The ForumFinder Forums.
September 13, 2008 10:12 pm General
ForumFinder was originally launched in November of 2005, and just relaunched once again in August 2008.
ForumFinder was originally set up as a phpbbfm forum, I took over ownership of Forumfinder in early 2006. Most of the original staff came with me, but things were about to change once again.
In March of 2007, I added a blog to the domain, and then the forum was pushed aside, not knowing what I really wanted to do with it, but I did know that I didn’t want to delete it, since it was still getting a pretty good flow of traffic.
The original idea behind ForumFinder was, and has always been, to provide its members with a way to promote their blogs, sites and forums and do so for FREE.
In late 2006, a traffic exchange ForumFinderPLUS was added to the services provided. The exchange is part of the VS-TrEX network of exchanges, and it has turned out to be a huge success for the ForumFinder members.
ForumFinder at one time was a PR3, but thanks to my getting involved with “paid blogging”, that PR was lost in October07, and that fateful date, is something that is now referred to as the “Google Spank”.
A few Stats are: Alexa:58,806
August stats: pageviews: 59.649, which I feel are pretty good, considering this was our 1st month since being revamped and relaunched.
Features:
ForumFinderPLUS - Traffic Exchange
ForumFinder - Top List Service
Comment Exchange - A group participation effort to increase comments and drive traffic.
Comment Crusaders - A group of dedicated members (11), and growing on a daily basis. NOTE: This is a private group, once you participate in the daily comment exchange’s, you will then be automatically added to this group.
$25 Montly Banner Drawing just place our 125×125 banner on your site and be entered….its that simple.
The above list is only an example, of what ForumFinder offers its members.
The August revamp took ForumFinder in the direction of Social Networking. With the addition of several sites, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Propeller and several others. We offered the members a place where they could promote it all with just a click of their mouse.
Over the years, as ForumFinder has continued to grow, we continue to strive, in order to bring the best there is to our members.
You will find the Staff at ForumFinder, to be very efficient. Always willing to go the extra mile to give the members a helping hand.
Staff Members are: Fords8(Site Designer/Admin), JustJulie(Admin), MKWeb(GM), CristleGirl(GM), Breezie (Site Owner)
To take full advantage of all that ForumFinder has to offer, why not REGISTER today.
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Mark (Capy) :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 1:16 am
I an very impressed with the amount of increasing interaction amongst the members that this forum has produced. The traffic benefits have been immense and I am certainly glad that I joined up! Good Job!
Jules :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Mark is 100% right! I’m impressed with how well it has taken off. Thanks to all our members who make it such a great place!
rattitude :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
LOL. Google spank is one reason I gave up the idea of paid blogging.
Ferox :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
I wonder what the next step is going to be?
Jules :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
More and more people are signing up, I’m so excited!
mistipurple :
Date: September 14, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
I love all the good people there. They are fabulous and I look forward to logging in a couple of times a day even!
Thank you and all the staff members who go the extra mile to making all of us feel welcomed.
Hellan :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 6:24 am
Im new to the forum, but i am loving my time there, everyone is so helpfull and friendly
Christina thecoffeelady :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 8:34 am
Well, you know I am already a fan! I hope this continues to grow and become successful for a long time to come. I look forward to being a part of this community! Christina
Owen :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 10:47 am
I’ve only joined a couple of days ago, but can feel the love in the forum. Keep it up!
gina :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 11:48 am
I joined the forum last month, and I’m just now getting fully involved with it. Looks to be a great place!
Ankit :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
but it needs more promotion
jelena-nanana :
Date: September 15, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
Hello to all,just joined the forum and to not be ghost user with no posts will post some USELESS joke
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“Smoking in the Rain”
Two old ladies were waiting for a bus and one of them was smoking a cigarette. It started to rain, so the old lady reached into her purse, took out a condom, cut off the tip and slipped it over her cigarette and continued to smoke.
Her friend saw this and said, “Hey that’s a good idea! But, what is that thing you put over your cigarette?”
The other old lady said, “It’s a condom.”
“A condom? Where do you get those?”
The lady with the cigarette told her friend that you could purchase condoms at the pharmacy. When the two old ladies arrived downtown, the old lady with all the questions went into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if he sold condoms. The pharmacist said yes, but looked a little surprised that this old woman was interested in condoms, so he asked her, “What size do you want?”
The old lady thought for a minute and said, “One that will fit a Camel.”
poor,poor Camel
:)
John Sullivan :
Date: September 16, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
Cool site and history Ok so now you want to swap my PR for your Alexa?DEAL cause I always have the GOOGLE BOT ready to love me some more;)
Just having fun.Do u still like stumbles cause I just hit you with one;)
Peace
Thanks
Steven Wilson Marketing :
Date: September 16, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
Just came by circle surfing.I will have to have a look at your forum finder it looks very interesting.
ravi :
Date: September 19, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
iam just looking over forums that related to my content.can u help me out how to incsrease the page rank.submission of site map.iam trying this from last week .help me
Sofhal Jamil :
Date: September 19, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
I’m also looking for forums that containt tips and tricks to increase my page rank, visitors to my page, etc. Tks.
Rogue :
Date: September 19, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
I visited the site since it is new for me and I see that it seems useful. Maybe I would join. Thank you for sharing this information with us. ^^
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Bloggeries :
Date: November 7, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Just got my first view of the forum now that it’s not totally locked. Looks like a good idea. I’ve always been a big fan of forums as a means of traffic and gaining / sharing knowledge.
All the best,
breezie :
Date: November 7, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
I@Bloggeries, I figured I would open up all sections, except the marketing section, and it seems to have been a good idea.
The forum continues to grow on a daily basis, and I think we will be reaching the 400 member mark at least by the end of the month.
kelly :
Date: November 9, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
Hi Breezie! At last I see your blog - it’s VERY pretty!
I am interested to know in what other situations would a blogger be “Google-spanked”? Cos I always thought that paid blogging is alright as long as what you’re paid to blog is in theme with what you’re already blogging.
I know (for sure) if I have a blog about wordpress themes and I blog about something unrelated to wordpress themes, it actually diffuses my page rank. Does it also mean Google will spank the rank?
Anyone - please feel free to clear my confusion!
breezie :
Date: November 9, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
Hi Kelly, google frowns upon paid blogging that doesn’t use the “no follow” tags. They view it as selling links.
The google spank revolved around the members of payperpost, and it happen in October of 2006.
You can blog outside your chosen theme category, and not be in fear of a google spank.
And as far as paid blogging, Google still is not in favor of Payperpost.com, but there are several other paid to blog companies out there that Google has no problems with.
kelly :
Date: November 9, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
Thanks Breezie for the info!
I have never used NOFOLLOW tags for my comments since my blog was page rank 1. And it went to page rank 3 in 2 months. That is what mpuzzles me cos my blog should be penalised (in theory!) Not only this, I never use Google’s Adsense for my blog! (May be not having Google adsense ads is some form of immunity against the spank?)