Forum is one of the best ways to advertise and generate traffic to your blog or website.

In my old post, “Ways to Generate Traffic to Your Blog”, participating in forums is one way to generate traffic to your blog or website. This is true if the forum allows you to add a link of your blogs or websites in your signature. So, every time you participate in the forum discussions and/or post a new topic you are promoting and/or advertising your blogs or websites as it appears always at your signature where members and guests could see them.

You can join as many forums as you like. Be sure to make sure your links in your signature looks attractive to make them noticeable. But before so doing you must read the forum rules about signature because every forum has its own signature rules that are different from the other.

I am a member of more than 20 forums and the page impressions I’m receiving are quite satisfactory. Remember that traffic plays an important role in generating revenue if the purpose of your blog or website is to make money online. Without a single traffic the site is nothing though it looks good and the design is perfectly well.

Following is a list of moneymaking and webmaster forums on the net. I’m updating the list, so if you knew other moneymaking and webmaster forums that are not in the list and want to contribute it please feel free to do so. Simply leave the site or forum URL as a comment below.

5StarAffiliateMarketingForum – affiliate programs discussion forum

ABestWeb – affiliate marketing discussion forum

AccornDomain - the leading community of UK Domain Name traders, buyers and sellers

AdultWebmasterInfo – webmasters forum

Affilaite4U – general affiliate programs discussion forum

AssociatePrograms – affiliate programs discussion forum

AurumGamesForum – money making opportunities and investments online

BloggerForum – forum that focus on blogging

BusinessForum – business community forum

CariGold – money making opportunities and investment online

ClickBankSuccessForum - forum for getting answers to ClickBank questions.

Code4GoldForum – affiliate entrepreneur moneymaker forum

Cre8asiteForums - creative web sites and vibrant online business forum

DaniWeb – webmasters and programmers forum

DDBoard – domain discussion board forum

DealCatcher – deals and freebies forum

DevShed - webmasters and programmers forum on web development

DigitalPoint – IM, search engine and webmasters forum

DiscussNames – domain discussion forum

DNForum – domain name forum

DNLodge – webmasters forum

DNScoop – domain and web developer forums

DomainForums - active community of domain name owners, domain investors and domain sellers

DomainState – domain and hosting discussion forum

DreamTeamMoney – money making opportunities and investments online

EWealth – internet an affiliate marketing forum

FatWallet – finance and money making discussion forum

FreeStuffHotDeals – free stuff, hot deals, coupons, sweeps and freebies forums

FreeStuffPage - another forum for hot deals, freebies and free stuffs

FreeAdvertisingForum – free classified ads about business, product, service or affiliate program

FreeCalssifiedAdsForum - free classified ads about work at home and home based business opportunities

FreeWebSpace – free web hosting forum

FrontPageWebmaster – web administration and money making forum

GeneralForum – money making discussion forum

GetPaidForum – money making opportunities and investments online

GlobalGoldTalk – money making opportunities and investments online

GoldAge – money making opportunities and investments online

GoldenTalk – money making opportunities and investments online

GoogleCommunity – Google related features forum

GPTBoycott – forum about complaints on GPT programs

GreatPinoyForum - a combination of free online business and Filipino social network

HighRankings – ranking and SEO forum

HomeWorking – forum for stay-at-home people wants to make money online

HostingDiscussion - hosting and web server administration discussion forum

HostingForum - web hosting reviews and discussion forum

HotSurfsTalk – money making opportunities and investment online

HTMLForums – web development, administration and design forum

HYIPForum – money making opportunities and investments online

HYIPInvestmentForum – money making opportunities and investments online

HYIPsTalk – money making opportunities and investments online

IDNForums – domain discussion forum

IHelpYou – SEO best practices search engine forum

IM4Newbies – internet marketing forum

InternetBasedMoms – online money making forum for Moms

IWebTool – webmaster-related stuff discussion forum

iTalkCash – money making opportunities and investments online

KingOfDollars - money making opportunities and investments online

MegaCashForum – money making opportunities and investments online

MommySavers – online money making forum for Moms

Money-DebateForum – money making opportunities and investment online

MoneyFanClub – money making opportunities and investments online

MoneyMakerGroup - money making opportunities and investments online

MoneySavingExpert - UK based forum on moneysaving and online moneymaking

MoneyTalkPro - money making opportunities and investments online

NetMoneyForum – money making opportunities and investments online

MyCashForum - money making opportunities and investments online

MyFreeMoneyForum – money making opportunities and investments online

NamePros – buy, sell and domain names discussion forum

NetCashCows – online business and internet marketing forum

NetPond – webmaster and web administration forum

OZZU – webmaster and web administration forum

PinoyBusiness.org – Global Filipino entrepreneurs’ forum

PinoyMoneyTalk – Philippines’ online resource on money matters

Powelly – online money making forum

RedFlagDeals – freebies and hot deals forum based in Canada

RevenueSource – affiliate marketing and SEO forum

RollCub – money making opportunities and investments online

SavingAdvice – personal finance forum

SearchEngineForums – search engine optimization techniques

SearchEngineWatchForums - search engines and directories forum

SEOPhilippines - Philippine webmaster and SEO forum

SEOChat – search engine optimization forum

SEO-Guy – search engine optimization forum

SERoundTable – search engine roundtable forum

SiteOwnersForums – webmaster and online moneymaking forum

SitePoint – forum on resources, design, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL and many more

SlickDeals – freebies and hot deals forum

Small-Business-Forum – small to medium business discussion forum

Spoofee – freebies and hot deals forum

TalkFreelance – freelance webmaster, web design & SEO community forum

TalkGold – money making opportunities and investments online

TheAdminZone - resource for owners and administrators of online communities

TheFreeAdForum – free classified ads and articles forum

TheGreenNation - money making opportunities and investments online

TheHYIPForum – money making opportunities and investment online

TheV7Network – webmaster and web development forum

UKBusinessForums – UK forum for owners, managers and entrepreneurs of small businesses and startups

UKWebmasterWorld – UK webmaster and search engine marketing forum

WAHM – forum for money making Moms

WarriorForum – internet marketing forum

WebDesignForums – website development & web design forum, community and help site

WebDeveloper – programming and web development forum

WebForumz – forum for web designers, developers and those who are new and learning

WebHostingTalk – the largest & most influential web hosting community online

Web-Life - money making opportunities and investments online

WebmasterForumsOnline – forum for All Webmaster Forums, SEO Discussion Forums, Internet Marketing Forums, Google, Yahoo and MSN Forums, Web Hosting Forums, Web Design and Advertising Forums

WebMastersHelp – forum where webmasters help each other sharing technical knowledge and info

Webmaster-Talk – web design, coding, SEO forums

WebmasterWorld – news and discussion for the web professional

WebTalkForums – webmaster and web development forum

WhyDoWork – money making opportunities and investments online

WickedFire – affiliate marketing, webmaster & SEO forum

WorldHYIPsForum – money making opportunities and investments online

I’m updating the above list, so if you knew other moneymaking and webmaster forums that are not in the list and want to contribute it please feel free to do so. Simply leave the site or forum URL as a comment below. Thanks.

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This program started on May 23, 2008 and today it’s already 66 days old. Their site info states that it has 5, 038 total accounts, but there were only 3, 811 active accounts and that includes me. A total of $430, 229.34 (and continuously growing daily) representing investments were deposited. Of this amount a total $207, 969.96 was withdrawn to pay investors/members who requested payment.

I don’t know why some people claiming they were scammed by this program. I feel sad for these people. If really that’s true they experienced such thing I’m really, really sorry for them. In HYIP world anything can happen in a short period of time that will caught you off-guard. Past performance of any of programs is no guarantee for the same or similar future performance.

As of this date, I continuously receive payment from this program. My upline and other investors which I always had contact voiced the same thing - they continuously received their payments without delay.

In my simple analysis, maybe these people invested on liberty reserve. Usually, this currency pays instantly faster that any currencies used and accepted by the program. But, for several days in the past LR website is downed as they were undergoing server maintenance. And I experienced that too as I can’t make deposit with my newly joined programs. And because they can’t withdraw their earnings for several days, so they claimed they were scammed, but were not. Now LR is back and I don’t heard cries anymore.

For me, Golden Invest is still a good program to invest with nowadays.

If anyone is still interested joining this program you may click the banner below.

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Not a long time ago, I posted here about HYIP…how to earn and win about this program. But before making a journey to the very challenging world of HYIP you must understand and follow some rules to make your journey a profitable one. So, here I post some rules or guide to follow.

Actually, when it comes to investing in HYIPs, there are three rules that I follow…my self-imposed rules: (1) if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, (2) never invest what you cannot afford to lose, and (3) do not reinvest. The third is what I always broke, especially if the HYIP is legit and the owner or company is very trusted and tested.

Plan Long-Term

Never ever dream or plan to get rich within a very short period of time, get rich quick schemes just don’t work. The good HYIP investment programs will pay consistently and reliably, I will not give any examples, because that is your job to find them out. I recommend being in programs for at least 6 months- 1 year, that way you can make consistent profits, if you try short term HYIPs, you will be stressed out and possibly loose all your funds.

Get Ready to Loose

“Prepare for the worst, hope for the best”. Losses will occur every once in a while. It is a fact of life. If you are prepared, you won’t be caught when you are weak, and it will only serve as a learning curve, a greater vigilance to these things, and serve to make you stronger, you can learn a lot of things from other people, but learning from mistakes I believe is the most effective way. There are many ways to fail, and each loss represents less ways left to learn from.

Don’t Quit!

Winners don't quit. Read and study all that is available, if this means reading every forum and blog word for word then so be it. Knowledge is power, and if you fail you will learn new ways, make many plans and attack them, find weaknesses in these plans, you will not loose the next time because you can't. However if you quit then you will never know what would have happened and you may regret that choice.

Diversify Your Investment

This is extremely important, Never put all your eggs into one basket. You should invest in as many programs you feel are legal and not a scam. I find this quite difficult and there is only a handful of legit programs out there. I would aim to have around 5 good programs to invest in, if one program was to scam or have major losses, you will still have the other 4, however if you just invested in one, then you've lost everything. Try to spread your funds evenly as you can, there is no point in having a small amount in a program and most in one. place slightly more in programs where you feel more comfortable in, and slightly less in those your not completely sure about.

Get back your principal

This is optional, you may get part of you initial amount back as soon as possible or at a certain time, a lot of programs have time lock periods where your initial is locked. I usually let my entire amount compound during the lock period if I trust the program, and withdraw when it is unlocked, this period is about 6-12months usually. I occasionally take out lump sums to add to my reserves without damaging my interest too much. Compounding is EXTREMELY powerful and can turn your money into much larger amounts, strategies can be developed to deal with this, for example, 3 months allow to compound, withdrawal 3 months interest and then allow to compound 3 months, etc.. or withdrawal every other month. you should adjust this to your targets, but don't get greedy! you will end up learning a valuable lesson when you loose!

Research, Research and more Research

Well it depends how much you are investing, therefore determining how much time you spend tracking them down etc. some things like managed accounts confirm that they cannot scam you, but they can also be amateur traders etc.. I advice you do a domain whois, call them, pull up records, police and finance. check if they supply correct info. Check trading history, qualifications, age, sex, profile, and experience, Are they telling the truth! Don't just check them out, check out their family, usually when you cant find their family, they don't exist by that name. Track their friends address, get pictures etc. For example I would do all of this if I was to invest a huge amount into GI for example. Keep all sensitive info to yourself, if worst comes to worst you may be able to recover your money, or bring them to justice if they were fraudulent.

Be Very Skeptical

Usually if its too good to be true it is, do some research! Any program that pays more than 15% monthly, should be dealt with very carefully. Remember there are lots and lots of scammers out there so you need to be very skeptical of any program younger then 6-12 months. Never join any unoriginal scripts and ones who have Ref commissions. Ideally a good program would. pay 5-10% monthly, be private, (invite only), have unique script, not have any referral commission, and not advertise itself heavily, it would also provide proof of trading and names/addresses of principals and be a registered company, (this by itself is meaningless). Contact telephone should work also.

Watch Out for Red Flags

There are many things to look out for, for example, a ponzi wants more and more members, if it seems to make offers and bonuses and referral competitions, then it is surely a ponzi, and a scam. if you believe traders are not trading good, i.e. increasing risk to get themselves out of a negative result, or not supplying truthful information. Any research that proves any bit of evidence to suggest it is not legal as you thought or links to other organizations known to scam.

Avoid Greed

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception, as Sun Tzu put it best, “The wise general cannot be manipulated”. To avoid being deceived, we need to be continually improving our individual and corporate strengths and weaknesses. The issues to be addressed in this regard include; our emotions — ego, hope, fear, and, greed. I have seen many people defeat themselves, by the weakness in their own mind and I can see their flaws. I cannot tell you how to fix this, I can only tell you that you must. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” You may know the program, but do you know yourself, you lie and trick yourself into believing their lies, you yourself will come up for a perfect explanation to how they make their money if you want to. If you master yourself you will be able to defend from this.

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Well, how can really one win in HYIP?

I’ve been a member of around 20 forums on the net, and guess what? All these forums I’ve joined the section that was so busy is HYIP Discussion section. Yes, lots of members are concentrating in that section exchanging pleasantries on their escapade on programs they have joined. Some grieves as they were scammed by programs that they thought would bring fortunes overnight – invested huge amount expecting that would triple the next day. As I’ve said in my previous post that in HYIP anything can happen in a short period of time that will catch you off-guard. I’m also a loser before, but now no more because I’ve already learned my lessons. I’m not earning well, but I’m not losing. I only spent small amount and thinking as if I’m gambling.

As I was browsing the net, I’ve encountered something nice about HYIP…techniques on how to win in HYIP. So far, I think this one is the best to follow when investing on a risky program such as HYIP.

DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET:

Diversify a little money into a lot of areas so if one venture goes sour you still have the others intact to produce income. Some will go sour! If you don't enter this arena intending to fund many different things overall before you are done; you shouldn't be playing here at all - you will get burned. Funding two to three things with large amounts is suicide; just like it is in the stock market. Focus on the overall plan; not on a program or two.

Build your program list up to no less than twenty, it may take time but this is the proper way. Do not, I repeat, do NOT, lay your faith on a single program or two. It will destroy you and make you bitter and blind in this arena. Always lay your faith on the "big plan" not on a program, this is where the market splits into two groups of people, one ruled by broken faith the other group led by laying their faith on "the plan" and not on a program. If you lay your faith, hope or belief on a program and it does not work, this intangible decision you have made with your will leads to destruction of your attitude, finances, personal well being and your sense of fairness. If your faith is destroyed or damaged you will lay a damaged faith on the next program you look at, or a damaged belief or a damaged hope and you will not find your way to investing with a good feeling and you will start missing the programs that pay. If this is the case, when a program messes up, you can see why some turn bitter. I like to say to my members, if it is on your mind and it is starting to bug you, it is time to move on to another program. If you want a good attitude and lots of success, get your mind off the investments you're in and get focused on your plan.

"The Plan" is to eventually fund 20 plus programs, and as soon as some pay out widen your programs to up to 30 or more. Your faith in "the plan" then matures and grows stronger as the overall financial picture, including wins and losses, balances and produces and positive cash flow. The programs themselves individually are not the focus except to try and do as much due diligence as possible so you enter the best 20 that are paying and have the longest track records. It's too easy to want to put ten or twenty grand into a couple programs and be done with it; but it is much safer to fund $500 to a grand in twenty different programs that are considered the best programs. Then when one or two fail; it's no big deal. Concentrate on the "plan" not the "programs".

Nice plan, really. But one thing I don’t like here is the number of programs to join, 20 to 30+ are too tiresome or hard to manage aside from the big amount of capital involved. I can go for 10 programs only - easy to handle or managed...the capital involved is a bit less and let’s say “it’s the amount I can afford to lose”.

Thank you for visiting and happy investing.

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How and when to invest. It is because, HYIP like other form of risk investments such as Forex, stocks and legal gambling also associated with extremely high risk. I have some rules posted on my other blog that explains trading on HYIP. But, what's HYIP anyway?

For a newbie on this word or world, HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Program that is offered on the internet through investment website.

The newer type of high yield investment program involves smaller amounts of money. Most of these programs claim to pay out 1-10% a day, or even up to 100% per month. Many of these programs are scams, but some may actually be legit.

The early Internet HYIP programs usually involved day trading on the stock market, on futures, or in foreign exchange. An investor could pay as little as $20 to the program, and would start earning a percent or two each working day. You could withdraw your gains at any time, though, by leaving the money in, compounding would cause your investment would grow, thus increasing your pay outs.

Experienced day traders can and do make anywhere from 1-20% each day -- normally averaging (after bad trades and losses) 2% each day. The money paid into a HYIP program would be pooled together, and invested by the day (or technical) trader. Using 50% margins, where the investment broker loans the trader an amount equal to the amount he's investing, the trader could pay out the 1% or so each day to the HYIP investors, and still make money for himself. According to some books on day trading, good traders are right 80% of the time, and should never lose more than 3% of their investment on the bad (or wrong) trades. This type of HYIP is sustainable and not a scam. However, as a potential HYIP investor, you have no way of knowing if the program you're interested in is legitimate, or is a take the money and run type of scam.

Soon, other types of HYIPs appeared. Some were based on the selling of ebooks and software. Once again, money invested in the HYIP was pooled and spent on advertising for selling ebooks and other downloadable products. If a business knows that for every $100 it spends in advertising, it will earn $300 in revenue, then it can pay out 50% or so a month on the HYIP program, because it knows with a reasonable degree of certainty that it will get the original $100 back, plus make a pre-tax profit of $200. Such a business would want to maximize the amount of money available for advertising, in order to maximize the amount of profits it can earn each month. In essence, they have borrowed money from individual HYIP investors (at an exorbitant interest rate) to make large profits as quickly as possible. This scheme works, but there's an upper limit on how long it can be sustained, and how much money can be spent on advertising. Sooner or later, the market for the products is saturated, and the returns on the advertising will decline sharply. At that point in time, the business can no longer pay out the 50% per month as promised, and the HYIP would have to be shut down.

The Forex type of HYIP is similar to the day trading type. Instead of buying and selling shares on the stock market, the traders buy and sell currencies and currency futures. They claim to have systems that guarantee success, but I'm not convinced that such systems exist. The Forex HYIPs can (and do) offer higher rates of return because most Forex operations are margined up to 90% - not just 50%. That means a 1% gain on the trade is worth 10% of the initial investment. The returns are higher, but the risks, despite the claims, are higher too.

Other HYIPs are dubious, and should be regarded with suspicion. Some claim to be "gold games", whatever that means, while some are really nothing more than bets. One HYIP that I looked into promised 80% gains a day. It wasn't an investment program -- your $20 returned $36 IF the transaction number ended with either an even or an odd digit. On even numbered days, an even numbered transaction number would "earn" 80% of the "investment" plus the original sum. If the transaction number was odd on an even numbered day, then your "investment" went bust and you got nothing. Statistically, over a period of time, the "successful investments" (wins) and the "failed investments" (losses) would even out. Since the pay outs were only 80%, over the long term, the organizer of this scam was guaranteed to earn 20% of the money anyone foolish enough to participate would send him. This "program" is undoubted illegal. I'm not sure if it's still going on or not. If so, stay away.

If you are considering on making an investment in a HYIP be certain to do diligent research first. Any legitimate security that is sold to the public must be registered with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). If the HYIP you are considering is not registered, you should not invest. Other questions to ask yourself include, whether the claims to good to be true, and how the people running the program generate the high yield returns that you are being promised. You should be careful of the claims people make regarding some secret network or principle that allows them to make excessive returns. If the proponents of the HYIP cannot or will not explain how the returns are made then you may want to avoid investing in the program.

To summarize, any HYIP program that involves offshore banks or investment groups, secret rules, unusually high interest rates, tax shelters, etc., should be avoided at all costs. Don't get involved with them in any way. Online HYIPs MAY be legitimate, but probably aren't. Remember the two rules we talked about at the top of this page: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and, Never invest more money than you can afford to lose. If you want to try an online HYIP, investigate first. Put the minimum amount in and see what happens over a period of 3-6 months. If the pay outs are consistent and on time, then maybe you have found a legitimate HYIP. Take the money and run scammers tend to close up shop within 6 months or so, when the money coming in tails off and the demands for late pay outs increase.

Good luck in your investing, and be very careful...invest only what you can afford to lose. And find out what is legit and what isn't before committing to any HYIP program.

Sources: mirroreyes and other HYIP sources

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