SEO Chat, www.seochat.com

Its my personal experience that SEO Chat is the most worst forum. I am really confuse that why it is a recognized forum. They have very cheap and arrogant moderators. I felt that their are 4-5 members who are entertaining each other and just pulling legs of other members by their cheap and senseless threads. Even they have their own algorithm for SEO also which is totally against the Google. I am very disappointed by that forum and i request to other members also to make such type of comments. I hope such type of comments will definitely help others not to visit that forum which is full of senseless moderators.

While this was once a great place for SEO advice, (2006), it has become a place for rude behavior with the moderators leading the charge.

As others here have stated, the mods use negative points to bully others, as there is no way to recover from these points.

When others will defend attacks by high ranking members, the friends will be banned.

I personally run and moderate forums in my line of expertise, and the behavior that goes on here would never be allowed in these or any other civil forums.

I even had a high ranking member make personal attacks against my family, with of coarse nothing done but attacks on me for calling out this bully.

Basically this place is like a time machine back to middle school where the kids have no respect for their elders.

In summary, this is a disgusting place that hopefully will fall into the ash heap of failed websites.

Arrogant, unhelpful and a complete waste of time for anyone who wants to learn SEO and pick up any tips from the professionals. I can't actually believe some of the comments that have been made by some of the regulars in this forum. I think they just must be very sad, lonely people and I dont understand why the forum mods stand by them. Surely they want lots of people to use this as a resource so that people click on their ads etc. I would have thought that one of the basic lessons of SEO is to not drive your audience away, which is precisely what this forum does.

A total waste of time and it's really slow. I have learnt nothing here.

Initially i thought it was a pretty good Forum, however, after using it for a while there seems to be a definite divide with the "elite" and "new users".

This forum is ran on a reputation system, rep points get awarded by these "Elite Users" and the mods. If you write something they "disagree" with they slap you down for it and give you reputation penalties.

I was given -216 rep point penalty for what I saw as a legitimate and acceptable solution to a problem one of the other new users posted. The Mod never gave me a reason for taking my rep points away!!!

Rep points are very difficult to earn on this forum, due to the mod's being very "clicky".

Now my account has a little flag saying "Likely to be a spammer, and a traitor to the cause" All because this one moderator didn't agree with one comment I made. I find this very annoying as I am not a spammer, I work as a professional SEO consultant.

AVOID THIS FORUM AT ALL COSTS!! Stick to the more reputable forums, SEOmoz etc..

This is my favorite site for SEO tips and tricks. I share a lot of information on it as well. Search for GaryTheScubaGuy.

I have a couple of great posts in there like link building 101, Top 12 SEO Tips for 2009, 2008, 2009, 2010.

If you have any SEO related issues or question I recommend checking SEO CHAT out.

There are also some indespensible tools.

Jumped in to answer a question from a Google Alert and got slammed by a vet of the SEO Chat forum for trying to advertise. Very rude and disrespectful community. I won't be back. Better off sticking to SEOMoz.org and patronizes popular SEO blogs. There's also some great content on YouTube (see user GoogleWebmasterHelp).