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How to find relevant forums in non-IM niche--any tips?

by Alohatom
22 replies
Hey warriors..

Been getting bogged down here--any tricks/tips on finding relevant forums in non-IM niches?

Goal is to build authority for site author by being active and relevant to the forum, NOT selling.

Niche = women's health/ feeling great over 50/ exercise/ diet/ looking younger.

Any tips on how to quickly find forums that allows a link back to site in the signature--for example and search strings I can use?

Been to Big Boards, not much help.

Thanks!
#find #forum #forum marketing secrets #forum marketing traffic #forums #nicheany #nonim #relevant #tips
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    inurl: women's health forum intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: exercise forum intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: weight forum intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: beauty forum intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: women's health boards intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: exercise boards intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: weight boards intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: beauty boards intext: "powered by smf"
    inurl: women's health forum intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: exercise forum intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: weight forum intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: beauty forum intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: women's health boards intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: exercise boards intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: weight boards intext: "powered by vbulletin"
    inurl: beauty boards intext: "powered by vbulletin"

    You can load all these terms into G keywords and find thousands of LSI keywords also. This list would be endless. As are the number of forum platforms you could search for.
    Your best bet would be to use a tool like Hrefer to do wider searches and cut your time searching by about 99.99%
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin McNally
    Some good search tips from Kevin.

    Here is another site that will keep you busy for a while.....

    Drop My Link - Find sites to create backlinks on
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkBrook
    Kevin nice you have given all what anyone need for good sites to make there links on them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janice Stacy
    inurl:register.php “powered by XennoBB” + “Xenno Group”
    inurl:"action=register" + "Powered By MyBB"
    inurl:"?a=register" + "Quicksilver"
    inurlp=new_user + "PHP-Nuke "
    inurl:register.php + "Powered by PunBB"
    inurl:panel.php?act=register +"powered by UseBB"
    inurl:member.php?action=reg "Powered by XMB"
    inurl:register.php "powered by fluxbb"

    These are all useful search terms to find niche relevant forums. Hope it will help you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by Janice Stacy View Post

      inurl:register.php "powered by XennoBB" + "Xenno Group"
      inurl:"action=register" + "Powered By MyBB"
      inurl:"?a=register" + "Quicksilver"
      inurlp=new_user + "PHP-Nuke "
      inurl:register.php + "Powered by PunBB"
      inurl:panel.php?act=register +"powered by UseBB"
      inurl:member.php?action=reg "Powered by XMB"
      inurl:register.php "powered by fluxbb"

      These are all useful search terms to find niche relevant forums. Hope it will help you.
      Sorry Stacey if you read up the post you will see I have already covered this.
      Your search strings will not find niche anything as they are general strings that would pull random forums and nothing niche specific.
      You need to add the intext: keywords and inurl: keywords to find niche related forums.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sam page
      Originally Posted by Janice Stacy View Post

      inurl:register.php "powered by XennoBB" + "Xenno Group"
      inurl:"action=register" + "Powered By MyBB"
      inurl:"?a=register" + "Quicksilver"
      inurlp=new_user + "PHP-Nuke "
      inurl:register.php + "Powered by PunBB"
      inurl:panel.php?act=register +"powered by UseBB"
      inurl:member.php?action=reg "Powered by XMB"
      inurl:register.php "powered by fluxbb"

      These are all useful search terms to find niche relevant forums. Hope it will help you.
      Yeah .. really good
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  • Profile picture of the author competent123
    you may wish to check the largest forums.

    the best option for you is to check - The Biggest Boards - Size Matters

    it will show you the largest boards for a given industry.

    works for me all the time.

    and btw, this thread is 7 months old, please try to check the dates while posting.
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  • Profile picture of the author SashaLee
    Hi there,

    Great post Kevin! Thank you

    All the best,

    Sasha
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  • Profile picture of the author Cassano 10
    Use alexa's categories to find such authorities
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  • Profile picture of the author owais211
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    A great list from Kevin there.....
    Hope that would do a great deal in the niche which would work for you.
    Thanks Kevin.
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  • Profile picture of the author martbost
    Building off of what was already mentioned, I use Scrapebox to comb through my huge list of footprints like what you saw listed already along with my search terms. It does a great job filtering through them.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by martbost View Post

      Building off of what was already mentioned, I use Scrapebox to comb through my huge list of footprints like what you saw listed already along with my search terms. It does a great job filtering through them.
      I love using Scrapebox for finding forums & posts.

      Fire up scrapebox, plug in a few thousand niche related keywords, tick the "24 hours" radio button, add forum footprints, and start searching. After a minute or two it has found hundreds of brand new posts from niche related forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author ZerocooI
    you may wish to check the largest forums.

    the best option for you is to check - The Biggest Boards - Size Matters

    it will show you the largest boards for a given industry.

    works for me all the time.

    and btw, this thread is 7 months old, please try to check the dates while posting.
    Thank you for this post. I have never came across this before. Very useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexchen23
    WOW.
    Nice. great info.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author James 0
    You can also search for them like this in Google: Niche + Forum

    For example, Internet Marketing Forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author austria
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    also you must check the alexa ranking of those forums, if you want your work to give positive big results
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  • Profile picture of the author PedroPenduko
    You may also try searching facebook groups for specific niches
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  • Profile picture of the author gammon
    I think FB group is another place as Pedro Said.
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  • Profile picture of the author monamali
    Building off of what was already mentioned, I use Scrapebox to comb through my huge list of footprints like what you saw listed already along with my search terms. It does a great job filtering through them.
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