recommeneded / Black Hat SEO

• IhelpYou forums - not recommended
• Syndk8 - Black Hat SEO forums
• Black Hat Forum

Other Forum Lists

• SEO Company list
• SEO Book Forums List

This is the initial list, it’ll be updated frequently.

If you know any SEO forums, not listed here, please let me know I’ll update the list

That will be the first post about forums here. The site is called Find in Forums, remember?
Later we’ll have here reviews and interviews about the most visited forums and you’ll be able to vote and introduce your forums.

I’m using these:

• DigitalPoint Forums
• Threadwatch
• FrogEngine
• SEW forums

there’re many more, including a few of my own, but I’m too lazy to write them all here

Now lets see what forums do you use? Mention a few of your favourite ones