Internet Marketing Forums
the best of the internet marketing forums -by Phil Wiley.

Becoming a "name" on the Internet marketing forum scene can drive lots of traffic to your site. So you should set aside some time every day to work the forums or discussion boards.

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When Greg Schielsman first started his jvmarketer web site a couple of years ago he says he got over 250,000 hits to his site in the first month. Much of that, he said, was from working the forums. My own success with forums is far more limited, but I've noticed that my traffic triples when I spend an hour a day answering forum questions, or even posing questions I need answering. So they're well worth participating in.

And not just for the extra traffic, and sales, they can bring you.

The best forums have become communities of like-minded people... they're meeting places where we can all share our knowledge or seek advice or make friends in the same business as ourselves.

If you never visit them you should definately make a start right now. But.... and it's a big but... with the vast majority of the internet marketing forums you'll just be wasting your time. They either don't have enough traffic to warrant your attention, or they're filled with ads and the spam of people promoting mlm's and affiliate programs.

So just what does makes a forum good?

* a sense of community

* meaningful discussions

* high activity

* the quality of the posts

* the lack of ads due to a strong moderator

* their ease of use

* the friendliness of the participants

Here's my current top forum list - ranked by the above criteria

Anthony Blake's http://www.ablake.com

Duncan Carver's Exchanging Ideas http://www.exchangingideas.com

Jim Daniel's http://bizweb2000.com/wwwboard/

Steve MacLellan's http://www.homebusiness-websites.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Friends in Business Board http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/forum/

Jim Wilson's Get high Forums http://gethighforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi

Jim Turner's http://talk.webprofitsource.com/

The Deadlock Message Board http://deadlock.com/bbs/

Greg Schliesmann's http://www.jvmarketer.com/discussion/

Marty Foley's Biz Gold http://www.bizgold.com/forum

Ron Ruiz's http://www.free-publicity.com/

Dale Reardon's http://www.professionalwebhosting.com/forum/

No doubt I've missed out a lot of very good forums. This is a fairly personal list, though they're excellent meeting places. If I've missed out your favorites tell me why they've good and I'll include them in a follow up article.

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