Out with the Old, In with the New Blogging Forums
Promotion and discussion on forums can definitely help your traffic as well as web presence. I’ve even tried to run my own forum however it proved to be too time consuming and difficult to fight the spam bots. The benefits of forums are great and I really wanted to tap into that area.
Instead I’ve tried to be active on several forums (as well as social media) because it’s important to branch out. Talking to other bloggers and conversing can really only help you expand.
Out with the Old
BloggerForum once was a great place for link exchanges, posts about new money making opportunities and a place to share your blog. They took some downtime figuring out a new way to fight the spammers. As they have re-emerged (I had no idea they were back until today) they are missing several key categories, as well as no easy way to search new posts. I was there several minutes without success.
PayPerPost Forum was a great place for me for a while. Lately their forum hasn’t become as blogger friendly, just postie friendly. My blog promotion and social media promotion wasn’t very well received the last few times. Stumble and digg requests go unanswered and blogging news needs constant bumping to keep it alive.
In with the New
Bloggeries forum has been very impressive so far. It’s one of the few “new” forums I’ve joined. Several seemed to pop up all at once. I’ve given Bloggeries forum a shot and it’s been pretty good. I’ve gotten to know the owner pretty well as well as converse with several members. The posts have already proved to be worth it, sending about 20+ unique visitors in just two or three days.
9Mb is a webmaster forum that is owned and run by Nomar. He is previously from KingNomar.com but that has been sold. The forum is a mini-digital point. They have a tight community of users who are frequent and active. It’s good for link sales, exchanges as well as blogging questions among other things.
Have you moved on to any of the new forums yet?
6 Responses to “Out with the Old, In with the New Blogging Forums”
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January 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am
I do like Bloggeries, though don’t spend nearly enough time there. The best imo is UK Webmaster World (http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com), the guy there takes an active part in promoting it, and it has gotten huge over the past few weeks
January 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Another one is the Bloggers Message Board. You may have already talked about it in the past, and if so, please understand that I’m a big goober. LOL
http://www.bloggersmessageboard.com
This is a great site. One of my favorites.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
ive never heard of it… let me guess… another garry conn creation? lol
January 29th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
LOLOLOL
How did you guess?
January 29th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
it was a longshot
Ill have to join
January 31st, 2008 at 3:11 am
I haven’t joined any of these forums but some of them are on my to do list. I am constantly looking for ways to increase my traffic and I guess making myself heard in a couple of forums might help