how do I locate do follow forums?

I wrote a post on this last Friday here

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ch-dinner.html

Get that tool, follow the instructions in the post and you will be able to find backlinks all you want. Just point the tool at a competitor or sites that you know use forum links.

The quick and dirty way is to do footprint searches for stuff like:

"powered by vbulletin" +keyterm.

Have seoquake turned on.

Look for decent PR/aged sites.

Visit them with nodofollow plugin turned on in firefox.

Check profiles are public, check links are followed.

Create profile, add a link to it, do a few decent posts with a sig link as well.

As for the profile link question. Who says they are worthless? And why would they be more worthless than the sig links you want?


If you want a hell of a lot more detail on finding footprints check the site in my signature.

Just to buff up Jazbo's suggestion of searching for footprints here is a couple i use:

“powered by wordpress” “leave a comment”
Inurl:.edu “Powered by wordpress”
Inurl:.gov “Powered by WordPress”
Inurl:.ac.uk “Powered by wordpress”

BlogEngine
Inurl:.edu “Powered by BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5.0?
Inurl:.gov “”Powered by BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5.0?
Inurl:.ac.uk “Powered by BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5.0?
“Powered by BlogEngine”

"powered by vbulletin"
"powered by yabb"
"powered by ip.board"
"powered by phpbb"
"powered by phpbb3"
"powered by invision power board"
"powered by e-blah forum software"
"powered by xmb"
"powered by: fudforum"
"powered by fluxbb"
"powered by forum software minibb"
"this forum is powered by phorum"
"powered by punbb"
"powered by quicksilver forums"
"powered by seo-board"
"powered by smf"
"powered by ubb.threads"
"powered by the unclassified newsboard"
"powered by usebb forum software"
"powered by xennobb"
"powered by yaf"
"Powered By MyBB"
"Powered by IP.Board"

Another solution would be to go and grab the best scraping tool out there 'Scrapebox' - this is probably one of the most under-priced tools I use.

Thanks for sharing these ideas.Its great to read some submit about this nowadays.

Its significant and somehow sharing this to readers like me, would make me need to surf the internet to have the ability to get much more great suggestions.

Step ONE - Choose a Word. Example: iphone
Step TWO - Choose one of these:
HTML Code:
/index.php?showuser=
/member.php?action=profile
/memberlist.php?
/index.php/forums/member/
/forum/profile.php?id=
/index.php?action=profile
/index.php/member/
/profile.php?id=
/memberlist.php?mode=
/forums/members/
/member.php?u=
/vbforum/member.php?u=
/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=
Set it up in Google so it looks like this:
HTML Code:
iphone inurl:/member.php?action=profile
And you get Indexed Forum Profiles like these: iphone inurl:/member.php?action=profile - Google Search iphone inurl:/index.php?showuser= - Google Search iphone inurl:/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u= - Google Search Click on some of the results - If you can view the Profile who having to be logged in you've got a winner! CHEERS!

I can help you by providing the list of some do follow forum's:

1 Submit express Forum

2 Harmony Central forum

3 Joomla Forum

4 Search engine watch Forum

5 CNET Forum

6 Mysql Forum

7 Digital point Forum

8 Affiliate Marketing Forum

9 Blogger Talk forum

10 Site Point Forum

11 Warrior forum

Hope this list can help you.

Thanks
nextfly.com

You can find them on Google. It will give you list of dofollow forums.

HI there, I think for locating the do follow forums you really need the help of a seo expert. It's necessary to locate the do follow forums to acquire a good PR and also high ranking.

seo expert

odd question: What is the niche?

Hey,

You can either use the search parameters as described above by posters or else make use of the 141 do-follow forums listed in the attachment to this post.

You can search with term, "keyword+FORUM". You will get list of forum related to your topic. Most of the forum allow signature and dofollow. But don't spam there.
Thanks

I don't know if you can call this "old fashioned" but I simply use SEO4Firefox. It allows you to turn on/off the ability to see whether or not a link is dofollow or not. It highlights any nofollow links in red. Then I just google "my niche forums" and browse each forum looking for signature links. It's actually scary how many forums that offer signature links are nofollow.

Simply install a firebug plugin in order to view whether the link created using forum is of do follow or no follow relation.

please do not waste a lot of money on SEO, the old fashion ways still work

Firebug is great, so is SearchStatus addon.

You can search this on Google or here in WarriorForum V7N and WarriorForum are 2 good examples of the highly respected dofollow forums on the net.

There are several tool for that listed here on Warrior.

The fact is most of vBulletin forums are dofollow.

If you are looking to find forums in any specific niche then this search term would help:

"powered by vbulletin" + intitle:SEO|google|yahoo|web design|email marketing|Adsense|Affiliate Marketing|Article Marketing|Social|Twitter|Facebook|business

this way you would have a good list of webmaster forums

Wow great tips from the senior members.

Tonight is Google domination night! =)

First of all,

Web 2.0 profile SEnuke blast is the best SEO weapon there is? Complete BS if you ask me Web 2.0 properties? Now we're talkin'!

But even with these, there are a certain set of rules you gotta follow after the latest penguin algorithm.

Niche related forums are BRILLIANT for generating traffic to your website, and I'm not talking about getting backlinks from them - that's only secondary. I'm talking about conversation participation and establishment of reputation - this is where the traffic flows from.

Besides, forget about dofollow/nofollow - this myth has been busted a long time ago

You have to face the situation taht nowadays more and more forums are nofollow links, it is really not easy to find the useful even if there are too many finding ways introduced above.

Here's some .edu ones I've been using recently:

site:.edu "forums register"
site:.edu "discussion board register"
site:.edu "bulletin board register"
site:.edu "message board register"
site:.edu "phpbb register forum"
site:.edu "punbb register forum"
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site:.edu "Powered by PunBB register.php"
site:.edu "The Following User Says Thank You to for this post"
site:.edu "BB code is On"
site:.edu "Similar Threads All times are GMT +1"
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