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SEO Chat

SEO Chat forums are located at http://forums.seochat.com and currently hold the following statistics:

• Google PageRank: 6
• In Bound Links: 1,960 according to Google
• 67,500 Pages indexed by Google.
• 33,769 Members
• 124,717 Threads / Topics
• Alexa Ranking: 815

All of these, along with the huge amount of useful SEO Tools and SEO related articles that can be found on the SEO Chat Home Page at http://www.seochat.com (Google PR 7), are making it one of the largest SEO communities.

SEO Chat rooms are ofcourse discussing only on SEO related topics, but yet response time to a thread can take more than a few hours, depending on the topic.

In the past SEO Chat rooms were much more active, but due to a drop in the value of signature links (adding rel=”nofollow” tags to all OBL) many users had stopped their visits there and past on to other SEO Forums which rewards you for posting. 

Top SERP:

• SEO Forums – #1 on Google with sitelinks (deep links to inner pages that Google algorithm considers to be useful for users that searched that specific search term). – read more here : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&topic=8523
• SEO – 3rd result
• search engine optimization – 3rd result

WebWorkShop SEO Forum

WebWorkShop SEO Forum owned by PhilC, a very well known SEO Expert.

The Forums are filled with visitors and to most of your posts it will take less than 30 minutes to get a response, forum now holds 9,134 members, but those who gives the best answers will be the forums moderators, which you can see their list on the button of the forum.

WebWorkShop focuses only on SEO and nothing else – which is what great about it – many people can compare similiar expiriences, check for answers to questions that other had already solved with or without the help of other members of WebWorkShop.

WebWorkShop exists since November 21st, 2002 and is based on phpbb with many moderations made by PhilC.

Latest additions: User Levels – users which are most helpful gets a link on the top of the forum depending on the number of posts they’ve made and how helpful they are. If you a moderator sees that you are very helpful and wants to keep you on the forum he will give you a rank of MVP which will title to a chance to get your link on the forum. Only top 4 MVP users will have their link up.

Spam Filters:

1. Profiles are not indexed by any search engine.
2. 8 moderators keeps the area clear.
3. Users with less than 50 posts cannot add links to their posts.

SEO Benefits:

1. MVP links. (see latest additions).
2. Signature Links – 50-100 posts title you with 1 signature link above that you can have up to 3 links on each post.
3. Announcing new directories.

Positioning with Google

• #1 on the phrase SEO Forum
• #5 on the phrase PageRank
• #12 on the phase search engine optimization forum

Other statistics:

1. Alexa ranking: 9,178
2. Google PageRank: 5
3. IBL on Google: 152
4. Pages indexed on Google: 23,100

Link to forum: http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum

Statcounter removed backlink

I do not know exactly how long it happened, but I can guess it happened within the last 2 months – Statcounter had added an option to remove the backlink.

They still ask you to give a link back, but it is not a MUST like before.

& please let me quote:

“If you wish you may disable the link back to StatCounter in your code – however we would really appreciate it if you left it in!”

 This step is to my opinion another step in their battle against the new threat by Google Analytics to still their clients.

Will next step be removing the last visitors limit – if only their interface would be more friendly to foreign languages they would have given Google a much better fight.