What is a Forum?
If you're reading my blog I shouldn't have to explain this one but I will for grins. A forum is a public meeting or assembly for open discussion on a given subject or topic. Forums rely on users to generate content and feedback on whatever topic the forum moderators decide to talk about. There's a pecking order and usually a qualitative indicator of each member of a forum that's derived from their number of posts and or the amount of quality they add when they post.
Forums have helped many a web site owner in solving the age old question of "How do I get my site to the first page of Google for my keywords?".
They usually center around a certain vertical market or subject area and draw all sorts of responses. The most trafficked forums are usually the most controversial and if the noise coming out of a particular form rises high enough then the big dogs in a given industry will respond but these responses are few and far between. Forums have typically had a bad rap, especially in the seo business, because of the amount of hearsay and misinformation that has come out of them. The general rule of thumb is "for every truth you learn in a forum you have to weed out 9 mistruths".
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