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June 17, 2005

Nominate Best Search Forum

In light of the MarketingSherpa awards, I thought it would be fitting for this site to hold a Search Engine Roundtable Best Search Forum 2005 Award. The first step is to nominate your favorite search forums. If there is enough of a response, then I will design a survey asking particulars about the nominated forums. The survey will be anonymous and work much like the MarketingSherpa survey. I will probably ask questions about forum style, friendliness, professionalism, homeyness and so on.

If you would like to nominate a forum, please either add a comment below or email searchforum@gmail.com.

Nomination period will run until Monday, June 27th at 9am (EST).

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posted rustybrick in SEO Forum News at June 17, 2005 8:52 AM Comments (15)

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I'd like to nominate SEO Chat.

Posted by Dazzlindonna at June 17, 2005 09:52

SearchGuild :)

Unique, friendly, lots of style, no sucking up, innovative, as home-from-home as you can get and loads of good professional stuff as well as the silly bits.

/advert>

Posted by Gurtie at June 17, 2005 10:16

For so many reasons that is a cunning idea Barry. Nice One!
I would nominate a forum but you are my channel to the foums so my nomination would be the same as yours.

Posted by Rob at June 17, 2005 14:22

Only 3 comments...hmm... Is there any interest in this?

Posted by Barry Schwartz at June 17, 2005 14:23

There are so many good forums out there, each with its own slice of uniqueness. I would like to nominate Cre8asite Forums, because of all the booku's of briliant people over there making it a top-notch place to learn.

Posted by Ben Pfeiffer at June 17, 2005 14:42

Well, let's put it this way - I don't think a single blog entry is really pushing the seriousness of the contest. :)

You're basically just asking for an opnion, rathger than a formal voting process to take place.

For what it's worth, I'm with SEW. :)

Posted by Brian at June 17, 2005 15:20

This is just the non formal nomination process.

The voting process will be very professional.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at June 17, 2005 15:31

Don't worry, Barry. There's plenty of interest, we're just all slow this week. I'm going to link on over, and hopefully you'll get some other noms.

Posted by randfish at June 17, 2005 19:31

JimWorld. The balance of what they tolerate and what they won't is very professional. I've secretly staked out a lot of forums and, seriously, many allow way too much and some are way too picky. Sometime annoying people have something to say, sometimes they really don't. I think the JimWorld people moonlight as college professors; they're very open-minded and equally as bright, and they can spot intelligent thought miles away hidden in the bushes. Also, of course, they're always right there when you need them and they will help you until you don't need helping, even if you're very new and very ... dense. Basically, they're all you need, in my opinion.

Posted by JM at June 17, 2005 22:17

Hey, where do we vote?

Can we do it survivor style, bocking people out? "SEO Chat - The tribal council has spoken. You have been eliminated". Would be well funny :)

Posted by Mike at June 17, 2005 22:29

I'd like to nominate forums.digitalpoint.com

Posted by Sorvoja at June 19, 2005 06:50

I have taken a shot at this - very unscientific, I admit, and prejudicial, but it may provide some ideas for your survey.
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-webmaster-forums.htm
I rank the forums by # of posts, to show where the action is.

Posted by Surf-Dude at June 19, 2005 10:54

I would like to nominate my favourite webmaster forum geekvillage, http://www.geekvillage.com/.

Posted by Bondings at June 21, 2005 05:37

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/
best on the net

Posted by thrifty at June 24, 2005 15:13

I would like to nominate the controversial Black Hat Forums at http://www.syndk8.com - I am biased because i created them.

Posted by EarlGrey at June 29, 2005 02:51