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Hi all,

I am new here. Can anyone please tell me how to find a travel forum list that are with PR ratings.

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Building on points from , and , here’s a concise, up-to-date workflow to find travel forums and assess their real value today — note that the old public PageRank/toolbar number is no longer a usable signal, so focus on discoverability, relevance and modern authority proxies instead. (searchenginewatch.com)

Start by creating a seed list. Use targeted search-operator queries to surface forum pages and narrow by location or niche, and supplement that list with forum directories to avoid blind spots. Example queries you can paste into a search box:

intitle:"forum" "your destination"
inurl:forum "travel tips" "city name"
"discussion board" "travel" "backpacking"

Directory listings speed this up for travel-specific communities. (ranktracker.com)

Vet each forum before you spend outreach time. Quick checklist: recent activity and moderation, topical fit, whether pages are indexed (use a site: check), and whether links in posts are marked as UGC/nofollow/sponsored (inspect the link's rel attribute). Use multiple third‑party metrics as proxies for authority (for example, trust/flow or authority‑score types) rather than a single vendor number, and cross‑compare results to avoid one‑source bias. Use browser devtools or a simple link audit to confirm link attributes and indexing. (majestic.com)

Play safe: avoid buying links or participating in obvious link schemes — Google’s spam guidance treats manipulative link practices as risky. Prioritize forums that send real referral traffic and where contributions solve user problems (a single well‑placed, topical referral is usually worth more than many low‑quality backlinks). If has competitor backlink data already, use this process to expand and qualify that seed list, then contact forum owners or participate genuinely rather than mass‑posting. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for PixelatedKarma

Google is your best friend. I see that you are connected with a Car Rental service in Van City. I would highly recommend you begin doing research on your competitor's inbound links and figure out which are high PR/high mR websites. You may want to focus more on the latter as PR seems pretty much dead and there hasn't been an update to publicly visible Google PR since December of last year. Atleast mozRank is updated on a fairly regular basis.

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bc govt
Vancouver Govt
airport
Kijiji (surprised but it has a huge pr)
Check your YP listing
Google webmaster tools, make sure your site is aa1
Google Merchant Center
Google Places
tripadvisor
virtualtourist

at Toronto, Calgary, NY, Seattle every airport that has a direct flight into YVR, get your ad onto the free wifi links

I rent a lot of vehicles and pass through a lot of airports There are ad pages on all the free wifi, I don't want to buy duty free booze, but I would rent a car

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Well, like said Google is your best friend you can always use it to search forums, and what better for you would be is try to learn what your competitors are doing and the best way to do that would be sneaking onto your competitors backlinks look where you competitors is building its backlink from and I am sure you can also extract handful of good travel forums.

Member Avatar for ashleydaniel

Thanks for your replies. Actually, i had analyzed my competitors site. But Dont know whether are using Forum posting or any other to gain inbound links. What are the ways to analyse them? Please help me to improve my site's PR.

Member Avatar for PixelatedKarma

You could use a free tool like opensiteexplorer. It should show you what links it sees on a site. There are many many other better tools for link analysis out there but the best ones I found personnally are some of the premium versions of downloadable tools. They will pull alot of links for you and then part of the fun is figuring out what each site is (forum, blog, etc.) and how they got the link.

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

well there are a number of tools available over the web which can help you with it, you can try using ahrefs tool it gives a better insight of your competitor backlinks. I am using the same to analayse competitors backlinks so you can try it out !

Member Avatar for ashleydaniel

Hey.. Thanks alot..:) will try and inform you both soon.

Member Avatar for harry1213

I have recently started learning SEO and I am exploring different ways to build backlinks, especially through Forums. Your discussion about Travel Forum is very helpful for beginners like me who want to understand how to find quality platforms. I believe participating in active Travel Forum discussions not only helps in SEO but also improves knowledge about the niche. It is important to choose Forums that have real engagement and good authority so that the backlinks are effective and safe. If anyone has a good Travel Forum list, please share it here.

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