How to Find Relevant Forum Discussions
With the ever growing popularity of blogs and social voting / bookmarking sites, you may wonder if good old ‘web 1.0′ forums are still worth the effort. My immediate definite answer is “Yes” and here are my points:
- Forums are still a good source of niche news and useful tips: look at WebmasterWorld forums – its Google section is my daily inspiration.
- Many forums still “follow” the links – and even if they don’t, a link to a good page placed in the good place is an effective way to ‘bait’ for more links (bloggers research relevant forum discussions when gathering information for their new posts and will most likely link to your page if it adds value to the discussion).
- Forums are still a great way to find highly targeted audience and build connections with fellow webmasters and bloggers.
So how to look for the relevant forum threads and discussion boards. Here are the resources that help me, add yours in the comments:
- Omgili is a great way to search for forum discussions. It can be integrated into FireFox search plugins. It shows the number of related discussion for each listing in Google SERPs. What’s more, its “Forums and Discussions” tab lists all relevant discussion as well as the number of replies in each:
Update: Also visit Directory Omgili to see forums in their index.
- Board Tracker is another way to search for relevant discussions. It shows the date when the discussion was updated, number of replies and the author.
- Big Boards – that’s not a search tool, rather a directory of relevant forums. I like it because the selection is rather high-quality there.
Please share your tips, resources and experience!
Ann Smarty
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I don’t know anything about such resources, thanks, this post is very useful for me.
Google blogsearch is also very good about most forums.
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Did not know about Omgli. Looks pretty cool. Will try it out.
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I kinda think forums are a forgotten landscape on the net. Thanks for this post!
I hear you can search Omgili, BoardTracker, and BoardReader all at the same time using WhosTalkin.com
Loren Baker Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
“forums are a forgotten landscape on the net”
agreed 100%
As a moderator at Cre8asite Forums, I am perhaps biased but I know Google certainly finds many threads particularly relevant in appropriate keyword searches.
Forums differ hugely in their culture and the quality of the discussions. I have not used the tools mentioned here, but I think it’s a question of finding ones that work for you and putting your efforts in there. Certainly the rewards beat trying to inform your Twittersphere that you have something worth communicating in 140 characters and spaces.
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Forums are still good because they’re not like old directories that never get indexed or even crawled.
Forums constantly produce content so the spiders are usually crawling the site.
Getting a dofollow link on a forum is still good.
Just make sure the forum gets indexed by google AND make sure that your link is accessible without a login.
If you need to login to see your link, then google can’t see your link.
Forums are a very good source for information. I never heard of this search tool. Very good! TY
I’m a member of about 4 different forums and it seems like it’s similar to participating in niche SEO blogs. Well since I primarily go to the SEO part of these forums and if I can have a keyword rich anchor text in my signature then that’s all the better.
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Never heard of Omgili before, thanks for the tip
Will surely use it…
Thanks for Omgili ! Useful !
Nice collection! Can someone please take ownership to grow this list, i will input whenever i come across such websites?
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WebMasterWorld is the best forum and best source of SEO information. Besides, they organize PubCon, the biggest Search Marketing Conference in the world.
good information. We use Google blog search to find relevant blog information.
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Ann, thanks for this tip, I agree completely about finding a highly targeted audience – in this respect, I’d say forums are the web1.0 version of Yahoo! Answers or similar resources. I am aware of Board Tracker, even done a Ubiquity command for it, I think it’s worth making one for Omgili as well. However different forums may have different policies in regards to links (think WMW which does not allow links at all) so it is always important to first read a forum’s policy concerning links, signatures etc and try to provide some value to the forum before just spamming it with links en masse
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I confess that I don’t spend much time anymore on forums. Twitter, Digg and Sphinn have pretty much taken their place, not to mention blogs like this one. There is only so much people can keep up with.
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Thank for nice information about how to find the relevant discussions forums . Forums constantly produce content so the spiders are usually crawling the site.
Getting a dofollow link on a forum is still good.
Thanks for sharing.
I never heard of Omgili before. That’s why I learn at one new thing everyday!
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Great information, Im always looking for relevant forum content to participate in. Always great information.
This post is very useful for me, Thank you!
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I think, finding forums relative to topics that we wanted to join is good for we get to relate on the discussions, for it’s us who selects for a certain topic. And thanks for sharing OMGILI..it’s
my first time hearing this link. Any ways, was it another search engine..?. thanks for sharing.!I’ve tried using it, and it’s good for it shows details about a certain forum, whether this has new discussions.
Forums still always great resource for traffic
thanks for the valuable sharing Ann
Good tool for forum finder. I bookmark it. Thanks for information.
Nice collection, thanks for sharing.
Does ‘follow’ vs ‘no follow’ actually make that much difference?
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I agreed that relevant forum posting give great advantage for optimization of the page.
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