Me thinks webmasterworld needs more google forums --

maybe one on algo, one for updates, and one for why google does not like me

[wasmith]

I like knowing whats going on with the worlds most important search engine. But the single google forum with mods working overtime to try to keep things easy to browse is overflowing.

Not because of lack of mod effort! they seem to work overtime to keep multible threads on the same subject from confusing the flow of information.

But it looks like maybe webmasterworld could be the first forum in history to be able to have multible forums on google because of the current volume of posts?

PS not that google does not like mwa. just the name for those threads.

[Brett_Tabke]

I agree. How do you break it down? And after you break it down, how do you keep people posting in the right forum?

We've discussed it for over a year, and we thought it would just lead to MORE moderation, not less. People would always be posting in the wrong forum.

[roscoepico]

Could you first determine the categories you'd like to have and then make it a requirement(pull down menu?) to select the most appropriate category when posting to the google forum? You have a question about spidering, then choose spidering in the pull down menu, a question about ranking, choose ranking in the pull down menu, etc...

[tigger]

roscoepico

That would work fine if people posted in the correct forum, otherwise we will be constantly moving postings around

[wasmith]

I think i need to plead guilty to posting this question in the wrong forum at this point. I posted it in the foo forum and it was moved. am sorry ... but it highlights the concern over Mods work needs to be taken seriously.

Still thinking about what topics may work best ... think ... think ... think ... but my first thoughts are 1. a topic for "the current and next update" to attact people who want to be indexed and the dance. 2. a topic on "The _current_ google algo", yes the algo changes but thats what makes a forum. and 3. "Google Foo" which is everything else.

Google foo may get posts for 1 and 2 but i think 1 and 2 would be cleaner. and Foo should not be worse for the wear.

[jimmykav]

I agree that the google forum is getting overwhelmed. If i miss checking in for more than a couple of hours I get page after page of little red dots and have to scan carefully for stuff I am interested in.

My suggestions for a breakdown:

Algorithm
Optimization
Update & Dances
Adwords etc.

[vitaplease]

There are those whose that would like to see all the Google threads in one forum because they want to learn all aspects and they believe no thread can be truely labelled as "one-topical".

Others only want to know about "updates" etc.

Maybe it would be an idea to leave them all in one forum, but to let the moderators add a simple and most apropriate topic "tag" such as the above stated:

Algorithm
Optimization
Update & Dances
Adwords
(frequent) Spidering etc.

I could imagine its less work for a moderator to add a tag than to move complete or parts of a thread somewhere.
You could even leave the option of adding two tags.

Where would you categorise a thread with the title:

Do adwords influence algo-rankings or frequent spidering?

I do not know how easy it would be to search on tag-topics though.

[Dino_M]

Def more cats need in google -

Everything seems to get posted in google, a question about alt tags - google. question about meta tags - google. question about spam - google etc..

Because google is so important every question is set in context to how google will see/react, even if the question relates to all search engines.

How much longer can we wait? Google is increasing it's market share every month and more and more users are joining Webmaster world, this is making it increasingly difficult to find the information you want in the google forum.

[lazerzubb]

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