Re: Google Rankings

Posted by GregHBBR on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Google-Rankings-tp4025538p4025565.html

Simon is absolutely right that in the ideal world we would have a shop window for the "world" to see and somewhere where the "members" can chat.

I don't see anyone here arguing for anything different.

If these can be combined, so much the better.

Simon didn't make a statement on that, but I'd agree.

The main problem with our shop window is not the underlying technology it is the information management (how many times have I said that?).  Unless we are prepared to keep the content up to date and fresh it will always end up like the site we have now, irrespective of the technology that supports it.

Here we may differ, but perhaps I misunderstand what you see as the advertising message. For me the message is static and does not change. It's exactly the same as it was when Alec Jordan paid for the original domain and is "This is the place to discuss home built boats". (I'll happily accept some variation of that!)

The issue is, how do people find us? As a web-based group that will be either by following a link from some other site or via a search engine. We haven't got too much control over those who link to us so the answer is in finding terms that people who might find our group of interest and placing them in the right places on a web site that includes our forum. Leaving aside the development of some dramatic new material that is suitable for boat building, the terms that people might use when our group might be a good result for them are much the same as they would have been twenty years ago, if not fifty. That is why there is no need for complex wiki, blog or CMS technologies, where all those with the technical skills have their favourite software or service provider.

I really don't mind too much what the technical solution is but I do think it is critical that we have something that allows anyone with the inclination to do so to add and edit content without being an IT expert.

I think that suggestion is the very reason why it all fell over last time. We couldn't agree on a technical solution to achieve that. However, if we accept that the basic advertising message does NOT change, then some simple static pages will do the job. On the rare occasions that the advertising message needs to be changed, then should the original "wrapper" no longer be accessible, then it would be a very simple matter to copy the existing material, edit it, and host it somewhere else. To insure against that I am quite happy to share the access details of the ukhbbr.plus.com domain with one or two others in case I drop dead suddenly.