Hello everyone!Starting today we are running a post competition over the next 30 days. It starts today (Sunday, September 14th and ends at 12 midnight on Monday, October 13th. All you have to do is make as many posts as possible during that time period on the forum at http://www.thebiggestboards.com/forums/ .

Here are the rules:
1) There are 2 top prizes. The 2 people with the most posts during the time period will win the prizes shown below.
2) Your posts must be UNIQUE and ORIGINAL (not copied from another forum or another site). If you violate this rule, you will be disqualified.
3) Your posts must have substance and be somewhat informative. Posts like “welcome to the forum”, “thank you for this”, “good info”, etc… that don’t add anything of value to this forum will NOT be counted. Each post needs to be 10 words or more to be counted and we WILL be checking this for each post.
4) You can NOT reply to yourself or keep posting without anyone replying to your thread. There MUST be another post between your posts to count
5) The decisions of the TBB Admin and staff are final for determining if posts count or not.

First place will win $50
Second place will win $25
Payment will be made via Paypal

To enter this contest, just start posting today!

Please be sure to follow the rules so you don’t get disqualified.

We are excited to be doing our first post contest and have such great prizes to give out. We look forward to your participation at http://www.thebiggestboards.com/forums/

Yours in good health;
The Entire TBB Team!

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Recently I have become acquainted with Danny Thornton. You may recognize the name since he is a prolific blogger. Over the past few months I have really enjoyed reading his stuff and getting to know him.

Danny blogs on many different topics including sports, real estate, blogging, and a wide variety of other topics. What first made me notice his blog posts was the fact that his articles were spread out over a wide range of sites that were networked together in many creative ways. Also he used Digg and many of the other available social networking avenues to spread the exposure of his work. His posts are widely read and he is making some nice money from all his efforts on the internet. Many people spend countless hours online, but only a small percentage actually profit from all the hours they put in. Danny is one of the people actually succeeding in the crowded “blogging world”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Below is an article from Soundboy. He will be contributing regular articles to The Biggest Boards Blog. We encourage you to check out his website and check back often for new articles from Soundboy in the future!

Going “GREEN” and saving the environment is all the rage these days. It seems that everyone is jumping on the green bandwagon. So why have you not gotten into the action with your websites?

Hi I’m James, A.K.A Soundboy.  I am a guest writer to The Biggest Boards Blog and I’m here to tell you the best secrets, tips and freebies for webmasters and forum owners. Let’s get started.

There has been a lot of debate and ongoing scientific research about how to save the planet and get things back on ecological track.  Most companies, businesses, and products are going green. But what about webmasters?

It seems to be the trend for webmasters to use the “green” mantra to proclaim their support of this movement AND it seems to attract a lot of users. But many website owners ask themselves how they can be “greener” when their sites are virtual? There are many ways but you have to think back further and revisit how you create, manage, and operate your site.

There are many steps to be a greener webmaster, and here are five we can show you!

1. Green Hosting

Many hosts now offer green hosting plans. Read the rest of this entry »

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Below is a guest article from Sakura. He will be contributing regular articles to The Biggest Boards Blog. We encourage you to check out his website and check back often for new articles from Sakura in the future!

Choosing Forum Staff
By Sakura

Over the years I have joined many forums.  On each forum I make a point to investigate how the site’s Admin (aka the owner) has their staff set up. I am here to give you my opinions on choosing forum staff.

First off let’s start with choosing Admins and what they do about the forums.

The Admins are in charge of the whole forum and have Admin Control Panel access. They can change the forum settings, change themes, etc. This MUST be a person you trust.

The best way in my opinion is to pick a good trusted friend to help you run your forum board. Someone you actually know in real life (offline) and have a long history with is normally the best way to go.  But in many cases a person like this is not available. For example in my case I chose a trusted internet friend who I had a known for a considerable amount of time online and felt would make a positive addition to the management team on my forum. After some discussion about exactly what being in the position would mean they were made an Admin to help me manage and run my forums.

Choose your co-Admin wisely, because Read the rest of this entry »

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On the Main Site Directory we have added the ability to filter the forums in the directory by Category. You will now see a new drop down menu on all of the pages of the main site and can choose whichever category group of forums you want to view. The results will be shown from largest forum in the category (by post count) to the smallest.

We are still tweaking this new feature, but are excited about the addition to the site and directory. More info to come about this and other new features soon.

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Below is a guest article from Soundboy aka James from Broadcasting World. He will be contributing regular articles to The Biggest Boards Blog. We encourage you to check out his website and check back often for new articles from Soundboy /James!

It’s pretty obvious why most online communities fail, but most people and the people who make these forums don’t see it.

Hi I’m James, A.K.A Soundboy.  I am new to The Biggest Boards Blog and I’m here to tell you the best secrets, tips and freebies for webmasters and forum owners.

There are too many dumb webmasters out there with little to no knowledge of how to spend money wisely and actually run a forum efficiently. I see too many mistakes in sites and forums, its a wonder they just don’t give up. Doesn’t NO new member sign ups mean anything to them? Here is my top 5 list of things not to do!

1. Leave It To Survive

You cannot just buy software, throw a new forum up onto the net…then abandon it and expect it to grow! You need content, members (friends, family) and you need to concentrate! I bet there are MILLIONS of forums just lying around! Get off your bums and get it running. Any forum can become a hit with content, patience, good management, and something different. But remember, you need to Read the rest of this entry »

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As of today over 400 forums and message boards have submitted to The Big List !

The growth has been incredible and we hope to be over 1000 forums submitted in the near future.

Thank you to everyone for helping spread the word about The Biggest boards!

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We have adjusted our automated script to now pull the stats (members, threads, posts) from each forum already on the list 4 times a day. The times are 12 midnight, 6am, 12 noon and 6pm (all Eastern Standard Time).

New forums that submit to be on The Big List will now show up within 2 hours of being submitting. After that they will fall into the update schedule mentioned above with all of the other forums..

We have done this so the rankings for each forum will update more frequently during the day. This will also help make the statistics shown on the list at any given time more accurate and current.

We thank you again for your ongoing support referring sites to sign up on The Big List and for you participation here on the forums!

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We are working on some badges and images that you can add to your site to show off your site profile page.  To get the code you will just need to go to your site profile page here and you will see your image that will show info about your site.

Please feel free to share ideas on what should be on this image for your site and what sizes you would want available.

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We are pleased to announce we have individual site profile pages completed. We are integrating this into the list over the next couple days. The main list on the index page (http://www.thebiggestboards.com) already works in this manner.

Clicking on a site now takes you to the site profile page where you can see a screen shot of the forum, Alexa Charts, Alexa Ranking, Google PR and more! From here, you can visit the site in a new window by clicking the link on the profile page.

For example: Click Here or you can click on a forum from the main index page or any list in the next day or so.

In addition all the Individual page URLs will now be in SEFURL Friendly format. For example:
http://www.thebiggestboards.com/120/Computers-Webmaster/vBulletin-Setup/

Please let us know any suggestions and or feedback on this new feature.

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