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All too often, forums are exactly just that – forums. Besides the message boards and the members messaging features, there’s nothing else to see on the website. That’d be the case if you were at a forum other than NetBuilders.org. Will Spencer’s forum for webmasters is unique because it has gone beyond a mere forum; with all its unique features, it’s more of a community than just a bunch of people posting.

That isn’t to say that NetBuilders.org isn’t a great webmasters forum. Quite far from it, the site has thousands of members talking about all sorts of niches. Instead of merely posting, members can use the website’s chat feature – an unorthodox addition for a forum – to have more personal, one-on-one conversations.

A Fair Marketplace

NetBuilders.org has gone way beyond being just a venue for webmasters to talk. There’s a marketplace section where other users post a whole gamut of webmaster-related services and goods. It’s practically a one-stop shop for any webmaster. And because of the way the site is built, it’s the perfect place to do business. The guy who explained domain hosting to you last week could now be offering you a cheap deal. And because everyone sees the marketplace, scams and unfair offers aren’t secret for long.

It’s probably this knack for new and useful features that helped Spencer achieve his success. He’s now known as one of the most successful webmasters on the Internet, famous for earning over $70,000 in a single month from online advertising as well as one of the forum’s friendly faces.

Latest ad feature – Easy Online Exposure

The site also has a spot – the ad feature – for those looking to sell instead of buy. Although it’s fairly new, many users are already on the NetBuilders.org ad feature program. It has relatively stringent rules on taking in ads, but that’s only resulted in getting even better and more relevant postings on the site.

One cool thing about the NetBuilders.org ad feature is that the tenure and the contributions of the user to the community are directly proportional to the number of times the ad is displayed: the more posts the user has, the more his or her ads get shown in the ad feature. So when there are ads that you see a lot of on the site, they probably belong to long-time, trustworthy members.

Chat Room - More than just chit-chat

Unlike most other forums, NetBuilders.org isn’t limited to just text posts. The site has its own chat feature – yes, you read that right – that lets you to talk with other users in real-time. Whether you want to get a panel discussion on Internet marketing or trying to get support for services you bought on the marketplace, you can’t deny that it’s a really nifty feature to have.

Smart Discussions in Various Sections

Another thing you can look forward to on NetBuilders.org is the sheer breadth of knowledge there. The forum is the hub for thousands of webmasters, domain owners and Internet marketers. Whatever you want to find out about practically any aspect of web administration and online marketing, you’ll likely find it on NetBuilders.org.

The Hot Highlight!

Spencer’s newest brainchild is the forum’s own SEO contest, Sulumits Retsambew. In just a few weeks, Sulumits Retsambew had become the major SEO contest that everybody wanted to win; by May, just two months after the debut of the site’s SEO contest, almost half a million entries had already been generated. Yes, Sulumits Retsambew is a big deal.

It’s probably because the prizes are no joke. With the top plum at $1,000, this isn’t just some itty-bitty SEO contest; there’s some serious cash at stake. Besides, the NetBuilders.org community is the active type that really gets into any activity like this.

I’ve personally seen very few sites work to the same depth and extent that NetBuilders.org does. The site’s unique features give every webmaster all the necessary weapons for success, and then some.