Webmaster Forums List

Forum is worldwide discussion on specific topics. Many webmasters have forums on own pages, but only some of them has successful forum. Every clever webmaster knows that forums are very important source of traffic. But not only good traffic source. Forums can be useful in many ways.

Here I write some of them.

• Forums can be a good source of informations.
• Forums can create new business partnerships
• You can find here friends with the same interests and problems.
• You can advertise (not spamming) your site in discussions.
• Traffic increase from signatures.

In this post I want to introduce the best webmaster forums list.

Digital Point Forums
PR 6	Alexa Rank 173	WebSite Force	Signatures
For me this is the best webmaster forum. I found here a lot of useful informations, I found there a lot of new friends, and also gain good traffic from this forum. Forum contains 621,975 threads and has 127,773 now.
V7N Forum
PR 3	Alexa Rank 5,136	WebSite Force	Signatures
Also very useful webmaster forum. Digital Point forum is sometimes overcrowd, and such amount informations it is difficult to find correct one. In such cases I visited V7N forum.
SitePoint Forums
PR 7	Alexa Rank 711	WebSite Force	Signatures
Nice forum with a lot of webmaster information. There are severe moderators and it is not allowed promote own pages in posts. Forum is more oriented on web design and programming.
Webmaster World Forum
PR 7	Alexa Rank 978	WebSite Force	No signatures
I am not registered on this forum. But forums contains a big variety of topics for webmasters and milions of posts. Forum looks to have worse readability.
The Warrior Forum
PR 5	Alexa Rank 1,086	WebSite Force	Signatures
68,534 Members have create 107,687 topics. Forum with wide area of topics, with worse categorization, but still with very good informations.
Web Hosting Talk
PR 7	Alexa Rank 2,847	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 648,311 threads and has 178,821 registered members now. Forum is oriented mainly on web hosting but it includes also other webmaster topics.
Name Pros
PR 5	Alexa Rank 2,895	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 648,311 threads and has 178,821 registered members now. Forum is oriented mainly on web hosting but it includes also other webmaster topics.
Ozzu Webmaster Forum
PR 7	Alexa Rank 13,156	WebSite Force	No follow signatures
Forum contains 55,029 threads and has 33,281 registered members now. Standard webmaster forum with all most wanted webmaster topics.
DNForum
PR 5	Alexa Rank 4,241	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 239,274 threads and has 48,371 registered members now. Forum is oriented on domain business. In this ares it is the best forum.
Webmaster-Talk.com Forum
PR 3	Alexa Rank 9,291	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 102,598 threads and has 42,717 registered members now. Smaller webmaster forum with a good content.
Kirupa Forum
PR 7	Alexa Rank 9,722	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 245,182 threads and has 99,772 registered members now. Forum is mainly oriented on programming and web design.
Earners Forum
PR 0	Alexa Rank 27,365	WebSite Force	Signatures
Forum contains 16,437 threads and has 10,052 registered members now. Relatively small webmaster forum with good informations, mainly oriented on internet business.

I know that exists much more good webmaster forums. If you know some good one, please write me URL to comments. If it will be good enough I will add it to this webmaster forums list.

Could any SEO company guarantee a first page on Google?

When you will google internet you will find a lot of SEO companies, with this promise on their sites. Competition in this field is very big. SEO experts with good references earns thousands of USD for simple projects. And good SEO experts know answer on question from title.


Here are some facts from SEM (Search engine marketing).

• SEO is long process, better to said lifetime (for page of course) process. In case that page will be shown on first page, without next effort, page will dismiss from first page in a short time


• Competition on internet is unbelievable. Myriads pages are on internet, and thousands or million pages are competing for your keywords.


• Competition for one word keywords, as viagra, loan and etc. is endless, and today it is impossible to reach good position for one word keywords.


• Competition for many words (5 or more and one from them is name of your company) keywords, is very poor, of course, and you will reach first page or first position on Google without problems. But first position for these keywords is worthless, and you will have no traffic from this keyword position.


• For very competitive keywords is SEO only question of budget. Be on first page, or on top means to buy a lot of strong links on high PR pages from your niche.


• Very important off page SEO means for most SEO companies submitting your page link to directories, blogs and forums with automatic spammy submitters program. Your back link will be cleared soon by moderators or webmasters of these pages.


• Many SEO companies ignore on page SEO factors. Page with bad designed structure and keyword density has bad position in struggle for first page. Usually improving page structure and optimization of page for selected keyword can rapidly improve position in Google search result.


• Google changes its algorithm for selecting and ordering pages in search results very often. One from factors is also age of domain, and new page are disadvantaged.

There is a lot of SEO rules to improve your search engine position. Some are very important, some less. Sometimes comply with most important onpage SEO rules can rapidly improve position of page for free. Important is also choosing right keyword for page. For most SEO experts is choosing right keywords most important part of SEO process. It is better to have hundreds visitors from weaker keyword on first page, than ten visitors from strong keyword on third page.
If budget is no problem for you, you can hire a professional SEO expert, to help you with your effort. To find good one is another problem. Here are two important rules, check carefully his references, and prefer SEO experts with money back guarantee.

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Answer on question from title is simple. Yes, exists one company that can guarantee you a first page on Google. As you can suspect, name of this company is Google.

How to increase traffic for blogs? Use blog widgets.

Blogs are nowadays a big fashion. Blogs are also easiest way how to start with own internet business for everybody who is connected to internet. With help of pages as Blogger.com, WordPress.com is blogging availaible for everybody without knowing something about web development. To be successful, means a lot of visitors on blog. I want write here some tips how to increase traffic on blog pages for free. Some tips how to increase traffic I wrote in previous post My traffic is terrible. What to do? First of all I want to choose some important steps from previous post good for blog traffic:

• Good content
• SEO
• Social network sites
• Social bookmarking sites

In this post I want show you how to increase your traffic with help of some useful widgets from social networking sites. Using widgets is relatively new way hot to increase traffic for blogs. Widget is Web 2.0 component generated on external page, and it is presented on as image or as iframe.

After installing widget on your page, widget shows headlines from blogs registered on BlogRush. Headlines from your blog will be shown as many times as your widget is shown. It is a good source of quality traffic from blogs with the same niche. BlogRush accepts only quality blogs. After declining you have possibility to resubmit blog after month. I read from other sources, that it increase traffic for blogs, especially for blogs with more traffic.

BlogCatalog is for me very good source of traffic. It is social networking site. You register blog here and you can discuss with others. By making new friends, joining to groups and sending posts to discussion your blog is more visible on BlogCatalog pages, and you have higher possibility that somebody it visits. I like their Recent Visitors widget. After installing it shows avatars of last visitors on your blog that are registered on BlogCatalog. And after clicking on avatars you visit their profiles on BlogCatalog page. Developers usually want to know who visited their blogs. And the probably visit your blog in return. That means visits on your blog is comparable to your visits on other blogs.

MyBlogLog is similar site like BlogCatalog. Company is owned by Yahoo and it is possible to register there only with Yahoo ID. You can also add your blog and for registered blog create widgets. I also prefer Recent Visitors widget. Each blog represents community, where it is possible to join. You can also add friends there. For blogs with installed widgets you can view also good stats. Unfortunately after short time stats is switched to limited version, and full version is available only as paid feature. I prefer BlogCatalog system, but this page can also bring a good traffic to blog.

On this page I register only a day ago. It looks like they have less members like first 3 pages. After registration there is possibility to add blogs, join in groups, and find friends. They also provide Recent Visitors widget. I read from other sources, they sometimes it can be problem with speed of blog site where is widget installed. I don't have this problem on my computer, but I am not sure with other computers. I don't know how much can BUMPzee increase traffic, because I am new there.

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All 4 widgets can help to increase traffic for your blog. How much it depends on you. How many friends do you find there and how many other blogs do you visit is source for gross calculation of your possible number of visitors. My opinion is to choose one or two from them, and there to be as active as it is possible. And of course to combine it with other sources of traffic, from my post above.

My traffic is terrible. What to do?

In this post I would like to write about the most powerful traffic sources. Site without traffic lost its meaning. No traffic means, no money from site. But how to improve traffic for site? This question interests a lot of webmasters. Here you can find some tips how to improve your traffic. All tips are ordered by importance from my point of view.

1. Good content

Good content is most important source of visitors. Returning visitors are the best visitors. And visitors return to your page only when they find useful info on your page.

2. SEO

Search engines are very strong source of traffic. Well optimized page on first page of Google for strong keyword is treasure. It brings on site thousands visitors a day. Disadvantage of this source is that situation can change, and your page dismiss from first pages. Competition in SEO is very tough.

3. Social network sites

Social networks are pages grouping people with similar interests. People in groups usually make friends easier. And friends with similar interests visits their friends pages. It is very good source, especially for experienced webmasters. Similar like in real life, introverts can have problems to use this source effectively.

4. Forums and signature links

Forums are places where you can find answers on your questions. Similar like social networking sites forums group people with similar interests. Advantage of some forums are signature links. Every post written with you means new back link on your page. And you can also find here friends or possible customers. Good strategy for forums is: try to help others on forums every time when it is possible and you become authority on forum. And authorities are good source for information and source for these informations could be find on your page from your signature.

5. Directory links

This is not good source directly for traffic. Traffic from directories is not very high. But links on your page improve rank for your page. And better ranked pages can have better position in search engines.

6. Social bookmarking sites

Power of social bookmarking sites for traffic is unbelievable. People who like content of our page, can bookmark your page on social bookmarking site. More people bookmark your page, means more votes for your content and that means better position on social bookmarking site. People like to see pages that like somebody else, and it can make snowball effect for traffic. Disadvantage of this source is short lifetime of this effect.

7. Article directories

Article directories lost a lot of popularity from past. By writing a good article with biography containing links on you page, can be a good source. A lot of people used on their pages articles from article directories. Now when search engines punish duplicate content on pages, is situation worse.

8. Blogs

Blogs are good source of traffic also. Search engine pages prefer sites that are changed frequently. It is a problem for sites with static content. Blog describing topics for niche of page can improve traffic from search engines. And blog is also place for discussions. And some blogs have discussion with search engine friendly links. And free links from high PR blogs are good links.

8. Templates

Nice template for WordPress blog or PHPLD directory is a gold mine. You have back link from every page, where is your template used. That means hundreds links from standard directory or blog. Disadvantage of this source is that you must be very good and experienced designer.

9. Widgets

Web 2.0 widgets are also very good source for traffic. Nice graphics widget inspires people to click on it, and after click they go on your site of course. But you must find a good service and be a good programmer to create good one.

10. PayPerClick Traffic

Advertising, with AdWords for example, is excellent source of traffic, that brings you good customers. Very good source, but unfortunately not free.

Free Webmaster Tools

In this post I would like to write about set of most useful free webmaster tools. Every webmaster who wants to have successful site use his/her own set of free webmaster tools. I am writing about set of tools which I am actively using. And I also try to categorize tools. What are necessary tools for webmasters?

1. Keyword research tools
2. Domain research tools
3. Design and development tools
4. Visitors statistics tools
5. Promotion tools
6. SEO tools for market position research
7. Blogger tools
8. Page monetize tools

Keyword Research Tools

Yahoo Overture Tool
The best online keyword research tool. After entering term tool shows you related searches that include your term and estimated number of times that term was searched on last month.

Wordtracker
Free keyword suggestion tool. After entering a starting keyword tool generates up to 100 related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume. After registration you can gain more results for your term.

Domain research tools

Whois
Lookup registration data for domains. Very interesting data are usually domain age, registrator data and name servers. Tool also shows existing domains for keyword

Design and development tools

Sitemap Generator
Tool finds all internal links for page and from selected it generates sitemp for Google and Yahoo

HTML Validator
Tool checks syntax of selected page. Very useful tool to have clear code without possible error.

CSS Validator
Tool checks syntax of CSS for selected page.

Link Validator
Tool checks validity of all links on page.

Keyword Density Checker
Tool checks density of phrases on page. It is also possible to choose how many words phrases are checked.

Visitor Statistics Tools

Google Analytics
Very strong tool for checking your visitors activity. Very wide variety of checked aspects for visits.

Promotion tools

Website Promotion Services
More than 10 000 places where you can submit your page. After registration of possibility to submit project to directories for free.

Directory Critic
Very good list of directories and article directories.

Market Position Research Tools

Search Engine Ranking by Country
Tools find for selected keyword your position in Google, Yahoo, MSN in 12 countries.

Keyword Ranking Tool
Excellent keyword tracking tool for keyword position, backlinks and indexed pages with history.

Website Force Checker
Comprehensive tool that calculate value of site in points from 0 to 100 000.

Blogger Tools

Feed Stats Tool
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.

Web Blog Ping Service
Pinging is used to let other websites know that your blog has been updated.

Free Blog
Best way how to start blogging without a penny.

Page Monetize Tools

Google AdSense
The most used PPC advertising system.

Link Price Calculator
Very good tool when you want to buy or sell links.

I describe in this article set of free webmaster tools most useful for me, and for other webmasters. I know that on internet exists much more tools. But I don't want to describe them all. It is impossible, of course. If you know other useful free webmaster tools not mentioned here write me about them in discussion.

Is DMOZ link still valuable?

In this post I would like to write about importance and difficulty to gain link from DMOZ directory. Many of us are trying to gain this back link. And most of us are unsuccessful. Why?
Owner of ODP project DMOZ was Netscape Division. It was founded in 1998. In the past importance of DMOZ listing was axiom. All main Search engines as Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others used data from DMOZ as source for their results. You can see it on next picture:

But in January 2007 situation changed as you can see on next chart:

As you can see DMOZ as source for main search engine disappears. Why?
After system failure and editing outage from October to December 2006, DMOZ shows only older version of data in catalog. DMOZ has also problem with corruptive editors. It is not surprising. Editors are spammed with tons of submits, and possibility to earn some money for their services is very seductive. After ignoring DMOZ as source for search engine, importance of DMOZ decreased. But is link from DMOZ still important? It is not important for SERP, but it has historical value. Presence in DMOZ has for webmaster meaning. It is mark of "domain quality", because domain was approved in DMOZ directory. Especially while selling domain, presence in DMOZ can increase domain price. And how to gain it. Nobody knows. While submitting it is important read carefully all rules. And once, maybe, your page will be in DMOZ results.

Sources:
Search engine relationships chart
Bruce Clay™, Inc

What is important while submit to directories?

Submit to directories is one from the most important sources to gain back links to your web project. Additionally do we control format of the link. That means that we are choosing anchor text and category of page where the link will be situated. This is very important from view of SEO, because not only power, respectively Google page rank of page with back link is important, but also category of pages with back link. It is important to have similar category with your content.

First of all, choose directories specialized for your niche. Back links from that kind of directories are usually more valuable than from general directories. And also traffic from these directories is greater than from general.

If your pages are specialized for specific region prefer submit to local directories. People from region usually know local directories and they are looking there, where the want to find something on Internet. This is important especially for other than English sites. This kind of directories has usually higher page rank than general directories.

Submit to directories is not important for straight traffic, you will not gain a lot of traffic from directories. But with increasing number of back links from right pages with good anchor text is page more powerful for search engines, and position of page on search engines for specific keywords is improving. A with good position in search engines are traffic to page rapidly growing.

Whiles submit to general directories it is important to choose right category. Sometimes are suitable for page more categories and it is good to choose correct one. It is better to choose category with less links. This is why I also prefer new directories. Your link is on better position on page, and page rank of these directories is usually growing, together with your link.