Club Visibility / Search responses

[Timf]

Well, the forums now appear to be being picked up some by Search engines....we are on the first page of hits for searches with the terms 'cambridge city games' and 'cambridge games club'

We however fail currently on 'cambridge wargames club' and 'cambridge games forum'.

So visibility is now starting to occur. I might tweak a few of the descriptions and see if that generates better visibility

[simonb]

Tim,

I suspect you'll get a better response if "outsiders" are allowed to see all the posts on the site. The limited access doesn't allow someone who is not registered with the forum to see what is happening at the club and what games are played.

Simon

[Timf]

Currently - what should be vsible is the Public Information board - so a set of club details and the library indicating the games available but not the actual day to day game arrangements and what is being played at the moment.

POssibly worth seeing what people think....do we want more open visibility of the forums?

[ali]

I thought this place was dead when I eventually found it, cuz you can't see anything posted more recently than February or whenever. It was only when I looked down at the 'users active in the last 24 hours' box (after a close examination of everything I had access to) that I came to the conclusion that the majority of the forum was only visible to members.

[Timf]

OK well then, if there is not a massive weight of objection in a week's time I will convert the games forum to be readable by anyone (still members only posting).

If you read this, please tell other members. I'll raise it tonight at the club business (though if Im not there for any reason could someone else raise it please?)

I'll leave the Administration forum private and take opinions on the Miscellaneous board.

[Timf]

OK in a slightly faster move than planned, given a general yes vote at the club business meeting last night, I have made the Announcements board of the Admin section visible to all, the Calendar visible to all and the Game Boards visible to all.

[Timf]

Right, I've garnered enough Geekgold from Geekmodding on Boardgamegeek to allow me to set up a guildpage there....one of the classic options for guilds is club pages, so I intend to do that.

While BGG is primarily for boardgames, they include all tabletop wargames in their Boardgame section, and their RPG arm is taking off too. So it should add some visibility to the club.

[listy]

Thanks Tim.