350+ Forum Submission Sites to Get Backlinks and Drive Traffic

When there was no YouTube or Google, people were forced to stick to traditional mediums to acquire knowledge and gather information. The Internet has been a breakthrough channel for sharing information. 

Now you can send your message across effectively and connect with millions of people like never before.  

If you ask your parents or grandparents, I’m sure they would agree that the Internet has revolutionized the form of communication because they did not have such liberty to share anything with the world and build an audience. 

Sharing of information and putting your word out on any topic is like a superpower because you cannot only monetize your skills but build virtual relationships globally through the internet. 

There are so many platforms where you can discuss any random topic with like-minded people and comment on your views about the subject matter.

If you have what it takes, you can grow your following and improve your network online through conveying and sharing information through discussion.

What is Forum Submission?

Forum submission is one such activity where you go to a website, a forum submission sites, find out what people are talking about your industry and share a genuine comment with your point of view regarding the context. 

In SEO, form submission websites have a particular role in providing backlinks to websites.

Whenever you find a relevant topic on a particular forum, you write a detailed answer according to that specific niche. In that answer, you also provide a hyperlink, which is a backlink to your landing page.

Through this whole scenario, you try to get maximum do-follow backlinks from high-quality forum websites, and you also ensure to get more website traffic by redirecting people to your landing pages in search of more information.

Marketing agencies or online advertisers have been including forum submissions as part of their online marketing services packages intending to build backlinks for clients’ websites. 

Forum submission is one of the oldest forms of creating inbound links for your landing pages to get SEO benefits and rank higher in search engine result pages.

But as search engine algorithms are evolving, some marketers also believe that forum submission sites are no longer effective in creating SEO value and improving search engine rankings.

So, do they really work? Let’s focus more on that point.

Is Forum Submission still Working for SEO?

During the initial days of search engine optimization, backlinks are the only parameter required to rank higher in search engine result pages.

So, website owners tried to focus only on backlinks irrespective of relevancy and quality. That mindset led to black hat SEO, where people were just spamming irrelevant comments on forum sites for the sake of creating backlinks and improving organic rankings.

At that time, forum submission was the go-to solution for getting more backlinks and improving search engine rankings.

Earlier, forum submission websites used to provide do-follow backlinks to websites. Do-follow backlinks are the powerful signal of getting better rankings in search engine result pages.

As time passed, search engine algorithms have become smarter, and they have made stricter rules to determine whether landing pages are relevant for ranking or not.

Given that backlinks are still relevant, the method which was used earlier is no longer working in 2020.

Having said that, there are many online discussion websites available where you can contribute your point, add value to the discussions, and also ensure your relevant backlink that could generate decent referral traffic to the desired landing pages.

Online forums and discussion websites like Quora and Reddit are still great platforms to reach thousands of relevant audience, who search these platforms to find relevant answers to their questions.

Here, are you can write relevant answers to the questions and also cite your custom landing page if it helps the discussion. 

Most of the excellent quality forum websites no longer provide a do-follow backlink.  Therefore, by submitting your site on these websites, you can maintain the ratio of do-follow and no-follow backlinks and get relevant people to your websites.

Let’s discuss from which of the places of these forum websites you can get backlinks.

Where to get Backlink from Forum

• From Profile

Most of the forum submission websites ask you to create a profile. It is similar to a social media platform where you have to sign up on the platform to be able to access it.

When you submit your answers in the forum, you need a profile through which you can contribute answers.

You cannot simply go to these websites and publish answers as a guest.  You need a verified profile with all the necessary details to start leveraging forum submission websites for SEO benefits.

While creating the profile, the forum will allow you to enter your website URL in detail to showcase your work to the audience. Check out an example below of a Quora profile.

Whether you are representing a client, a company or your own blog, you will be able to enter a relevant URL in the profile so that if someone wants to connect to you or visits your profile on the forum, they can redirect to your website.

Most of the forum websites provide a no-follow backlink, but that’s ok because these links are still powerful enough to generate loads of referral traffic.

• Signature Links

Signature links are backlinks cited at the end of the answer. It is a citation that redirects the user to the third-party website.

For example, if you are commenting on health and fitness forum to build backlinks for your professional blog.  

At that time, after writing something on the forum, you mention your name, followed by your website name and citation to it. 

You can also mention links to third-party resources in your signature.

• Post Threads

Post threads are the answers or conversations around a particular question of the field of study on the forum.

Along with the answers that you have shared on relevant questions, so you can mention relevant backlinks to a website. You can also cite a relevant backlink on the appropriate anchor text from the post or the answer.  

See the below snapshot of how relevant backlinks are mentioned in a Reddit thread.

This way, you can redirect the reader to the relevant landing pages whenever they are reading your post on the thread.

Things to Consider Before Creating Forum Profile

You cannot just go to all the forums and start sharing your backlink. There are some things that you need to consider to leverage the medium.

• Make Sure It is Relevant 

Before you decide to engage on a forum website, make sure it is relevant to your niche. Relevancy goes a long way in search engine optimization. 

Through forum commenting, you are aspiring to get more relevant users to your landing pages. So, if you own a diet blog and you start commenting on the forums of entertainment, then it will give you no fruit unless the discussion is relevant. 

• Create a Genuine Profile

Moreover, while creating the profile, never avoid anything that is relevant to your business. Always share your real name, email address, headshot (if possible), and website URL.

Remember that your profile will be the face of the company on the forum, so you must ensure that it is relevant and genuine.

Things not to Do on The Forums

• Never Spam 

Spamming is the last thing that you want to do when you are doing online marketing.  Especially in forums and good quality discussion websites, irrelevant post threads would be considered as spam and might lead to profile banning.

Quora and Reddit have a stringent evaluation framework where they assess all the answers and determine whether it is relevant to the question.

If the answer is not relevant, they find it fishy and delete the answer. In some cases, they might also ban the profile.

• Answer Not For the Sack of Answering

On the online forum submission websites,  your focus should never be on creating backlinks only.  

I understand that you have a deadline to meet, and you have to create a certain number of backlinks for the client. However, you are creating backlinks to generate more referral traffic and organic search engine traffic for your websites.

If you keep answering all the questions and mentioning your links in all of them throughout the forum, it would make no sense at all.

You should try to build a reputation on the forum by answering a few generic questions to educate and provide information to the readers.

• Don’t Use Hate Speech 

While explaining your point of view with a fellow member, always be respectful, and show gratitude to the readers and fellow writers of the forum.

Sometimes, the discussions might get proactive, and conversations become heated. At that time, you have to keep your calm.

Never use cuss words or reprimand someone. Only if the context of the discussion requires you to write the rash language, then only you should prefer that type of language.

Here is the list of Forum Submission Sites

URL	DA
26403.dynamicboard.de	40
localsearchforum.com	40
askaboutmoney.com	40
altcoinstalks.com	40
cyclingforums.com	41
dnforum.com	41
litecointalk.io	41
forums.mozilla.or.kr	42
treiber.de	42
zyngaplayerforums.com	42
dreamteammoney.com	42
topmudsites.com	42
forum.websitebaker.org	42
austech.info	42
deeponion.org	42
topmudsites.com/forums	43
fashionindustrynetwork.com/forum	43
chinalanguage.com/forums	43
gardenstew.com	43
skepticforum.com	43
gpwa.org	43
security-forums.com	43
homeopathyhome.com	43
fashionindustrynetwork.com	43
forums.online-sweepstakes.com	44
fishsniffer.com	44
enetget.com	44
forums.lablit.com	45
homeservershow.com/forums	45
scarlet-clicks.info	45
seomastering.com	45
homeservershow.com	45
unicyclist.com	45
game-editor.com	45
forums.onlinebookclub.org	46
cyburbia.org	46
forum.meteonetwork.it	46
alldeaf.com	46
abestweb.com	46
forums.formz.com	47
forums.mymemories.com	47
indusladies.com/forums	47
forums.hostsearch.com	47
forum.wpde.org	47
loinc.org	47
computerforum.com	47
threadwatch.org	47
indusladies.com	47
forum.undernet.org	48
compass.centralmethodist.edu	48
ethicalhacker.net	48
sheffieldforum.co.uk	48
cryptocurrencytalk.com	48
techexams.net	48
forums.hawkhost.com	49
knsz.prz.edu.pl	49
veteranaid.org/forums	49
v7n.com/forums	49
articles.abilogic.com	49
nec.phorum.pl	49
korea4expats.com/forum-south-korea	50
gamershood.com/forum	50
rarityguide.com/forums	50
antionline.com	50
forums.phpbb-fr.com	50
wickedfire.com	50
forum.level1techs.com	50
forums.debian.net	51
theadminzone.com	51
freewebsitetemplates.com	51
ganoksin.com/orchid	51
forum.cmsmadesimple.org	51
gamershood.com	51
ozzu.com	52
blackberryforums.com	52
sysnative.com	52
starity.hu	52
forums.fedoraforum.org	52
homedistiller.org	52
studentedge.org/forums	53
gmatclub.com/forum	53
gamecareerguide.com	53
forums.zmanda.com	53
gmatclub.com	53
windowsbbs.com	53
universalmediaserver.com/forum	54
ocdaction.org.uk/forum	54
webdeveloper.com	54
softcatala.org	54
ocdaction.org.uk	54
forum.submitexpress.com	55
forum.textpattern.com	55
submitexpress.com/bbs	55
forum.whatismyip.com	55
forum.twilightlexicon.com	55
mac-forums.com	55
forum.framasoft.org	56
moodle.nic.cz	56
namepros.com/index.php	56
knittinghelp.com/forum	56
expat-blog.com/forum	56
forum.topeleven.com	56
wysiwygwebbuilder.com	56
forum.parallels.com	56
wahm.com	56
erc.edu	56
technibble.com	56
pcspecialist.co.uk	56
forums.windowsecurity.com	56
forums.vintagefashionguild.org	56
forum.whiskymag.com	56
namepros.com	56
expat-blog.com	56
galleryproject.org/forum	57
syncfusion.com/forums	57
galleryproject.org	57
movie-list.com	57
forum.axishistory.com	57
discussions.vtiger.com	57
syncfusion.com	57
forums.caspio.com	57
spamihilator.com	57
StupidVideos.com	58
ru.piwigo.org	58
envirolink.org/forum	58
theguild.informe.com	58
seo-forum.link-assistant.com	58
ecomodder.com	58
envirolink.org	58
forum.pcmech.com	58
bellazon.com	58
inbound.org	58
coingage.co	58
forum.antp.be	59
forum.maniaplanet.com	59
blackhatworld.com	59
cryptozoic.com	59
community.mybb.com	59
forums.ocworkbench.com	59
teach-nology.com	59
df.eu	59
pricescope.com	59
basenotes.net	59
forums.mexonline.com	59
kanyetothe.com	59
cboard.cprogramming.com	60
beamng.com	60
dreamincode.net	60
delphiforums.com	60
forums.devshed.com	60
blenderartists.org/forum	60
themeparkreview.com/forum	60
tale-of-tales.com	60
hometheaterforum.com	60
styleforum.net	60
bbpress.org/forums	61
cs.trains.com	61
blenderartists.org	61
bbpress.org	61
forums.securityinfowatch.com	61
pcguide.com	61
forums.equestriadaily.com	62
talk.collegeconfidential.com	62
forums.watchuseek.com/forum.php	62
alice.org/community	62
forum.ionicframework.com	62
forums.foxitsoftware.com	62
testfreaks.com	62
azbyka.ru	62
forums.watchuseek.com	62
xtremesystems.org	62
bookforum.com	63
travellerspoint.com/forum.cfm	63
Viewster.com	63
resurrection.bungie.org	63
ckeditor.com/forums	63
ecommercebytes.com/forums	63
travellerspoint.com	63
ecommercebytes.com	63
overclockers.com	63
chictopia.com	63
ckeditor.com/oldforums	64
forums.redflagdeals.com	64
rw-designer.com/forum	64
warriorforum.com	64
eubusiness.com/discussion	64
eubusiness.com	64
debate.org/forums	64
ecastats.uneca.org	64
ckeditor.com	64
forum.luminous-landscape.com	64
rw-designer.com	64
portablefreeware.com	64
digitalstorm.com	64
geekstogo.com	64
womanandhome.com	64
forum.html.it	64
bbs.iodata.jp	65
kvraudio.com/forum	65
forums.techguy.org	65
cmsimpleforum.com	65
forum.avantbrowser.com	65
shroomery.org	65
coffeecup.com	65
debate.org	65
forum.rpg.net	65
forum.digital-digest.com	65
getmiro.com	66
shroomery.org/forums	66
coffeecup.com/forums	66
forum.cyclinguk.org	66
council.smallwarsjournal.com	66
forums.seochat.com	67
wilderssecurity.com	67
webhostingtalk.com	67
teachertube.com	67
forum.gsmhosting.com	67
cycling74.com	67
seochat.com	67
forums.computershopper.com	67
india-forums.com	67
forums.thedigitalfix.com	67
blinkx.com	68
mathforum.org	68
techsupportforum.com	68
forums.bellaonline.com	68
thestudentroom.co.uk/forum.php	68
dynamicdrive.com	68
forum.dbpoweramp.com	68
thestudentroom.co.uk	68
daniweb.com	68
mgldev.scripps.edu/forum	69
discourse.omnigroup.com	69
forums.devx.com	69
mgldev.scripps.edu	69
godtube.com	70
writersdigest.com/forum	70
mediamonkey.com/forum	70
gforge.wits.ac.za	70
pantallaglobalpostexposicio.cccb.org	70
sencha.com	70
mediamonkey.com	70
soundonsound.com	70
forums.hannity.com	70
banan.cz	71
forum.purseblog.com	71
sanparks.org	71
forums.kayako.com	71
en.forum.laptop.org	71
oneindia.in	72
forums.mozillazine.org	72
forums.overclockers.co.uk	72
thaivisa.com	72
techno-science.net	72
ecwid.com	72
forum.webflow.com	72
cryptocompare.com	72
ecwid.com	72
viddler.com	73
forum.santabanta.com	73
forums.gentoo.org	73
forum.owncloud.org	73
coachella.com	73
forums.mydigitallife.info	74
boards.straightdope.com	74
forums.digitalpoint.com	74
hardforum.com	75
crackle.com	75
forum.ableton.com	75
neosmart.net	75
marketingprofs.com	75
forums.comicbookresources.com	75
my.gurl.com	75
simplemachines.org/community	76
webmasterworld.com	76
avsforum.com	76
duc.avid.com	76
lookbook.nu	76
forum.ethereum.org	76
sevenforums.com	76
forums.seroundtable.com	77
ubuntuforums.org	77
kirupa.com	77
forums.afterdawn.com	77
forum.winehq.org	77
mywot.com/enforum	78
jibjab.com	78
forum.qip.ru	78
mywot.com	78
fotki.com	79
city-data.com/forum	79
cruzroja.es	79
forum.daemon-tools.cc	79
forums.superherohype.com	79
forums.thefashionspot.com	79
sba.gov/community	80
forums.linuxmint.com	80
chronicle.com/forums	80
chronicle.com	80
boards.core77.com	80
topix.com/forum	80
GrindTV.com	81
digital-photography-school.com/forum	81
forums.envato.com	81
phpbt.online.fr	81
city-data.com	81
topix.com	81
digital-photography-school.com	81
forums.guru3d.com	81
fashionbeans.com	81
discussion.femalefirst.co.uk	81
forums.pcper.com	81
forums.asp.net	82
forums.moneysavingexpert.com	82
digitalocean.com/community	82
digitalocean.com	82
computerhope.com	82
vogue.com.au	82
forum.audacityteam.org	82
mybroadband.co.za	82
joblo.com	83
forums.majorgeeks.com	83
myvideo.de	84
forum.filezilla-project.org	84
forum.lowyat.net	84
forums.xkcd.com	85
hints.macworld.com	85
forum.siteground.com	85
forum.statcounter.com/vb	85
idpf.org	85
skyscrapercity.com	85
xenforo.com	85
brightcove.com	86
funnyordie.com	86
forum.statcounter.com	86
community.cbr.com	86
xenforo.com/community	86
phpbb.com	86
bitcointalk.org	86
forum.arduino.cc	87
community.sitepoint.com	87
techspot.com	87
techrepublic.com	87
neowin.net/forum	88
eclipse.org	88
adblockplus.org	88
forum.bitdefender.com	88
forum.xat.com	88
ultimate-guitar.com	88
neowin.net	88
forum.bodybuilding.com	88
moz.com	89
forum.openoffice.org	89
sci.rutgers.edu	89
bleepingcomputer.com	89
allkpop.com	89
message.snopes.com	89
forum.bitcoin.com	89
forum.kaspersky.com	90
forums.macrumors.com	90
forums.hostgator.com	90
forum.joomla.org	91
forums.futura-sciences.com	91
community.amd.com	91
forum.piriform.com	91
drupal.org	91
forum.wordreference.com	92
flickr.com/helpforum	92
community.skype.com	92
answers.yahoo.com	92
flickr.com	92
fvwmforums.org	92
manufacturing.autodesk.com	92
forum.utorrent.com	92
forum.ovh.com	93
000webhost.com	93
ecommerce.shopify.com/forums	93
theverge.com/forums	93
forums.mysql.com	93
icl.cs.utk.edu	93
theory.cm.utexas.edu	93
theverge.com	93
ecommerce.shopify.com	93
vip.asus.com	93
forums.cpanel.net	94
cnet.com	94
forums.myspace.com	95
wordpress.org/support	98
wordpress.org	98
answers.microsoft.com	100

Conclusion

I’d love to know your thoughts in the comments below about what do you think about forum submission websites.

These are the necessary steps and opportunities of creating backlinks that you can leverage in 2020 to get better search engine ranking and generate traffic to your landing page.