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Top 3 forum informatique – les meilleurs partout dans le Monde –

  Bonjour la famille web-hobbies, aujourd’hui on va vous citer les 3 meilleurs forums sur lesquels n’importe quelle informaticien peut se baser .

Tous d’abord, et pour bien profiter des information de ces sites web, il faut y avoir un bon niveau en anglais.

Top 3 forum informatique

Alors on va commencer par le 1er forum c’est : www.…

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Top 3 best forums to advertise your web hosting business

As a followup of my previous blog post I thought it's only normal I should post the best forums as well, to see how they compare with the worst forums.

On the 1st place we have:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45

By far the most popular web hosting forum out there, it's very well organized and structured.

They allow Normal Users to post in each marketplace section once every 7 days. Emphasis added on "each" because this is very important, as opposed to many other forums from this branch, webhostingtalk does not bulk together all hosting types (shared, reseller, vps, vds, cloud, dedicated servers, etc).

They offer 2 types of Memberships:

- The premium one which will allow you to post in the Marketplace every 6 days (as opposed to every 7 days like Normal Users). This membership cost is pretty much affordable for anyone, $49.99/year

- The corporate membership offers you the ability to post every 3 days in the Marketplace Section, but it's not for every pocket, $100 - $125 /month.

Additional to the Membership benefits you can also, individually, boost each of your Marketplace threads. The prices for boosting your threads differ from section to section (eg: Shared Web Hosting section has higher prices than the Reseller Web Hosting section).

I'll go into the prices for the Shared Web Hosting section. You can upgrade your thread as follows:

1. You can sticky your thread, price $200/week (it's pretty much always sold out)

2. Highlight your thread in yellow, price: $30/week

3. Have your thread tweeted to Web Hosting Talk's 18,000+ followers on Twitter, price: $75/week (keep in mind that most of their followers are not interested in buying your web hosting services, as they are probably selling their own as well)

4. Make your thread title big and bold, stands out among the other thread titles, price $30/week

*Observations: (1) is pretty much always sold out so you'll have a hard time catching a break, and it's quite expensive; the (2) and (4) are good, makes your thread really stand out and pop, but without (1) your thread will get pushed to the second page within 12hrs after posting, thus making (2) and (4) kinda useless; and as I've said (3) is only meant for some services not for all, since you'll be approaching an audience of sellers as well, not really buyers.

On 2nd place we have:

https://forums.digitalpoint.com/forums/web-hosting.98/

DigitalPoint is one of the biggest Forums on the Internet, with huge numbers of visitors, your advertising thread will get great exposure here as well.

Probably one of the first things that pops out is the heavily modded vBulletin Forum, as a programmer myself I can only admire the work they've put into customizing and modding the forum, it has unique features that I've never seen anywhere else on any other vBulletin forum. And despite it being a huge forum it is lightning fast.

Their general Marketplace section is well structured, but unfortunately the WebHosting section of the market is just one section, no further structure there, so everything goes in the same place, kinda of a pileup of threads in there.

If you upgrade to their Premium Membership you will be able to bump your marketplace post every 7 days (as opposed to every 30 days like Normal Users), and also they won't fill your post with third party ads, like they do with Normal Users' posts. The bad part though is that you can bump only one thread on the entire forum, every 7 days, so it's not one thread per section. Another benefit of their Premium Membership is the fact that your thread gets 2hrs sticky after you post it and 2hrs sticky at the end of the auction if you make it an auction.

Tip: Make your web hosting thread an auction that lasts 3 days, this way you'll have it sticky 2hrs after you post it, 2hrs 3 days later, and another 4 days later you can bump it / re-list it, and repeat the entire process allover again. I found this to be the max exposure.

Other than the premium membership they don't offer any other (forum specific) methods of boosting your thread.

On the 3rd place, way way behind:

http://www.freewebhostingtalk.com/

This only applies for free web hosting offers, if you have any.

FreeWebHostingTalk has been recently acquired by WebHostingTalk's owners iNet interactive. The forum severely lacks the success of WebHostingTalk.

Not much else to say about it, I'm guessing the new owners hope for a growth before introducing any paid means of promoting your services.

For now you can simply post a normal thread, and that's pretty much it.

[quick-tech-news]

DigitalPoint forums founder pleads guilty to affiliate marketing fraud

Shawn Hogan, the CEO of Digital Point Solutions, famous for it's webmasters forum "DigitalPoint forums", was accused sued of fraud by eBay who cooperated with the FBI to root out affiliate marketers whose success was a bit too good to be true.

eBay accused Hogan of manipulating eBay's system by seeding unknowing users with hundreds of thousands of specific cookies. If any of those people bought something on eBay, the code signaled to eBay that it was through Hogan affiliate links — even though he had done nothing to promote eBay.

Hogan claims that eBay had known for a long time how he generated his sales.

Hogan was indicted and sued by ebay for its money back,  Hogan pleaded guilty to a single charge of wire fraud , he has  not yet been sentenced, but can get up to 20 years in prison.