Best Practices in White Hat Forum Poaching

Forum poaching is not exactly considered “best practices” or “white hat” around forums, in fact it’s considered to be kind of a “black hat” practice and generally looked upon as rather sleazy.

http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20772

What’s interesting in the bashing/whining thread

Censored at SEW

is that there were no “examples” or “references” or even URLs posted. Just kind of a “come onna my house” pity party.

Looking through posts of the past few days, it appears there was a bit of a ruckus going on in this one concerning disagreement about the Supplemental index

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=8823

which PhilC seems to have straightened out rather nicely.

Oct

20

WebmasterWorld Temporary Home

Filed Under Forums | Leave a Comment

Wow, what a huge site to go down! It’s a hardware issue at the host’s end it seems, but Brett has a gerry-rigged arrangement going at a temporary location now with a blow-by-blow of what’s happening

http://www.searchengineworld.com/forum911/1.htm

Jul

16

Keeping Visitors on Your Site

Filed Under Forums, Web Design | Leave a Comment

It has just been posted at WebmasterWorld, and this is one of the finest, most helpful forum posts to hit the net in ages, particularly touching on user friendly site navigation, one of the things that so many people have problems with. Definite bookmark quality and a must - read by mack, the moderator of the newbies forum

Keeping Visitors on Your Site