In the last few days or so I have been compiling this list of forums that give out lots of link juice.
What is that ?
Any experienced forum poster already knows that one of the benefits of posting in forums is the fact that they allow forum signatures to be attached under each of your posts. The forum signatures can in theory contain links to sites that you choose. But not all forums, forum administrators rather, treat signatures the same. Some limit the number of links you can have in them, some will put a nofollow in them, some will not even let you have a signature …
Table explanation
Let me just explain a little bit of what each column below mean. Alexa is the Alexa ranking of the the forum in order to judge if the forums has enough visibility. The PR (pagerank) can in turn affect the pagerank your signature links might acquire in the future. Links limit column displays the limit imposed on the number of links you can have in your signature. The next column Active displays if there is a minimum amount of posts needed to be posted before one is allowed to edit their signature links. NF (NoFollow) column means if the links are assigned a “rel=nofollow” in which case no link juice is actually passed (forum owner is not vouching for any of the links of his forum users). RSS feed is a way to get an extra link to your blog in which case in the options of your profile you can provide the RSS feed of your blog and the latest post will always be linked from your every post.
| Forum | Alexa | PR | links limit | Active | NF | RSS Feed |
| Digital point forums | 140 | 6 | 4 | 10 | NO | YES |
| sitepoint forums | 447 | 7 | 10 1 | 1 | NO | NO |
| webmaster world | 481 | 8 | 0 | N/A | N/A | NO |
| warrior forum | 602 | 5 | 10 1 | 1 | NO 2 | NO |
| V7n forums | 1020 | 6 | 2 | 50 | NO | YES |
| SEO Chat forums | 1173 | 5 | 10 1 | 30 | NO/YES3 | NO |
| web hosting talk forum | 1745 | 6 | 2 | 50 | NO | NO |
| name pros | 1868 | 5 | 10 1 | 1 | NO | YES |
| DNForum | 2491 | 5 | 1 ? | 1000/$$ 4 | NO | NO |
| Daniweb forums | 4907 | 6 | 10 1 | 1 | YES | NO |
| webmaster talk forums | 5131 | 6 | 10 1 | 1 | NO | YES |
| kirupa forum | 8480 | 5 | 10 1 | 1 | NO | |
| Web Talk Forums | 30829 | 4 | 3 | 1 | NO | YES |
| webdigity | 43825 | 5 | 10 1 | 1 | NO | YES |
| MK Pit Stop, the Computer Webmaster Gaming Console Graphics Forum | 144939 | 4 | 3 | 1 | NO | YES |
| searchen networks forum | 163976 | 5 | 4 | 1 | NO | NO |
Notes:
1: no real limit on the number of links but limit on number of characters per line usually allows up to 10 links
2: can’t choose anchor text
3: first link is normal, rest of links are “NoFollow”ed
4: can actually pay for activation of your signature (not sure about this)?
This list is by no means comprehensive and the stats and details gathered might change over time.
If you have found something that is indeed out of order or you want to add your own/favorite forum in the list please post it in a comment below along with some of the statistics
Happy posting …
51 responses so far ↓
1 Lucio // Aug 3, 2007 at 10:16 am
Good post mate,
I’ve been looking for a list like that to build up an strategy for inbound links from foruns,
You’ve done the work!
Good on you,
Cheers
Lucio
marketingeasy(dot)blogspot(dot)com
2 Nick // Aug 3, 2007 at 10:21 am
Nice post Giorgos. Thanks for the link to WD
3 GiorgosK // Aug 3, 2007 at 10:29 am
Thanks for the comments,
post here any other forum you think gives nice link juice …
Nick I could not have missed my favorite forum ….
4 10668844 // Aug 9, 2007 at 3:37 pm
GiogosK - Thanks, for this.
I’ve been collecting a number of forums/chat boxes but I have not yet gone through and done a page rank/Alexa analysis yet as to which ones are the best.
I’ll do that and post back here what ones are good.
Thank you very much for sharing.
5 Steve // Aug 18, 2007 at 11:55 am
GiogosK - thanks for the info. Just wondering though, do backlinks in forums on the subject of SEO for example, give just as good creedance with google for a link to a site to do with florida vacation homes. Or is it better if it’s a relevant subject?
Steve
6 GiorgosK // Aug 20, 2007 at 12:42 am
@Steve, its always better to have links from relevant sites, but its not always easy to find them … or for those sites to find your site and link to you … thus, for free links forum signatures do a good enough job to be worth considering …
7 Rico // Aug 30, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I think the webmaster-talk forum is a nofollow forum…
I can you some forums that passes link juice
here’s my list and my favorite –> http://www.wickedfire.com/
8 Website Promotion // Oct 5, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Very good post. Only one thing I didn’t find above is number of posts (aproximately). I found good list of webmaster forum on DP forum.
9 Sofna // Oct 24, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Nice list, thanks a lot. I have about half of those forums bookmarked, but now I can add to it. Thanks again.
10 Rano Deea // Oct 30, 2007 at 2:35 pm
nice list
http://www.talk-mania.com is bringing me some considerable traffic from one link signature
11 GiorgosK // Oct 30, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Rano, post here the relevant stats of talk-mania so I can include it in the list on the next update
12 Paul Escobedo // Nov 6, 2007 at 7:57 pm
We have built about 4000 links in two months. Do you think that Google will punish us for building links that fast? Or do you think that is not nearly enough for Google to notice?
13 GiorgosK // Nov 6, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Paul, If google were to find them all at once then maybe there would be a problem but since its going to take some time before they get discovered …. I would not worry ….
14 Minyak Lintah // Nov 9, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I only post at Digital Point before but now i think its better for me not to limit myself only to DP. Thanks for providing me with good forums.
15 Andy // Dec 5, 2007 at 6:20 am
Im finding it harder to talk on forums each day because i have to much other stuff to do, link juice is a new concept to me. Great post and the only forum i know on there is searchen.
If i had time to be everywhere at once i would be but its impossible, i’ll bookmark this page and join them all over christmas, Thanks
16 Jeff // Dec 12, 2007 at 7:03 am
I wish someone would come up with a list like this for music related forums.
17 admin // Dec 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm
On my site forum I let members post a link in the links section, and have a signature. I know how hard it is to get your links out there!
18 admin // Dec 31, 2007 at 4:51 am
I see that some of the page ranks have gone..There is a rumor that google is doing something different with page ranking. Some web sites have dropped to zero page rank from 5 or 6.
19 admin // Jan 9, 2008 at 8:42 am
I have a forum where people can leave their link. http://www.tips4pc.com/forum
also a website with follow tag http://www.fillyourmoneybox.com
20 Barb Thornback // Jan 31, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I am definately going to bookmark this. So pleased with this info.
21 Cincin Kanda // Feb 6, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Thanks for the list. Im looking forward to post in some of the forum.
22 edwin // Feb 13, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Thanks for the comments,
post here any other forum you think gives nice link juice …
23 SticKer // Mar 19, 2008 at 8:33 am
WebIcy is another Webmaster & SEO Forum that has dofollow for all sig links. Good for generating backlinks and giving link juice.
SticKer
24 GiorgosK // Mar 19, 2008 at 11:32 am
Sticker
Give me all the other information needed to complete my table listing and I will probably include it on the next update
25 XPT // Mar 24, 2008 at 4:33 pm
nice listing.. greate
26 Evan // Mar 24, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Great list, thanks…
27 admin // Mar 25, 2008 at 12:04 am
When I first saw this post I went to most of these forums and created a signature and got the backlinks. That was great!!!
But you wouldn’t believe what I have learnt at these forums.
Thanks for helping my site along as I would never have thought that forums could make such an impact on my SEO.
28 SticKer // Mar 25, 2008 at 2:40 pm
okay here are the details u needed:
Forum: Webicy Forums
Alexa: 281058
PR: 2
links limit: 4
Active NF: no
RSS Feed: yes
29 Spanish Real Estate Forum // Jun 3, 2008 at 11:10 am
Thought I would add our forum for Real Estate agents to come and join to benefit from being able to use us for backlinks. ONLY Real Estate sites.
forum: Spanish Real Estate Forum
Alexa: 723,518
PR: 4
Link limit: 4 or 5
No follow: No
RSS: Yes
30 dd // Jun 9, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Excellent list thanks
31 David Braybrooke // Jul 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Great List, Thanks!
I Would Recommend Caution If You Are Thinking Of Visiting http://www.WickedFire.com
The General Flavour Of The Place Is On The Rough Side And Newcomers Are Often Treated VERY Badly!
Cheers,
Dave.
32 diarmuid ryan // Jul 25, 2008 at 1:00 am
forums with a high page rank generally only have high PR for homepage and *directly* linked pages..actual forum posts generally have PR0, which doesn’t provide that much juice at all. one must bare in mind in is the PR of the actual page the link is on that gets passed not the PR of the sites homepage
33 Runescape Forums // Sep 1, 2008 at 10:42 am
You may add my site
G4HQ Forums
http://www.g4hq.com
Pr 2 (i have inner pr)
Sig link limit? none
34 Andrew // Sep 5, 2008 at 6:18 am
Thanks, will use it.
35 max // Sep 12, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for the links
36 HTML Help Central // Sep 13, 2008 at 3:04 am
HHC is a forum for webmasters to get help with site building issues, etc. 2000 to 3000 visitors per day and good PR. I don’t use nofollow on signature links and welcome anyone who wants to participate on the site with the benefit of having links in their signature. The big issue with me is that this is no problem as long as my site is not abused. Participate in a real way and we can help each other. Post in a spammy fashion and you can expect your posts to be removed and account probably banned. I feel it’s a fair trade-off. Check the forum out at http://www.htmlhelpcentral.com
37 Zonaid Rahim // Oct 27, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Its a good site to follow specially for the blogger with page rank “0″
38 Neal // Nov 20, 2008 at 2:07 am
This is a great list, thanks for making it for your users.
39 Jake Gold // Nov 23, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Great list!! Thanks a lot!
40 Busby // Nov 30, 2008 at 11:03 am
[…] Submitting : we can use social media and social bookmark for this technique. Or we can submit and write our link in our forum signature. Try to find good forum with link juice. […]
41 Mike // Dec 5, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I’m totally new to this, so thanks for a great and informative article. I’d just like to clarify one thing so I can make the most sense of the list: So a site with no nofollow rules are sites that allow the link to follow through to the site in the signature? In other words, the sites with a NO in the NF column are preferable to the ones with a YES?
42 GiorgosK // Dec 5, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Yes that is correct MIKE
NO in the NF column means link juice passed to your links …
43 intospain // Dec 16, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Seems to be more and more forums going nofollow, however - you are welcome to visit ours - http://www.intospain.com/ we do not have nofollows.
I believe that every human link counts as you have had to work for it, so it will never happen on any of my sites
44 Monika // Jan 14, 2009 at 11:03 am
Very interesting article, but why the list is so short? Is it possible to find more high ranked forums for promotion. Presently i make some research and going to make a list of 100 - 300 of greatest forums… If you are interested in here some site for the most ranked forums…
h**p://rankings.big-boards.com
45 GiorgosK // Jan 14, 2009 at 11:22 am
The list is short because I did not have in mind to create an exchaustive list … because of time constraints. What I look for in a forum is presented thus anyone can create their own list …
46 vHiNz // Feb 14, 2009 at 6:15 am
Hi guys i really enjoyed reading your discussions and by the way thanks for giving some nofollow-free forums which I might join and participate with.
Thank You,
vHiNz
47 pickripper // Mar 2, 2009 at 1:33 am
Bookmarked! Great list… I hope you keep extending it over time. There must be more reputable “juicy” forums out there.
48 fornls // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for collecting forums list with useful details of each one and sharing with us.
I am just planning a strategy to post atleast 10 posts in any forum every day regularly.
That way I can get 300 backlinks in a month with little effort every day..
49 mico // May 21, 2009 at 12:52 am
V7N rules!
Thanks for sharing nice list.
50 juan.suarez // Aug 12, 2009 at 5:46 am
this is one of the moste effective SEO techniques. however some administrators erase comments that are obviously spam, comments like “hey this is interestign information” shows that the “link builder” didin’t even read the article or discussion, so it’s something that I consider “ethical” to ask the administrator to post your link but in return the less you can do is saying something valuable.
51 trrweb // Aug 24, 2009 at 10:45 am
I think a lot of the forums that I have been on recently have fallen away and the owners of the forums have simply given up on maintaining them - they do look a lot more spammy these days and I for one think they are not as good as they once were.
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