I know we're talking about a mainstream forum so there's no competition, but are we allowed to post mainstream forum links here? There's one I visit almost every day. Depending on the area you're dealing with (affiliate marketing, email, traffic, design, etc) some of the sub-forums are very useful and you can actually make some good contacts.
PM or icq me if you want the link.

And where is "there" ?

agreed :2 cents:

I always appear to find ones that are either too amateur or too up their own asses. Something balanced between the two would be welcomed.

i have never found any really right site that is complete.

it's not a copywriting forum, so who gives a fuck? :1orglaugh

Does anybody make money using squidoo or ezinearticles? I haven't heard of anyone actually making money from these....but that doesn't mean anything bc I don't know much at all! :-) Please do tell!

I tried some of the things described in sites like blackhatworld and never got anywhere. The only mainstream I have working is some good quality travel stuff which I originally put up as a hobby about where I live. Now has adsense on it and ticks over a small regular income. I would only need about 200 times more to replace my adult income.

I do agree there is room for an adult-webmasters-learning-mainstream forum. As adult webmasters we are not newbies about webmastering or SEO, but there is stuff we don't know about the marketing and the products.

well i have decided that i will put up such forum maybe today or tomorrow. See how it goes. But i will need all the help that can get.

This will be a friend forum to help each other not for get rich scams.

Guess you will have to hear it from some one or hit me up to get the url. Can't post it here.

The focus will be adult webmasters that would like to cross over and those that would like to help those out or have a real good product that will help them out.

If you have any input then you can mail me at [email protected] maybe you want to check out that domain the email is from :) :) :)

any more thoughts on the subject

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Prior the updates in ratings on Squidoo, there was a massive flaw in their rating/ranking system. Basically your lense's rankings depend on a few factors, one of which that paid a large role was your number of votes and your overall rating. Squidoo has ZERO IP PROTECTION. Also your accounts require no email authorization. You could signup for an account with a bullshit email address and rate a lense. Over, and over, and over again. So I put together a simple bot that automated this process. Another debatable metric used in ranking squidoo lenses is page views, so I was firing tons of junk traffic at my lenses for a while too.

Essentially I could put any lense I wanted into the top 100 for it's category in a couple of days by blasting it with 400-600 4-5 star ratings. After a while Squidoo would find them and devalue the lense, but you could make a new and have it in the top 100 again in no time. I have a few hundred lenses, at any one time while this worked I regularly had 40-50 lenses sitting in the top 100 for various categories, and I was making some good money doing it for a short period.

If you can build a good lenses and promote as you would a regular site, you can get some ok traffic to it internally via Squidoo, and you can make sales. With a little effort, Squidoo lenses can rank really well on low-mid level competitive terms too. I don't hear of many people making huge money strictly on Squidoo, but there's monet kicking around there.

I had purchased my xrumer license from another user, which is against botmaster's rules, so eventually my license got terminated sometime over the last year. Tried firing it up a while back and realized I took the hit. There is a new lightweight forum posting software on it's way shortly, that could or could not be a game changer for forum backlinking. Ther issue is that it is probably going to be dirt cheap, and put forum spamming in the hands of thousands of newbs. There's a uproar with a lot of Xrumer users bitching that this could kill the value of forum links when the ievitable flood of new forum spam comes about. I'm going to hold out and see what happes with this new app before I bother picking up a new Xrumer license. Might eve give that app a try to see how it operates for me. I have read a little about the new Xrumer options though, seems pretty slick. I can't see the new program being an Xrumer killer, but theoretically it could cause Google to take a second look at forum spammers. This app is coming from the same person partly responsible for the gigantic boom in blog comment spamming.

As i see here people are really looking to discuss this and get more information about the subject.

So every one up for a new forum.

post url.

Ban him! Ban him! Ahahahahahahahaha...

http://www.wickedfire.com/ is alrite.

i don't think i can post any url of the forum. Also i am still working on the forum. but will be open soon.

well not sure if you can do that. i am not going to mess with the rules here.

post the url in secret code.

well i will see but still have to finish the forum first. but you can check this page for info www.webmastersbuzz.net

any more thoughts on the matter?

lets get back to top to see what others thinks about the subject.

sitepoint is a good mainstream forum

Shut the fuck up mrfrisky-marco-eastwood-jack

ok, ok let keep is nice :)

Site point is ok but still not really helpful with many things.

site has been done and just need your activity and mine of course. Go check it out at www.webmastersbuzz.net and start posting. learn from each other.

Leave you comment on the forum. If you see stuff that still needs to be done let me know.

bump for more people to see who are looking for such forum

inside webmastering is an adult forum that has a pretty decent mainstream section.

I just started a mainstream forum, too. I don't want to get banned for posting the link here tho... anyone know if it's allowed or not?

I've got one that I started with a few other prominent and upcoming SEO professionals who've ranked for things like "online poker" "online casino" "online blackjack" etc..

But we've been busy on a few new projects and the forum is lacking activity :/

Yeah, mine's focused on mainstream domaining, site development, and affiliate stuff. Not a lot of posts on mine yet either, it's hard to get forums started.

Why not try online gambling?

http://gaffg.com

Don't reinvent the wheel, get an affiliate coach

any questions just ask

And which ones are good? Oh, you wanted me to go through those 181,000 results.
THANK YOU!!