Forum Moderators: open
1) doing the long over due split of PHP and PERL into separate sub forums under server side scripting.
2) adding a javascript forum.
3) splitting aff/ad forum into affiliate and advertising.
Mulling over
- a MSN forum for specific talk about msn.
- an Alexa forum.
- search engine stock, legal, and finance.
We add new forums based on need. To consider a new forum, I think we need atleast 50 threads about the topic to consider it.
What do you think we need?
Mulling over
- a MSN forum for specific talk about msn.
- an Alexa forum.
- search engine stock, legal, and finance.
MSN Forum -> Good Idea
Alexa Forum -> Not required
Legal/Finance -> Good Idea
Seperate Forum required for -
- Overture
- Credit Card Issues
- Issues related to PC/Windows OS (members are currently posting threads under FOO)
There are simply too many threads under Google News. It could be split based on specific issues like PageRank etc.
It'd be a small thing but, this is a HUGE growth area.
Nick
I just don't see a MSN forum, from previous experiences it's always been hard to follow things when you have specific forums for portals (Yahoo has it's own directory which makes it a bit special), since they use 3 different providers for serp's it think it will be a bit messy, if they change that to something else, i might reconsider it.
Not to *hot* on the Alexa forum either.
- search engine stock, legal, and finance.
50% not sure why, it just touches a few sensitive issues.
Specific Overture forum, i think it's not a bad idea, but i still think it's better to have it in the Pay Per Click forum.
Also i think Ecommerce can handle the Credit card issue, it's a really good forum to handle those issues in.
1, 2 and 3 i think are both good, HTML forum have a lot of threads about JS issues etc. And as long as no specific programs is mentioned in the affiliate forum i think it's a good idea.
And YES google news forum is very big, not sure what to suggest there.
#2. Email marketing 199 threads, and
#3. visitor/customer service/support 328 & 133 threads respectfully
In addition, Brett you recently indicated that a sale/service website without forum (or maybe chat) interaction is losing business (or something to that affect). I totally agree.
The connection with #3. IMHO is a pre-mainstream direction but very noteworthy for inclusion.
This also extents to one of my pet-peeves FAQ's pages that rarely change, to meet todays concerns.
Flash, and Apache.
>alexa not needed
Nearly 50 threads on the subject - we need a collection spot as they are scattered all over the place (alexa is the #16 search word of the last year and the #4 search word of the last 3 months [webmasterworld.com] on the site search engine - 750,000 searches).
Checkout this thread [webmasterworld.com] for why we need an alexa forum. That thread has wandered all over the place - that's what happens when we don't have a specific forum for the topic.
>cc issues
I'd not considered that, but I think Laz has it that the ecomm and pro.web.issues covers it for now.
>usability
That's one I'd want to find a real pro for a moderator first.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 11:32 am (utc) on Feb. 21, 2003]
boy do I feel rejected now :(
Nick
"Hotels" brings up 95 items in site search ("hotel" has 152) and "tourism" has 45. I would guess other areas (bed and breakfast, accommodation, travelnow, etc) would bring up a sizable total
Also, I don't see the need for an "Alexa Only" forum either.
Perhaps a "Traffic Trends & Statistics" forum would be more appropriate. You could toss Alexa in there as well as other sites that focus on these topics.
Perhaps a "Traffic Trends & Statistics"
Yep, chuck WordTracker and the other stuff in there too. Nice! - I don't like Alex forum either...
Nick
Discussions on how to secure affiliate income would also be controversial?
Could be used to discuss issues regarding good design / business / marketing / usability / etc practice?
I know these areas are covered seperately in other forums, but a place to bring them all together would be nice! :)
Scott
Expansion of Keyword discussion forum?
And i think that is between the keyword discussion forum and the Tracking and Logging forum or?
thanks.
What about good practice
Ohhhh.. think about it MG, the 'ethical seo' brigade would be bombarding that one for all it's worth ;)
Nick
Good point. (noted). Something of a general database nature would probably be better.
That would be great. I would be a regular there:)
There was recently a long thread on password management that stayed in Foo! ;)
[edited by: aus_dave at 1:57 pm (utc) on Feb. 21, 2003]
SQL, MDX, OLAP, and normalization topics are also a large topic base. I consider XML and Data architecture the 2 missing forums here.
A javascript forum would help also.
<added>good point about security</added>
Hehe good point - lets file that one under spam and email marketing then! ;)
Did i read somewhere that a "review my site" forum was tried before and failed?
Perhaps something like that would be a good members only feature (addition to the supporters forum)?
Scott
