BlueFrogPosse said:
I think what he's saying is that members of this forum who wish to make a valid contribution to a discussion can still insert links to the other forums, but still wants the practice kept to a minimum.
Exactly, IF, we were a sponsored forum, they would be ticked, and that's probably one of the reasons they don't link to us. I have no problem with anyone linking there as long as it is valid. Linking to another forum to try to persuade members to leave, spamming, and BS links to porn, commercial sites for their gain, and other crap has got to stop.
Examples:
GOOD - neuspeed has a cool new product that is something that other MFG members might think is cool and or can benefit from.
Bad - Linking to forgemotorsport, they have cool stuff. (especially since I've been removing spam lately going to their site)
GOOD - Linking to golfmkv.com because of a technical bulletin (Service to the other members)
Bad - linking to gaysex.com (obvious)
GOOD - linking to pictures of how to on VWVORTEX.com
Bad - Linking to Pharmacies or other advertisements / surveys,.
Bad - Linking "check this out" at this forum/site without having a good valid reason to make a link there.
In other words, If you post a link to somewhere else, make sure you state why you are linking there. Otherwise it will be deleted.
I don't want to piss anyone off, but I put a lot of time and money developing backlinks to MFG so we will score high in search engine results and other sites are sending people over to make links to their sites from here. This makes the search engines believe they are more important and will give them higher ranking. Then one day you say, where is everyone and they will be at the other forum because they dominate the first 2 pages of the search engine results. I want MFG to grow. I've got some very big plans for the site. so please bare with me.
FF
PS. If you are wondering what plans are in the works here. Check out our sister site
www.RabbitOwnersClub.com in the next few days. I am in the process of changing that board first because it is smaller and easier work with. If it works the way I want, We'll be changing MFG to work the same way.
