Best way to search for forums

whats the best way to search for forums?
lets say Im looking for a running forum. does search for "forum + running" work? how about "forum:running"? or will "running forum" do the job? thanks.

 

There are different ways and each person has their own. Try "running" "forum"

 

Maybe this will help. Here is a list of forum directories.

 

try things like these in Google:


inurl:/forums/ Subject

inurl:/forum/ Subject

intitle:forum Subject

subject intitle:disussion board

etc.

Google Advanced Operators are your friend!

-kpaul

 

it will be better to use different search queries and use 'allintitle' and 'allinurl' instead of 'inurl' and 'intitle'

You should search for queries like

allinurl:forum running
allinurl:community running

allintitle:forum running
allintitle:community running

and other related keywords.

 

cool these things work

 

also be careful, there are lots of sites like my own which use the domain name as the forum. or where the forum is a subdomain. (alot of the times these sites are bigger than those as a simple subdomain.

If your looking for a search engine of the biggest forums around (Min 500k posts). Try http://www.big-boards.com

 

thx a lot guys.

 

also try http://www.boardtracker.com/

 

Best forums are those which have DO Follow options.

 

i agree with you yours is suggest is well about search forums.