How to find forums?

[Floccer]

Anyone have tips how i could find forums or twitter like pages where i could promote my site?

I have tried different kind of search terms like
forums + keyword

inurl:forum + keyword​

And some other variations but i'm still not finding really as much as i would want.

 

[poliku]

There are a lot of forum footprints . See here :

blackhatworld .com/seo/scrapebox-forums-footprints-needed.1171824

 

[perocJ]

Here’s how to find them:

[keyword] forum
[keyword] + board
[keyword] + community

Or just search for relevant subreddits on Reddit.

 

[Floccer]

Thanks for suggestions. Will need to go thru them at some point. Subreddits are not really good except my own maybe. I have script that will send premade message to threads that i have started. Just to send update/bump on those

 

[Floccer]

As i happened to start coding in long time i managed to get working scraper and with help from scraperapi .com i can do 5000 searches for free. No other proxies needed. Just python + scrapy. After finding some initial footprints and keywords i can now get hunders or thousends of link in minutes. Now i just need to check if my links are any good for use

 

[Floccer]

So as i initially used different footprints and keywords i didn't find many forums at all. Out of 3600 links i got about 200 links that was really a forum. But as i cleaned my list i now got little better refined footprints that i'm currently using. Here is few that i have.

"Powered by phpBB" inurl:viewtopic -phpbb.com Your keyword
"Community platform by XenForo" inurl:threads -site:xenforo.com Your keyword
"Simple Machines" -site:simplemachines.org forum Your keyword
"Powered by Invision Community" -site:invisioncommunity.com inurl:topic Your keyword
"Forum software by XenForo" -site:xenforo.com inurl:forums Your keyword

inurl = text must be on url. This is important to get rid of non forum sites.
-site = i'm removing the official forum pages from results
Just paste one line to search engine and change "Your keyword" to what you want to find

 

[TashaJ]

If you arent finding them in search then they don't exist. I tried for months last year to find forums for my niche, besides the top 3 or so in Google all the rest were dead.

 

[Floccer]

Eventually i managed to find forums but i got so many blogs, news and some wierd speaking forum sites that are not a forum. Next step is to start profiles on those, make post , add to my posting script so i can send updates and bump threads over all forums

 

[adilasharaf]

i have a better option for you.
use this search operating code - digital Marketing AND inurl:viewtopic threads
Thank you i hope this help you