Anyone know of how to find the footprints for the major forums?

simpleonline1234 · 05-05-2010, 10:09 AM

I'm looking to create a simple app that will find forums for me to post on so that I can create some good backlinks but does anyone know of how to find those footprints or maybe a list of them to use?
Thanks.

ecoverbee20 · 05-05-2010, 10:25 AM

scrapebox works wonders for this. you can get thousands.

type it in google

thanks
andy

Megafoo · 05-05-2010, 03:34 PM

No one is going to spoon feed you this list.. find them on your own, it's really not hard.

dhex · 05-05-2010, 04:14 PM

inurl:"member.php?u" "Powered by vBulletin"

This will get you started.

Tom Goodwin · 05-05-2010, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhex

inurl:"member.php?u" "Powered by vBulletin"

This will get you started.

Note that I think that the first part of your search will only return V.B 3.xx sites, and not VB 4.XX sites. In addition, even on VB 3.xx sites, some have custom urls whereby the user's username will in the URL, rather than that "u" stuff.

Groovystar · 05-05-2010, 04:53 PM

Everybody assumes vbulletin is the best forum software :P

Try big-boards.com for their list of various large forums. They even list them by who has the most posts.

Tom Goodwin · 05-05-2010, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Groovystar

Everybody assumes vbulletin is the best forum software :P

Try big-boards.com for their list of various large forums. They even list them by who has the most posts.

It certainly isn't the best forum, at least for me, and i don't think anyone has stated that in this thread

dhex · 05-05-2010, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Goodwin

Note that I think that the first part of your search will only return V.B 3.xx sites, and not VB 4.XX sites. In addition, even on VB 3.xx sites, some have custom urls whereby the user's username will in the URL, rather than that "u" stuff.

Well, I just did a search using the footprint without any keyword and on page 3 there are at least 3 forums with version 4 (you may find them on different pages in your country though). I don't know why you said the query can not result in version 4 forums. Any specific reasons?

As far as i can tell both V3 and V4 have the same url structure at least for the user profile page. (member.php?u).

Most forums run with their default setting. They dont change their url structure, so if I can harvest at least 50% of whats available in Google index, that will work for me.

Brandon Sheley · 05-06-2010, 11:17 PM

It should find 4.0 forums as well, it's still using the member.php file. If the site owner doesn't have that file in their robot.txt file, it should still pull it up in google.

Tom Goodwin · 05-06-2010, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhex

Well, I just did a search using the footprint without any keyword and on page 3 there are at least 3 forums with version 4 (you may find them on different pages in your country though). I don't know why you said the query can not result in version 4 forums. Any specific reasons?

As far as i can tell both V3 and V4 have the same url structure at least for the user profile page. (member.php?u).

Most forums run with their default setting. They dont change their url structure, so if I can harvest at least 50% of whats available in Google index, that will work for me.

Well...

"powered by vbulletin 4.0" --> 1,480,000 results
"powered by vbulletin 4.0" inurl:member.php?u --> 9 results

That should be a clear indication that that is not the standard format for 4.0.x forums.

As someone who owns a VB 4.0 forum, I can tell you that the off-the-shelf setting was:

member.php?username

But, we changed our member profile permalinks to:
member.php/username

It was a one click change in the VB control panel.

Tom Goodwin · 05-06-2010, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

It should find 4.0 forums as well, it's still using the member.php file. If the site owner doesn't have that file in their robot.txt file, it should still pull it up in google.

That's correct, but 4.0 did away with the "u" that was in the proposed search string. Of course, a few sites decided to stay with the format, but those are by far the minority.

Gary Becks · 05-06-2010, 11:44 PM

I know one things for sure, if I post a long list of search strings here I'd better get major thanks for it..

Lol..

Ok seriously, here a few for some not so "major" platforms that will get you started.

XMB-"Powered by XMB" inurl:action=viewpro&member
YaBB "Powered by yabb" inurl:action=viewprofile
Xoops "Powered by XOOPS" inurl:userinfo.php
VB 4 "powered by vbulletin" inurl:entry.php

Hopefully this gives you an idea of how to find them on your own..

Gary..

pb3847 · 05-06-2010, 11:51 PM

yeah, if you already have your keywords then it shouldn't be too hard to find forums that you're looking for

keyword + forum

done.

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dhex Active Warrior Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 66 Thanks: 19 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Anyone know of how to find the footprints for the major forums? inurl:"member.php?u" "Powered by vBulletin" This will get you started.

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pb3847 Warrior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone know of how to find the footprints for the major forums? yeah, if you already have your keywords then it shouldn't be too hard to find forums that you're looking for keyword + forum done.