There’s a confession to be made: I LOVE FORUMS. I love posting in some of the best communities in the world, I love running my own communities and everything about it. My first forum was started in 2002 and for the past 9 years I’ve worked on my communities, learned how to handle them and tried to make money. I had success, I’ve failed miserably too. Bottom line: I got a lot of experience and it really was fun. READ MORE!

There is no need for us to discuss about the importance of being present online and about the fact many forums in your niche are an excellent place for you to get noticed. We don’t talk about SEO friendly links to your signatures (since most forums have nofollow on them), but we can get some excellent TARGETED traffic, not to mention a good possibility to BE NOTICED. Find out more.

Few days ago one of my members on the Romanian Webmaster Forums Invatam.Net complained that he had some serious issues with a person who tried to spam the forums and got banned. The problem was also that my member lost his temper too and after kicking the spammer out made the bad decision of cursing him. The spammer got mad too and threatened to attack the forums in all possible ways (spam bots and also hacking attempts). As you can imagine my member is shocked now to see what he got into. I responded to his question on the forums … Continue reading →

I think my fingers got numb for the tens of times I had to write the same thing regarding this ongoing battle: content or theme. In any site’s case, people start realising a good layout is very important, but still many forum owners have a problem understanding the obvious: A GOOD THEME is important too. Why do we have to chose? Chose what? Why do you people think that ONLY content is what you need? You start a forum because you have ideas for content and the forums stays open because of that content. If you’re not able to keep … Continue reading →