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Yes, that should mean some extra traffic and maybe some new members - people we've not even met before .

Do you think we will attract some women?

I think plural is a bit optimistic.

Derek,
you've posted a picture of you as a Skinhead, you've got a dark satanic tree as your avatar and your desperate for women!!!
Its not the method Brad Pitt uses.

Alan

Haven't you seen 12 Monkeys?

Conky wrote:Derek,
you've posted a picture of you as a Skinhead, you've got a dark satanic tree as your avatar and your desperate for women!!!
Its not the method Brad Pitt uses.

Alan

Brad Pitt doesn't have my charm, wit and personality and, IMHO, is a bit on the skinny side. Jo often tells me she would rather have me than Brad Pitt, and I for one believe her

Derek

....and it's only you who thinks it's a tree

It must make you proud to think you have a son who will be able to communicate with Luc on his level!
Make sure he keeps up with his French lessons at school.

And while I'm on, something tells me the picture Luc posts of himself is not going to be as straight forward as we hoped!

Great news about Google.

Alan

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=152#152]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:TPF is now listed in The Open Directory Project (though might take a few hours to appear). When google next takes a copy of the ODP’s free data it will appear in the Google directory. Both of these will help the search engine rankings.

I’m taking credit for that good news.

Of course self praise is no praise....but sod it! Well done Julian.

Alan

Don't forget that Treacle was the one that submitted it.

Fairy Snuff! (this could go on a bit)

Thanks to Treacle and Jdaw1 !!!


I hope this isn't like the Monty Python sketch 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

...and don't forget who confirmed all of those search engine submissions...

I will refer the Honourable Gentlemen to the answer I gave some moments ago!

With acknowledgements to Hansard.

Actually Treacle has frequently had work published in Hansard, but I did all the confirmations. She ran a process and I got a bloody great pile of e-mails to respond to.

I have heard of strategies that you can adopt which ensure your website is returned at the top of the list on google etc when someone searches for key words and phrases. Is this something we could do?

Derek

There are a variety of things.

Somewhere phpBB might allows settings for the HTML meta tags where the ellipses should be set to the title of the thread, the first 180 characters of the first post, and the name of the thread (details).


Also, we want incoming links. Do you have personal websites? Do they have a link to a post within TPF? (Mine does.) Incoming links are the best.


Lastly, and best of all, it to have lots of content that seems ‘genuine’ to google’s secret algorithm. This we’re doing the natural way.

There are some dodgy methods but if the Google bods work it out (which they will) they will remove the site. Best off doing what we're doing and, as JDAW says, get one way links to the site.

jdaw1 wrote:Somewhere phpBB might allows settings for the HTML meta tags

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<title>…</title>
<meta content="…" name=description>
<meta content="…" name=keywords>

where the ellipses should be set to the title of the thread, the first 180 characters of the first post, and the name of the thread (details).

KillerB wrote:There are some dodgy methods

Fixing the meta tags to have descriptions and keywords isn’t dodgy. It’s recommended HTML practice.

Killer B's location, The Sky Blue City, reminds me of the time I decided to check out Coventry Citys New Ground the Ricoh Arena for a game. I knew I was close and it was just about kick off time. I asked a local for final directions. The bloke said it was only a bit down the road and then a left. He also said that when I got there, I'd see TWO queues of people, a Big one and a small one. He advised me not to join the Big one, as that was for the Chippy!

Alan

I wasn't talking about that jdaw, I was talking about repetitive hidden keywords, unrelated keywords, stolen content etc. Our submitted keywords are all related to Port and wine.

Reading back it does look like I was referring to your recommendation but I wasn't I was expanding on what could be done.

Treacle has some Google Ads vouchers which should get us pumped up a bit, she's also going to check where we can put meta tags as it's not in the Admin panel.

OK, we’re agreed. We do (or have already done) the cheap kosher things, and then let nature take its course.

Agreed.

Oh and send e-mails to everyone.

KillerB wrote:send e-mails to everyone.

Where “everyone† means “everyone we actually know†, rather than everyone.

You lost me at Meta Tags but you seem to have it in hand

.....and this my 200th post

Well done my old Windbag. Now remember at 222....Nelson!

Do I have to wear a patch on my eye?

Are you starting to like your port level now, Derek?

How much of this thread should be heaved overboard to Meaningless Drivel? (Clue: “none† is not the correct answer.)

Yes, QdN LBV is definately a cut above anything I've seen so far.

I think the remainder of the list should remain a mystery until someone hits the relevant target

I wonder if we will hit the 1,000 posts before the end of our 1st week? What time did you launch the site on Wednesday?

Derek

Just as a mtter of interest, has anybody else spotted the new record number of users on-line?

jdaw1 wrote:How much of this thread should be heaved overboard to Meaningless Drivel? (Clue: “none† is not the correct answer.)

Unfortunately it isn't possible to heave parts of a thread from one place to another. So, when a thread goes off topic we either live with it or delete the whole lot. My vote goes to living with it, especially if it isn't attached to a serious port thread.

Derek

Alex,

Have you been playing, or just pushing random buttons again? That cant be right, can it?

It is possible to split threads; at least, I’ve seen it done elsewhere.

I noticed the same phenomenon on another site we all know of yesterday. Are there some gremlins at work here? Are all the guests coming from the same IP address? Could it be google's spiders crawling all over the site?

Derek

No Corky, that is right.

Is this site suddenly popular or is it the work of spambots?

It could be legitimate Google links. I'll take a peek.

Its just surged again. And Julian, I think that means we could be back on topic, as this may be the Google Effect?

I witnessed this at a new site we launched at work. My bet goes to google hits building up it's indices. Everyone post the words VINTAGE PORT 500 times simultaneously now

Derek

We now have 66 guests - there aren't 66 people in the world interested in port at the same point in time.

Batten down the hatches, load the guns, launch the lifeboats - incoming Porn

I'l go up top out the bunker to see whats incoming, and if necessary, take a hit for the lads.

Go on you heathens...show me your worst...hang on a minute, let me get me glasses!

It's the Yahoo crawler, which is building indices for its Search Engine. All of the IP addresses are from the same root and they are all Yahoo crawler ids.

Sorry guys - not real, it should stop soon.

Phew, for I while there I was afraid there were far more port lovers in this world than we previously knew of.

RonnieRoots wrote:Phew, for I while there I was afraid there were far more port lovers in this world than we previously knew of.

…with the commensurate affect on auction prices. Phew indeed.

It was quite funny watching what the different guests were up to. Several of them seemed obsessed with Meaningless Drivel.

That spider is still crawling around, it's currently in Tasting Notes.

Uh oh, I think they are off again, must be that time of night.

They have lots of new TNs to read tonight

Back on Subject!!!

Being rather bored, I started trawling through Google with the words The, Port, and Forum, in the Search Bar.
It took until the 9th page to appear (Jdaw1's Placemat reference) So we're in there, but could do with being a lot higher.

Alan