LIST OF 100 TOP SEO FORUMS

Forums are online communities which provides the users to hold discussions, ask/research (already posted) questions, on the world wide web. Generally speaking forums are another name for discussion boards, or message boards. They enables the users to share, discuss or put the questions based on the theme of the websites.

Benefits of Forums

There are several benefits for which the forums are used,

• It's an online community where the users of the websites, can interact with the other users, and exchange tips and place questions based on the theme of the website.
• They save the information posted, and makes it readily available for the others to read the post.
• The posts get to read again and again, and the user can post the reply to the already placed post.
• Forums also allow to increase traffic to your website through repeated visits, gain creditability & build relationship with visitors.
• It also acts as a kind of Direct Advertising, that increases the ROI.

There are large number of forums online, based on the specific categories. Here we have a list of 100 Top Online Internet Marketing & SEO Forums

"BEST 100 SEO FORUMS"

S.No.	FORUMS	PR	ALEXA SCORE
1	SEARCH ENGINE WATCH	7	24,729
2	OZZU	7	32,442
3	FORUM	6	1,990
4	DIGITAL POINT	6	2,631
5	DANI WEB	6	3,215
6	SITE POINT	6	3,549
7	ZYMICFORUM	6	25,234
8	SEARCH ENGINE FORUMS	6	58,438
9	GOOGLE COMMUNITY	6	58,800
10	SPHINN	6	146,731
11	WEBMASTER WORLD HOME	5	5,397
12	WARRIOR FORUM	5	12,587
13	COMMUNITY SEO BOOK	5	29,459
14	RESOURCE-ZONE	5	37,780
15	SUBMIT EXPRESS FORUM	5	43,190
16	FORUMS TENERIC	5	57,756
17	V7N	5	78,170
18	ASSOCIATE PROGRAMS	5	99,856
19	SMALL BUSINESS FORUMS	5	146,456
20	HIGH RANKINGS	5	148,636
21	SEO BLACK HAT	5	163,616
22	SPIDER-FOOD FORUM	5	184,593
23	SEO CHAT	4	41,442
24	EWEALTH	4	42,826
25	FORUMS SEO	4	45,632
26	GOOGLE DIRSON	4	47,757
27	SEO-GUY	4	48,026
28	WEBSITE BABBLE	4	49,917
29	I HELP YOU	4	54,805
30	GEEK VILLAGE	4	56,455
31	SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISING	4	64,692
32	CLICK BANK SUCCESS FORUM	4	64,763
33	WEBDIGITY	4	69,887
34	FORUMS CENTER	4	77,951
35	FORUMS SITE-REFERENCE	4	85,082
36	DREAM TEAM MONEY	4	85,230
37	FRIENDS IN BUSINESS	4	88,146
38	A BEST WEB	4	100,539
39	WICKEDFIRE	4	105,541
40	WEBPRO WORLD	4	118,592
41	THIRTY DAY CHALLENGE	4	130,941
42	AFFILIATE-MARKETING-FORUMS 5STARAFFILIATEPROGRAMS	4	134,352
43	WEBLAMP	4	195,703
44	SITE POINT	3	3,549
45	WEBMASTER FORUMS	3	33,092
46	CRE8ASITE FORUMS	3	36,586
47	AFFILIATE SEEKING	3	47,435
48	WEBMASTER-TALK	3	50,683
49	ABLAKE FORUM	3	66,107
50	FATHOM SEO	3	66,446
51	ABAKUS-INTERNET-MARKETING	3	68,577
52	IM 4 NEWBIES	3	69,289
53	WEBMASTERDESK	3	84,188
54	SE ROUND TABLE	3	85,979
55	SITE OWNERS FORUMS	3	93,106
56	WEBWORK SHOP	3	100,547
57	WEBMASTER FORUMS ONLINE	3	111,771
58	SELF SEO	3	116,184
59	WEBMASTERS GLRSALES	3	132,940
60	INTERNET MARKETING FORUMS	3	149,787
61	FORUMS DEVSTART	3	161,203
62	WEBMASTERIZE	3	165,058
63	W3SEO	3	180,074
64	WEBMASTER-FORUM	3	192,868
65	SEARCHGUILD/SEO NEWS	3	208,577
66	FORUMS LILENGINE	3	217,856
67	MR-SEO	3	243,930
68	AOSEP	3	953,568
69	WEBMASTER-CORNER	3	1,046,522
70	SEO-FORUMS	2	24,729
71	SEO REFUGEE	2	40,511
72	SEARCH BLISS	2	50,516
73	TOP 25 WEB	2	71,742
74	WEB WORK SHOP	2	100,547
75	9MB	2	123,887
76	DAVID CASTLE	2	130,855
77	ALL COOL FORUM	2	150,667
78	SYN8	2	165,723
79	1ST SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS	2	193,392
80	OZE MEDIA	2	209,203
81	NET BUSINESS TALK	2	847,367
82	BLACK INTERNET MARKETING FORUM	2	974,203
83	DECENT DISCUSSIONS	1	123,202
84	SEO-TALK	1	202,776
85	KICK START TODAY FORUM	1	387,926
86	INBOUND LINKS FORUM	1	621,328
87	SEOA	1	1,048,904
88	SELF STARTERS WEEKLY TIPS	0	43,102
89	WEBMASTERS HELP	0	105,250
90	GPT BOYCOTT	0	123,052
91	GEEKS ON STEROIDS	0	125,214
92	MK PITSTOP	0	143,339
93	SEO1	0	149,878
94	DIRECTORY JUNCTION	0	152,021
95	SEO-DEBAT	0	300,346
96	SEO FORUM	0	355,615
97	SEO PROJECT	0	390,819
98	CAPITAL THEORY	0	422,179
99	THE GREEN NATION	0	639,158
100	SEO PLACE	0	1,321,442

Know more of these, please help me update the list.

Note: Alexa score is the measure of the traffic and unlike the Google Rank, it's measured in the same order, but in terms of the traffic and/or visitors to the website, i.e., the smaller the better.

Google Now Use Twitter Facebook And Site Speed To Help Rank Your Blog

Google originally made its name by using a Page rank system based on links throughout the web to return relevant search results to users.Although there were many search engines available before Google the page rank system simply returned better results to users.Page Rank (Googles Internal Page Rank Not So Much Toolbar Page Rank, a long story) is still the major factor in how search results are delivered and things like Back links and anchor text are still the major players and always will be.However over the years Google have added lots of other factors in how they return their search results, they claim there is over 200 components used to deliver the results we see.A couple of noticeable more recent additions to this are Social Media and Site Speed.

Social Media

Google now use sites like Facebook and Twitter in the ranking.

Danny Sullivan Article Mentioned in the video - Search Engine Land

Site Speed

The load time of your blog also has an effect in the search results, at the moment it is only a very small effect.

But page speed is important in many other ways also, people stay on faster loading sites longer and view more pages.People are more likely to return to fast blogs and the whole experience is better.Over the last 6 months i have made Spice Up Your Blog twice as fast as it was and have seen the benefits.

You can analyze the speed of your blog using the Google Page Speed Tool.

Keep up to date by Subscribing to Google Webmaster Tools On YouTube, Matt Cutts adds videos frequently and you will also get the chance to ask send your own questions, make sure to Check out more of our Blogger SEO posts.

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5 Link Building Mistakes

Link Building is an important aspect of any website SEO campaign. Lots have been written about it and that’s why we are not going to discuss here “how to get backlinks for your site “. As clear from the title of post, we are concentrating on things which should be avoided during link building campaign.

Why does anyone try to increase the backlinks? Obviously to increase SERP of site and to improve SEO and page rank. But what if same process acts in the other way? Wrong link building strategy can really hamper your site in search engine rankings. So while increasing backlinks try to avoid the these basic mistakes

1. Same/Single Anchor Text

In link building tips you will always find to use anchor text and put your keywords in anchor text. But what if you start using single anchor text in each link building technique e.g commenting, forum signature etc?

Search engines algorithms are much refined and smarter now. It would signal that they are not the natural links, rather they are manipulated for improving search engine ranking for a specific keyword. So use a set of anchor texts instead of using single anchor text.

2. Rapid Increase in Backlinks in Short Period

There are many link building companies offering their paid services to increase the inlinks in short time. By using such services your links might increase in a short time but again would it be look natural that you have 1000 links at start of January and 10000 links at the end of January?  Obviously, no.

So if it’s not looking natural to you, same is the case with the search engines. Link building is an ever going process and should be increased at natural pace.

3. Major Chunk of Links from Single Site

Your link should be well distributed over different WebPages. I have personal experience of it. My blog was having Google Page Rank 2 after few months of its creation; it was free Blogger hosted blog at that time, I tried to increase the inlinks by joining a SEO forum and took part actively on the forum and after few days my links increased, but at next Google pagerank update my blog rank came down to zero. After trying to asses what has happened actually, I came to the conclusion that it’s because my major inlinks (about 90%) came from a single site.

4. Excessive Link Exchange

Link exchange is another link building technique in which two publishers exchange their links to have good ranking. Do not exchange link excessively as it will not look natural. Google Matt Cutts said in an interview that

“At first we said avoid the reciprocal links. Really, what you need to do is avoid the excessive reciprocal links. So we added the word excessive.

Because, if you look at the Google directory, which is like the open directory in Dmoz except with PageRank and the Yahoo directory, it’s almost certain that Google links to Yahoo and Yahoo links to Google on some level.”

So one can exchange the link but if your site has excessive links to sites which have your links, then it can cause trouble.

5. Excessive Links from Low Rank Sites

Its one of the basic things in link building that a link from a quality site is better than 100 links from low rank sites. So try to get the quality link by using methods like interesting and topic related comments, writing guest posts etc. It’s better to invest time to have the permanent quality links rather than to waste hours in getting low links.

Meta Tags

The <META> Tag is a little bit different than the Tags we have already covered. The <META> Tag is known as a one-sided Tag since it requires no Closing Tag whatsoever.
Let's look at an example of how the <META> Tag is used:
<HEAD>
<TITLE> HTML Clinic - HTML Help For All </TITLE>
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="html,help,tag,clinic,free,table,form,code,">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Top-Rated HTML Resource on the Web">
</HEAD>
ALL of the <META> Tags are entered between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> Tag set. The order you put them in is not important. Enter at least these two meta tags on each page.

The Meta Tag Attributes

The Attribute and Value entries work differently in Meta Tags than in other HTML Tags:NAME=
This Attribute only serves to give the Meta Tag an identifying name. In the example, you will notice I have used two of the most common Names, "KEYWORDS" and "DESCRIPTION".
CONTENT=
All this Attribute does is define what Content is to be associated with the Name you defined in theNAME= portion of the Meta Tag.
So, now, if you look at the example above you can see I have defined my first Meta Tag as the"Keywords" Meta Tag and have included a set of keywords (with a comma after each keyword) as the Content for that individual Meta Tag.
The second Meta Tag I have defined as the "Description" Meta Tag and I have included a short, detailed description of my site's highlights as the Content of that Meta Tag.

Other Commonly Used Meta Tags

<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Your Name Here">
This tag lets you define who wrote your web page. You can use your real name, online name. or the name of your company. For example: "Bravenet Dave"<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Enter Year And Company Name Here">
This tag allows you to define when your page was created. As the writer of your page you hold the copyright to the material on it. This does not allow you to claim the copyright on other people's works even if they appear on your page.
<META NAME="CONTACT_ADDR" CONTENT="Your Email Address Here">
This tag allows you to define the email address people should use to get in touch with you. For example: "webmaster@htmlclinic.com".
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="Add Your Rating Here">
What audience is your site geared towards? Possible values: "GENERAL", "14 YEARS", "MATURE", or"RESTRICTED".
<META NAME="ROBOT" CONTENT="Enter The Value Here">
Do you want search engines to index other pages on your site? When a search engine spider visits your page it will most likely try to follow your links and index every page it encounters.
Possible values:
"ALL"
This will tell a search engine spider to follow ALL the links on your web page and index everything it finds.
"NOINDEX"
This will tell a search engine NOT to index this page at all, but it can follow any links on the page.
"NOFOLLOW"
This will tell the search engine spider to index this page, but NOT to follow any links on this page.
"NONE"
This will tell the search engine NOT to index or follow any links on this page.
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="Enter Value Here">
This tag lets you tell a visiting search engine spider when to come back and index the site again. Possible values can be any amount of time you want: "10 days", "2 months" "1 week" or whatever.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="2;URL=http://www.server.com/page.html">
You can use this tag to set up a redirection to another page. You can send your visitors to a different specific page by including this tag.
In the value portion of the CONTENT= attribute put in the number of seconds to pause, followed by a semi-colon, then type URL= and then add the address of the page you want the visitor to go to, just like this:
"2; URL=http://www.server.com/page.html".
So, after 2 seconds I would be whisked away to http://www.server.com/page.html.

Meta Tags: why you should use them

When you submit your site to a Search Engine, it sends a little program called a spider to visit your site and gather information about your site.The spider will take certain bits of information from your coding to determine what each page is about, and where and how it should be displayed to a person using the Search Engine. Most Search Engines will use your Meta Tag defined keywords and description to perform this task.
It is important to make sure that the keywords you use are relevant to your page. It is also VERY BAD to repeat any keyword more than 3 or 4 times. Search Engines will view this as an attempt toSPAM your keywords and probably drop your page altogether from the Search Engine listings.

Google +1 button and SEO

Google, the internet giant based in California, has had a strangle hold on much of the online market for the past decade. Most would struggle to find a single person in the Western World who is not yet familiar with the Google Search Engine. In fact the search engine is so popular that the phrase 'Google it' has been adopted by many Gen-Yers.
In addition to their massive presence in the search marketplace, Google also commands a large percentage of the online advertising industry, generating revenues in the region of US$35 billion per annum.
Facebook, a relatively new comer to the internet, and center of popular film The Social Network, is quickly closing on Google's market. Currently Facebook ranks as the 2nd most visited website online globally and holds over 750 million member accounts. Facebook is beginning to threaten Google's market dominance in online advertising due to the huge volume of data that the social network holds about its members. While Google's advertising model focuses around what people are looking for, specifically using search queries, Facebook's model allows advertisers to utilize behavioural targeting. A Facebook advertiser can select very precise advertising audiences by focusing on: - Age - Gender - Location - Employment Type - Education Level - Likes and Dislikes
By selecting a narrow cross section of the global audience by one or all of the above variables, an advertiser can see significant improvement in their ROI when compared with search or conventional marketing.
This is where Google Plus enters the scene. In May Google released a limited Beta of their new social network, to approximately 10 Million users. Google Plus, similar to Facebook, allows users to create profiles, enter personal details, connect with friends and join a global community online. The Google +1 button is the equivalent of Facebook's Like button - allowing users to show their approval of an idea, concept, website or product and broadcast this to their network.
It's not a new concept that Google uses a number of user specific factors to influence their search results. These have historically included the user's location, past search history, bounce rate from certain sites, browser setting and a host of other signals to indicate whether or not a search result is likely to fit the user's specific requirements or reason for search.
While not officially announced as yet, the Google +1 button will affect the manner in which search results are returned to users. The very nature of a social network suggests that people who are connected will share similar likes, beliefs and ideas, and consequently are likely to be interested in the same websites, resources and search results.
It follows then, that the connections of a user who have historically +1ed any given search result will have these sites promoted up the list of future search results due to perceived validity and relevance of that result.
So, when will this new ranking factor, or as Google now refers to them signal, start influencing search results?
That's a tough question, and it's likely only to be once the Google Plus and +1 button programs reach a critical mass. That is where the number of +1s reaches a volume and velocity that indicates considerable adoption by the searching public.
You can already see the impact of +1 within your own search results, i.e. complete a search; navigate to page 3 of the results and +1 a single result Google returned. Now complete the same search again, it's likely that the result you +1ed will be elevated within the new set of results. This is exactly the same behaviour we expect to see once Google brings +1 and Plus into full swing.
We expect that this will become a ranking factor around the end of the year, likely in time for Christmas shopping season.
What can you do to gain the maximum benefit from +1?
At present the +1 signal is only being used to influence a user's personal search results, but this is likely to change late this year so it's time to get started on a strategy to make the most of this opportunity. This way when Google flicks the switch you will receive all the benefits of being +1ed and you will surge ahead of your competitors within specific market segments.
By now your web developer or SEO firm should have already contacted you offering +1 integration; it's a good idea to get Facebook Like done at the same time. If not, get in touch with the team that manages your website and request them to place the +1 button prominently on your site. The button is pretty funky and modern and is not likely to do any damage to your branding or design. Make sure you are communicating with your clients, visitors and connections to ensure they +1 your site. The earlier you start work the sooner you will see results.

18 SEO Myths Unleashed

SEO is no more a hidden art. It has developed well in past 10 years and many things have changed around in the working of search engines and SEO techniques. Best as well as Worst thing about SEO is that techniques in SEO changes quite frequently but the goal remains the same to get Quality traffic from search engines. In these advancements there are few old or say outdated stories related to seo that are there on Internet which are no more then a myth. So in this article we will be discussing over them.

1. Myth: “Using picture links instead of text link is bad seo” Fact: Many people compromises on that and spoils their website design just to change picture links into text link as they believe on this myth but the fact is that it's wrong. Search engines equally gives preference to image links just you have to make sure that you have used proper alt tag in the image links.
2. Myth: "I can secure my web page from search engines by adding that web page link in Robots.txt with disallow tag" Fact: Again this is a myth that in this case you have used Robots.txt and have used disallow tag for the web page but still if search engine bots find external link to that web page then bots may crawl to your web page making it insecure . So, the best way to protect you web page from bots is to make your web page password protected as bots can not bypass password security.
3. Myth: “My website will only be indexed in search engines if I will submit my website in them” Fact: No, this is a myth as your website can also get Indexed from the external incoming links to your website from other websites. In case of SEO, getting indexed from external incoming links is preferred way of getting indexed then submitting site in search engines.
4. Myth: "SEO is an easy job" Fact: Well in todays world of Internet, SEO is not that easy as it used to be in past years. Now search engines have gone clever and can even punish you for using shortcut tricks.
5. Myth: “SEO is all about getting higher PR (Page Rank) ” Fact: If you are thinking that SEO is all about PR then you are wrong. SEO is to get Quality Traffic on your website. It can be in terms of Faithful readers or Potential Customers. If you are not getting Quality visitors on your high page rank website then page rank of your website is of no use.
6. Myth: “Web Sites that uses JavaScript gets penalized” Fact: Search engines are not that dumb that they will ban you for using standard technology. However their bots won't be able to follow the links via JavaScript , So it's always a better idea to use a simple HTML hyper-links along with JavaScript so that bots can easily crawl your website.
7. Myth: “All visitors lands up in the front page of my website” Fact: Search Engines gives merit to each page on the website individually and give them credit on the basis of content on that page. So visitors will directly land on the page that have corresponding information that the visitor is searching for in the search engine.
8. Myth: “A flash website have no chance of getting good SEO” Fact: Well this is a pure myth that flash page can't get a good SEO. However you will get less options of promoting that but that doesn't meant that you can't do good SEO for that. There are over 100 factors where you can still work on for getting good SEO for that flash page.
9. Myth: “Using Meta Tags with lots of keywords helps in getting higher page rank” Fact: Although Meta Tag have played a dramatic role in the past for SEO but now search engines are more clever then before , So you should only use relevant data in Meta Tags instead of filling it with keywords. In case your Meta Tags are not appropriate for your content then your website can be punished by search engines accordingly.
10. Myth: “Positions in Search Engines are guaranteed” Fact: It's not true that once you have achieved a high position in search engine then that position will never go down but still if you have done good SEO then it will alway give you some good results.
11. Myth: “SEO companies guarantee that web page you want to promote will come first in Google search result” Fact: Nobody can guarantee that which ten website will come up in google top 10, this is a sales strategy of SEO companies that they try to get more customers. In Google Help Center it is clearly stated that “No one can guarantee rankings in Google.” . Google has over 200 rules to determine results.
12. Myth: “Repeating keyword in your web page content will get a higher rank of web page for that keyword in serp (Search Engine Result Pages)” Fact: This is absolutely wrong, Search engines have gone smarter . In case you repeat the same keyword in your content then you will not only spoil the content of your web page but you can also be flagged as Spam site via search engines.
13. Myth: “When our website will get enough visitors then we will think of doing it's SEO” Fact: Isn't that funny ? But it's true i have dealt with many clients who have reacted in this way when i gave them the proposal for SEO. They might be suffering from the disease of “Chicken before the egg” syndrome.
14. Myth: “Trading link with any website will help my website to rank higher in search engine” Fact: If you are getting the back link from the website that doesn't belong to your website then the visitors coming to your website won't be interested in you website content and that will only increase the bounce rate of your website and links that you will be placing on your website for another website that doesn't belong to the content theme of your website, then you might even loose visitors because of that.
15. Myth: "Sitelinks only appear for the websites with high PR (Page rank) Fact: Sitelinks are automatically generated by search engines on the basis of traffic that the websites are getting. Sitelinks are auto generated and only show sitelinks for results when Search Engines think they'll be useful to the user. You can't do anything in sitelinks except blocking them from being displayed in search engines.
16. Myth: “I should always consider another sites's Page-rank before i link to them or ask that website to owner to link me” Fact: will that help your visitors ? Link to sites that your website visitors might be interested in and only ask for those website owners to link you back whose website visitors might be interested in content of your website.
17. Myth: “Website with higher PR (Page Rank) will always rank higher in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages)”. Fact: You should always keep that in mind that Page Rank is just 1 criteria for SERP there are more then 200 criteria for that . If search engines think that the website with lower PR (Page Rank) have more relevant content for the keyword then the website with higher PR (Page Rank) then the website with lower PR (Page Rank) will rank higher in SERP.
18. Myth: “We should place our all keywords in H1 tags” Fact: Using Header tags is always helpful in SEO but if you are using H1 tag multiple times on your web page then search engines can punish your website for that.

Now these were the few myths that we have discussed in this articles. I am sure that you will be able to over come these myths and making your website better for visitors of your websites as well as for Search Engines.