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Finally after a long 33 days, The Webmaster Talk contest is coming to an end. I know I’ve been blabbing a lot about this one, but this is a huge contest with $25,000 in prizes going to 5 fortunate winners. That’s right 5 winners will each get $5,000 in prizes including a sweet MacBook air and some other killer prizes including:

$750 in cash combined from MaxBounty and Pepperjam Network
24 custom T-Shirts
An Apple iPod Touch from Rocket Profit
A Professional Shopping Cart Solution from Interspire
The Flip camera from Advaliant
The complete multi-pack of the Revolution Theme
$500 in gift certificates to Text Link Ads
A Nintendo DS Lite
3 Months Of free training in Aaron Wall’s SEOBook
and I think that’s it.

The contest has been based on a points system and the top 5 people with the most points totaled each win one of the $5,000 prize packages. If you have already entered the contest and want to earn a few more points before it ends tomorrow night at midnight, then check out the full rules here.

In the mean time you can get a ton of great information at Webmaster-Talk.com forums including help on CSS, HTML, PHP, website design, directories, making money online, blogging and a whole host of other topics. There are more than 50,000 members registered at Webmaster Talk and more than 130,000 threads. It’s definitely no fly by night forum and worth joining in on the discussion, even if you aren’t into contests.

You can join Webaster Talk forums here.

If you’d like to have a chance to win one of 5 great prize packages that include a Macbook Air and are valued at $5,000 each, you have just under 7 days to do so. Webmaster Talk has recently merged with the Earners Forum and is offering some great prizes besides the MacBook Air such as:

A Flip Camera
An Apple iPod Touch
$500 cash from MaxBounty
$250 cash from Pepperjam Network
24 Free T-Shirts from Ndesigns
The cool revolution blog theme
A professional shopping cart from Interspire
3 Months of Aaron Wall’s SEO training

and much more.

This is one of the best contests I’ve ever seen on the net and if you want to win one of these great prizes, you better get on it. The end of the contest is May 13th at midnight and all entries must be submitted to Webmaster Talk by May 16th at 12 noon. There are a variety of things you have to do to earn points that go towards you winning one of the prize packages. You can get all the details of the contest by reading all the rules here.

The number one rule to enter the contest is to be a member of Webmaster Talk forums and you can join right here. Even if you aren’t interested in the contest, you should certainly be interested in Webmaster Talk because they are about as extensive as any forums I’ve ever been a part of. For the online marketer or someone wanting to learn how to build a web site they are a great repository of information, tips, tricks, Photoshop advice, CSS advice, affiliate marketing advice and lots more. With over 58,000 members, there is probably someone there that can answer any question you have.

Of course you can always offer your expertise in the forums as well and that’s always a good way for people to get to know you and trust you. And trust helps you build your brand and will ultimately make your business more successful. So head on over to Webmaster Talk forums and don’t forget to check out the contest.

If you want to get in on one of the biggest contests going on right now, you have only 10 more days left to do so. Webmaster Talk has merged with EarnersForum.com and is giving away some pretty incredible prizes to 5 lucky people. And one of those prizes in each of the 5 $5,000 prize stashes will be a MacBook Air, so you definitely don’t want to miss this one. 

This is probably one of the most serious prize give-aways I’ve seen since I’ve been blogging and besides the Macbook Air there are other great prizes including:

Interspire Shopping Cart
3 month membership in Aaron Wall’s Seo Training
A Flip Camera
A cool iPod Touch
Nintendo DS Lite
Cash from various affiliate networks
A gift certificate to Text Link Ads
and a few more gems

The contest ends on May 13 at midnight and all entries must be submitted by May 16th. You of course, must be a member of Webmaster Talk forums to enter the contest, but you get 10 points for doing so. I’ve learned a ton of stuff in forums including everything from design problems, to getting help figuring out PPC campaigns, to Adsense optimization techniques to general newsy items about web marketing and more.

And since I’ve been perusing WebMaster Talk, it is one of the best ones out there with some 57,000 members and more than 130,000 threads. I’m sure you can find the answers to your most perplexing webmaster, graphics and affiliate marketing questions with that kind of participation, so check it out.

Read the full rules of the contest here and join the Webmaster Talk forums here.

Want to get some free traffic to your blog or web site and actually have people take a good look at it? I know you’ve seen the cheesy, get 25,000 visitors to your site for $29.95 scam deals, but this is a way to get real visitors to review your site and give you pointers on what you can do to improve it and make it better. No, you won’t get tens of thousands of visitors with these reviews, but you will get real opinions from real people.

If you head over to Webmaster Talk forums you can get your blog and or web site reviewed for free, but there are some rules. You can’t just hop over there, sign up and start spamming the forums with your blog or site urls, you have to participate and add value to the forums first by reviewing 3 blogs before you can submit your own.

You can also get your web site reviewed for free as well, and you also have to review 3 web sites  before asking for your own web site to be reviewed. You can’t do 1 blog review and 2 website reviews and then submit your own blog and web site. You must review 3 of each before submitting your own. Preferably you should look for threads and review those sites or blogs that haven’t been looked at yet or had a response to. That’s not always possible, but be on the look out for empty, non-responded threads.

Oh, and no lame, “Cool site” or “Like the colors” type responses. Please add value to the forum and review a site as you would expect to get yours reviewed.

You can join Webmaster Talk forums here.

Probably one of the better places to learn about how to operate a business online is by getting involved in the major forums. It’s a great way to meet people involved in like minded niches and interests that you may have and to pick their brains on a vast array of subjects ranging from how to make money online, to how to design and code your website, to SEO, to web hosting and the list of subjects goes on.

There are plenty of forums around and you can get overwhelmed with being too involved in them instead of working on your sites. However, I’ve discovered one lately that I really like and will be using on a regular basis. Webmaster-Talk.com is another forum that I didn’t even know about until just a week ago or so. Somehow I keep missing sites like this with tons of active members and lots of valuable information, but you shouldn’t miss this one.

No matter what you do online, if it involves putting together web sites or making money, Webmaster Talk has a thread about it. Their main sections include:

Coding Talk
Web Design and Graphics
Web Administration
Websites and Search Engines
Internet Marketing and Business
Making Money Online
Marketplace
Community Talk
and more.

Of course each section has multiple sub-sections and covers nearly any topic you can think of. And with more than 56,000 members and 129,000 threads, there’s a huge repository of information there. You will also want to add to the conversation to return the favor and pay it forward when you get a nice tip on something you’ve been trying to figure out.

I like to use forums to learn what other people are doing to succeed online and to carry on short conversations directly involved in the niche I’m interested in. What I don’t use forums for is just to carry on long involved conversations that don’t in the end matter to either helping someone succeed or learning something I didn’t already know. If you want to succeed online, you have to be careful that you aren’t wasting time with unproductive bantering just to be “involved.”

Webmaster-Talk.com can certainly help you learn the ins and outs of succeeding online. Also, check out their contest while you are there for your chance to win some of the $25,000 worth of prizes being given away.

You can join Webmaster Talk here.