Roof Cleaning Pros

[Beth n Rod]

What would the point in that be Ron? Either a forum is or is not open to being crawled by the engines. If it is, then organic text will do all you need it to, but spamming does nothing for the quality of the content.

Beth

[Ron Musgraves]

What would the point in that be Ron? Either a forum is or is not open to being crawled by the engines. If it is, then organic text will do all you need it to, but spamming does nothing for the quality of the content.

Beth

Its could be a member only benifit, a forum dedicated to highlight members only to the general public. Its could be a real benifit for members only!!!

The link deal could have been just a member benifit, if the BBS doesnt separate them from other BBS then we could just say what is the point?

[Thad.]

Its could be a member only benifit, a forum dedicated to highlight members only to the general public. Its could be a real benifit for members only!!!

The link deal could have been just a member benifit, if the BBS doesnt separate them from other BBS then we could just say what is the point?

I suggested that a couple of weeks ago. No go.

[Russ Spence]

yeah but you suggested it not Ron, thats the difference, Ron is bigger than you.

[Ron Musgraves]

Ok no JOKES

yeah but you suggested it not Ron, thats the difference, Ron is bigger than you.

[welder]

I suggested that a couple of weeks ago. No go.

That would be a great benefit, I personally don't post a lot just to have my link "crawled" or what ever it is that happens. BUT, if it is a benefit to do that, just allow members to have that benefit. They pay for it, Non members get enough benies just reading the info on here. My .02 worth.

[Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa]

I agree with the "paid members only" benefit, and then putting a sensible limit on it, before your forum turns into one big Informercial. I think as long as there is some quality text to go along with a "roof cleaning anytown USA" thread it helps, vs hurts a forum. A generic thread about roof cleaning has a snowballs chance in hell of being returned in the search results. The generic search term "roof cleaning" is way too crowded. Now, if we have a thread about "roof cleaning germantown MD", that thread will generally appear well placed in the search results, assuming the forum it was posted on has any SEO Clout ?

Folks that own and run forums know that it is all about hits! Why limit a forums exposure by restricting your posters ability to keyword a post ? In fact some of our largest and most educational threads at RCIA started out as keyword loaded promotional posts, and grew from there. I would think an org like the UAMCC would want exposure ? What better way to get exposure then to watch a local competitors posts here pop up in the local search results ?

I respect Beth's position on Spam, and we sure don't want that. Perhaps there can be a 1/2 way meeting of the minds on this to allow local keywords in the post titles, while requiring some unique, quality content ?
Something like "This is the first roof we cleaned using our new roof cleaning set up. Our old roof cleaning set up would not allow us to clean a steep roof like this. The algae was especially thick on this roof, and we had to give it two coats of chemicals. In between coats, a neighbor asked us for an estimate" You get the idea I'm sure ?

IOW, something more then an "Attaboy, good work as usual" stuff.
UAMCC has members, and so do we at RCIA.
We must give our members something, so how about some exposure ?
Remember, every time the UAMCC members get exposure off this forum, so does the UAMCC !
LOL, I remember one of the local Tampa guys posting on another forum. The minute his thread hit the local Tampa search results, we had 1/2 of Tampa posting over there, including ME.

[Doug Rucker]

Great idea....and nice work