Re: Google Rankings

Posted by GregHBBR on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Google-Rankings-tp4025538p4025557.html

Hi Simon,

simplesimon wrote

Peter Nobes wrote:
>I guess the old yahoo site isn't fulfilling any purpose except keeping an archive of photos.  <

NOT TRUE!

Agreed! The function of the Yahoo site is not just as an archive of photographs. It is also an archive of earlier discussions.

I also agree with the main thrust of your post which is that the UK-HBBR needs both an advertising  platform and a members discussion area and both need to be maintained. However, I feel your proposal is flawed...

So, no, don't close the wordpress site - maintain it! Make it a proper shop window.

The trouble is that those involved in the site clearly lost interest in it a couple of years ago and we have no control over them or it. In short, we cannot maintain it. So we need to produce an alternative site for the advertising function.

While it is true that it continues to figure high in search results for "HBBR" (almost entirely because it includes that term both in the Page Title and URL) as others have pointed out, as advertising, it is pretty useless, since the people we are trying to attract won't be be aware of and won't be searching for "HBBR".

Surely, the ideal is to combine advertising and discussion in a single site. Indeed, that was one of the main reasons I proposed the use of Nabble when there began to be complaints about our YahooGroup. It allows the discussion archive to be embedded in the site designed to attract people to it. That's why I say let us ignore the Wordpress site and create a "wrapper" site in which advertising and the forum/mail list archive can be combined.