One of the best ways to learn how to make lots of money online is to interact with like-minded individuals who are equally dedicated to making money on the internet. Nobody knows every single trick in the book and making sure your efforts are profitable in the long run requires some knowledge of proven strategies or methods for optimum results.
The best and easiest way to develop this knowledge is to visit forums that offer valuable information on topics like affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, Pay per Click Advertising and freelancing.
Webmaster forums like Digital Point and Site Point teach you how to create, promote and monetize a website. Affiliate marketing forums like Wicked Fire will give you the lowdown on effective ways to maximize your affiliate commissions.
Seven Ways Forums can help you make money online
Here are seven specific ways in which forum can contribute to your goal of making money online.
- Marketing and Promotion. Forums are a great way to promote your online business, brand or service because you’ll get to reach a large relevant audience easily by simply contributing to the community.
- Networking and Business Opps. You might just meet a fellow blogger, webmaster or business partner that wants to collaborate on a specific project or venture.
- Scam Verification. Wanna know if a dubious looking website actually pays its users? Forums are the best place to check.
- Referral & Affiliate Booster. Forums are a perfect channel to promote your affiliate or referral link. Heavily trafficked forums with thousands of readers are an excellent way to get successful referral conversions. Just remember not to spam or you’ll easily get banned.
- Free Signature Backlinks. Signature links from reputable forums will help new websites to be indexed by search engines. You can also sell your signature links for money or use it to promote your website or affiliate programs.
- Money Making Knowledge. Knowing is half the battle won. Forums are great ways to discover new ways or methods of making money online.
- Troubleshooting & Appraisals. Maybe you don’t understand why your Adsense CTR is so dreadful, or why your blog has terrible search engine rankings. Forums are an easy way to refine your money making techniques or troubleshoot technical issues.
Webmaster Forums / Website Monetization / SEO / Marketplaces
1. Digital Point
Digital Point is by far my favorite webmaster forum because of its size. There are over 24,000 active members and the forum offers a great deal of information on topics like Search Engine Optimization, Link building, affiliate marketing, pay-per-click advertising, domain investing and blogging.
Digital Point also has a large and free marketplace for the buying and selling of links, templates, domains and websites. If you’ve only got time for one webmaster forum, Digital Point is the forum you should visit.
2. V7N Forum
V7N is a big and lively forum with lots of newbie and experience webmasters. Their SEO forum sees the most action while other forums on graphic design, marketing and web directories are pretty active as well. Recommended if you want to learn more about webmastering.
3. Sitepoint
A large forum on web design, programming and site promotion. The very popular SitePoint Marketplace is a great place to sell or buy websites, services and site templates.
An established forum with information on domain names, webmaster technology, search engines, SEO and link development. Sorta like Digital Point but with less members.
5. SEO Chat
SEO Chat is a forum that focuses more on SEO for webmasters. They offer free site reviews as well as a lot of information on Yahoo, Google and MSN search optimization. There’s also a tiny section on Affiliate Marketing, PPC and keywords.
A fast growing Forum on webmaster topics such as monetization, blogging and freelancing. Has a nice monetization section and How-To section which beginners can ask experts specific questions.
A search engine optimization forum that specializes in only SEO strategies and troubleshooting. Includes tips on keyword research, link building and online copy writing. Good information on PPC advertising, search engine marketing and branding.
8. Self Starters Weekly Tips
A forum about making money from websites and ebusinesses. Includes info on networking, SEO, Online marketing, PPC advertising, blogging and domain names. Lots of helpful forum members here.
Internet and Affiliate Marketing / Pay per Click Advertising / Adsense Arbitrage
9. Wicked Fire
My second favorite forum after Digital Point. Lots of gritty gray-hat and black-hat SEO and affiliate marketing stuff here and there’s really a lot of learn. Wicked Fire offers a lot of good information on adsense arbitrage and affiliate marketing/ traffic building.
The community is very active and it might be a little intimidating for complete newbies but do a search before you ask any questions and you’ll be fine.
10. Warrior Forum
A forum that specializes on topics such as internet marketing products, Adsense, PPC advertising and search engine optimization. Includes a small free ebook section as well as a self-improvement section. Didn’t like the forum interface but you might find some useful information here.
11. ABest Web
Has a vibrant internet marketing community that’s very friendly. The forum includes a comprehensive section on Commission Junction and Shareasale as well as an affiliate academy for newbies and other experienced marketers. A good forum to visit.
12. 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums
A forum with some decent information on affiliate networks such as Shareasale and AzoogleAds. Also covers RSS Marketing, Adsense and SEO/SEM.
Associate Programs has a fair number of users. They have a section for newcomers to affiliate marketing as well as a helpful section on the different affiliate networks. Some SEO information as well.
14. Ewealth
Ewealth has a large affiliate network corner which features the usual affiliate companies like Clickbank, Comission Junction, Linkshare and Shareasale. There’s also a good section on PPC and Paid advertising as well as a small marketplace for the trading of domain names and services.
15. Affiliates4U
A UK affiliate marketing forum that offers UK specific affiliate network information. There are also sections on the website which discuss general website promotion, SEO, web security, PPC and affiliate management.
Get Paid To, AutoSurfs and High Yield Investment Program Forums16. Get Paid Forum
A very large forum that specializes in Get Paid to Websites which pay you to do surveys, click on ads, read emails or complete offers. There is a very excellent downline builder subsection of the forum which allows you to build you referral downlines for traffic exchanges, affiliate programs and get paid to website.
17. Dream Team Money
A forum that exclusively specializes in High Yield Investment Programs, Autosurfs, Multi level marketing as well as Get Paid to programs. Also includes sections in stocks, forex and properties.
Excellent place to visit when you need information before investing in a specific program. A forum with a very large member base.
18. Whydowork.com
A forum with sections on affiliate marketing, get paid to websites, MLM opportunities, scam reporting as well as reselling & drop shipping. Pretty much a general forum with bits of information on various topics.
19. Goldage
Goldage mainly deals with all matters concerning digital currency investments as well forex and HYIP programs. A very referral friendly forum so visit them if you’ve got a referral program to share.
Work from Home Jobs / Freelancing / Multi Level Marketing
20. Work at Home Forum
A nice forum focusing on areas such as business opportunities, multi level marketing, web design, autosurfs and paid surveys. Most of the members are not part of the webmaster crowd but rather offline marketers and stay at home mums and dads.
21. WAHM.com
Work At Home Mum (WAHM) is a great forum to visit because it has large number of active users that are friendly and helpful. Topics include traditional work from home jobs and businesses such as gift basket and craft selling, as well as basic marketing and get paid to programs. Great forum to share a referral link if you have a program to promote.
22. Talk Freelance
A forum that specializes in all sorts of online freelance jobs such as web design design and programming. A great place to frequent if you are designer programmer looking for a paid assignment.
Domain Name Investing / Domain Marketplaces
23. NamePros
A forum that focuses on domaining and information about monetized domain parking, domain appraisals and other domain name discussions. If you’re new to domaining, check out the domain newbies section. There’s a lot of great tips on how to get started with domaining.
24. DN Forum
A large and active forum that focuses on making money with domains. Sections of the forum include a strong marketplace for anyone who’s planning to sell or buy a domain. Also includes domain name auctions as well as domain brokerage and legal issues concerning domains.
Money Making Scam Busting
25. Scam.com
A forum that specializes in exposing all types of online and offline scams. This is the first place to visit before you start investing serious money and time in the latest High Yield Investment Program or internet career kit. Information about online scams are located in the “Internet Scams” section of the forum. They have an enormous archive with hundreds of threads on the scams.
Blog Forums26. Blogger Forum
The largest blog forum on the internet. Blogger forum has has information on blog coding, monetization as well as blog promotion.
The forum is fairly active and is a good place to visit when you want to exchange links for your new blog.
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