To the loyal readers of MTBNJ.com. I ask you to brace yourself, then look at this Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=new+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
That's a Google search for "new jersey mountain biking". Nowhere on the first page will you see MTBNJ. IMBA? Skiing? Amazon.com? Yes. MTBNJ? Nope.
Go ahead and look, pages and pages and pages. On page 8, you'll even see a Wikipedia entry for Somerset County. But 10 pages of Google results and not a single reference to MTBNJ. Not good.
Jake asked what we could do about it and a buddy of mine gave us some suggestions, one of which was to link to the site as much as possible. Nobody really knows how these engine algorithms work. But some experts voice their opinions here.
Anyway, we're working on any number of things but one that we need your help with is external links. If you have a blog, a MySpace page, or a web page of any kind, putting a link on it back to the site (www.mtbnj.com) can only help. So on behalf of Jake and Steve, I ask you, beg you, implore you with a cherry on top, that if you have a blog, web page, MySpace page, or even an ID on another forum that has a signature (hi Kirt), that you help the site by putting a link to www.mtbnj.com on it. Many have asked what you can do to help. That's just a small detail that we hope will help in making it more visible to the search engines.
Basically, we need this to be much bigger than it is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.mtbnj.com&btnG=Google+Search
Props to Bulldog and Black Bear Cycling for linking to us, though I'm a bit disappointed that the Bulldog description doesn't say "chronic horse sodomizers". That list is incomplete. But it does reflect a severe lack of links to this page.
To shop owners/workers as well as any clubs out there, we ask you do the same.
Thanks for listening,
Norm
http://www.google.com/search?q=new+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
That's a Google search for "new jersey mountain biking". Nowhere on the first page will you see MTBNJ. IMBA? Skiing? Amazon.com? Yes. MTBNJ? Nope.
Go ahead and look, pages and pages and pages. On page 8, you'll even see a Wikipedia entry for Somerset County. But 10 pages of Google results and not a single reference to MTBNJ. Not good.
Jake asked what we could do about it and a buddy of mine gave us some suggestions, one of which was to link to the site as much as possible. Nobody really knows how these engine algorithms work. But some experts voice their opinions here.
Anyway, we're working on any number of things but one that we need your help with is external links. If you have a blog, a MySpace page, or a web page of any kind, putting a link on it back to the site (www.mtbnj.com) can only help. So on behalf of Jake and Steve, I ask you, beg you, implore you with a cherry on top, that if you have a blog, web page, MySpace page, or even an ID on another forum that has a signature (hi Kirt), that you help the site by putting a link to www.mtbnj.com on it. Many have asked what you can do to help. That's just a small detail that we hope will help in making it more visible to the search engines.
Basically, we need this to be much bigger than it is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.mtbnj.com&btnG=Google+Search
Props to Bulldog and Black Bear Cycling for linking to us, though I'm a bit disappointed that the Bulldog description doesn't say "chronic horse sodomizers". That list is incomplete. But it does reflect a severe lack of links to this page.
To shop owners/workers as well as any clubs out there, we ask you do the same.
Thanks for listening,
Norm