Ranking on the warrior forum

Hi Warriors,

I have a question about ranking in the search engines using the warrior forum.

As you know the warrior forum is a powerful domain and I plan on using this power for my own list building.

I plan on doing keyword research and writing reviews and ranking the warrior forum posts in the search engines.

My question is which section is best for ranking or does it matter which section you use?

I already know you can rank pages very well using the classified ads section and your new posts rank in the search engines almost instantly and with a bit of back linking you can get to number 1 without much effort.

But it does cost $20 each post you make. My question is this....

As you all know we all get a warrior forum blog and I was wondering if your FREE blog post will rank just as good as a post would in the classified ads section?

If it would then I think I will just use my blog from now on.

Also I get a lot of views on my blog posts. Where do the views come from? Is it other warriors looking at the blog section? Or does the views come from the search engines? The reason I ask is because I can't see a blog section to look at in the forum so I'm wondering how people are finding my blog posts so quickly?

Maybe there is a blog section in the forum where you can see all new blog posts?

Thanks for your help in advance

Lee