While I was away Adam Toren, one of the founders of YoungEntrepreneur.com, put me on to this blog post which highlights the most popular webmaster forums online.

According to the blog: “The list contains forums about Webmaster resources, Search engine optimization (SEO), Domain names, Blogs and blogging, Internet marketing, Affiliate marketing and Web development.”

The list is ranked from number 1 to 75 according to how popular they are in Alexa. I’m pleased to see that YoungEntrepreneur.com made the list coming in at the number 39 spot with an Alexa ranking of 27,491 at the time the poll was created.

The full list looks at blogs from all sorts of different topics but all of them seem to have a common focus on helping people build an online business.

A flaw in the polling, however, is that the list looks at the overall Alexa score of the website and doesn’t rank how popular the forum communities are. For example, coming in at the number 9 spot is http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/. The main business of Search Engine Watch is the news section of the site, not the forums. It’s what drives the traffic and helps boost its Alexa ranking. Their forums only have 116,000 posts and 11,000 members.

YoungEntrepreneur.com, on the other hand, has a lower Alexa score but most of the traffic to the site goes right to the forums. As a result the YoungEntrepreneur.com forums have 139,000 posts and 31,000 members.

Regardless of the accuracy of the list, it’s a useful one to look at for anyone trying to build an online business. While my favorite is, of course, our YoungEntrepreneur.com forums, this list has showcased a few new ones that I haven’t heard of before and will be sure to visit.

Which are your favorite online forums?

Evan Carmichael
YoungEntrepreneur.com Blog Manager

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