Re: Google Rankings

Posted by GregHBBR on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Google-Rankings-tp4025538p4025563.html

adminHBBR wrote

I don't have time to maintain the static Wordpress site

Oops! Hope I didn't step on toes. I had thought that was someone else's who'd left the fold.

the Nabble site is dynamic and the content grows with the membership, which significantly reduces maintenance work.

And, for me, the important feature is that even the less computer-skilled folk amongst us seem to be able to post to the forum or use their normal email program and participate.

Does anyone remember the http://ukhbbr.blogspot.co.uk/ I prototyped? It's a Google blog with the forum embedded. I think it went down like a lead balloon at the time, but ironically it works just like Greg's wrapper...how times change

Don't do yourself down, No one's actually said they like "Greg's Wrapper" yet!

The Google blog offers a simple "shop window" to the world and several of us have created and maintained our own Google blogs

I recall that at the time that was supposed to be the appeal of blogspot over WordPress. More of our users were familiar with it, so more people might be available to help maintain it.

However, perhaps it is that both those technologies started as blogging platforms and are designed to give prominence to the latest post or the way that the samples were set up and didn't show enough of the "advertising" possibilities that Simon (and I) see is the purpose of the second (perhaps integrated) site, or that we had just gone through a technical argument on whether to drop Yahoo. Whatever the reason, we had a silent majority that didn't express a view on what for them was presumably a peripheral issue to boat building, and left it to the technocrats to do something - and we did nothing.

My father's funeral is on Tuesday, so I won't have time to devote to putting together, those draft "advertising wrapper" pages I spoke of till later next week, but if that is the route that's chosen to go, I should be able to put something soon after that.