Webmaster and Marketing Forums that will Improve your Online Business
May 17, 2007 | Comments (3) | Filed under: Online Business
If you’re just starting your own online business, the best thing you can do to get up and running quickly is learn from those who came before you. Online community forums are one of the best ways to accomplish that. Not only can your read about literally thousands of topics, you can interact with community members who can help you with questions and problems as you go along.
Over at DoshDosh, they published a very excellent list of 26 Affiliate Marketing and Webmaster Forums. The list is very comprehensive and gives you plenty of options in a wide variety of common business areas such as search engine optimization and affiliate marketing. Many of these forums are on my daily read list and have almost single handedly helped me improve my own business when I was just starting out.
I highly recommend joining a few of these forums, and if you feel the community is complementary to your own goals and aspirations, then register for an account and visit often. Most forums offer RSS feed subscriptions as well, so you can keep up with the large amount of daily content at the same time you view your other feeds.
Here is a list of my top 5 favorite webmaster and marketing forums in no particular order:
- Wicked Fire – A great site for tips and techniques from everything from affiliate marketing to increasing traffic to your site. I really like this forum because they aren’t afraid to discuss topics on both sides of the gray zone.
- Digital Point – This forum is pretty much the treasure trove for the online entrepreneur. Any topic you could want to discuss is available, and with over 20,000 members, there are so many amazing experts to help you with your questions. If you only subscribe to one forum, make it this one…
- Earners Forum – A great location for topics such as domaining, making money, and freelancing. Lots of active and enthusiastic readers who have a lot of excellent advice for beginners and veterans alike.
- Sitepoint – This is a great place for covering more of the web design and programming aspects of online business. The owners also provide a popular tool known as the Sitepoint Marketplace which is ideal for anyone selling sites and services online.
- V7N Forum – Another great place for webmaster information including a lot of talk about search engine optimization.
Bottom line, if you’re not a regular forum reader, you really are missing out on a huge source of powerful information that can basically change the way you do business right away. It did for me and many people I know, and I guarantee it will for you to…
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Nice list, thanks for that.
I have always preferred blogs over forums. They can be great places for misinformation. If you are interested in the dark side aka Black Hat of SEO check out http://www.syndk8.net/forum/index.php
Thanks for the links to the useful forums. I will be sure to use them. I definitely have a lot to learn.