Firestorm at Z's....

[MountainMan]

That's all well and good. I notice that z is attracting some new international members. This used to be one of our biggest features, that we were so diverse in our membership.

I don't know that we are really less so now, but I just don't seem to see the posts from Spain, Portugal, Phillipines, Down Under, etc., etc. that we used to see.

One thing I know: if you go on Yahoo and search for model train forum, or forums, or model railroad forums, etc we are invisible. Even including "gauge" we are still invisible. If you include "big blue" in quotes we come in on page 2. I don't really know how these search engines look up their search terms or sort their results, but it seems like we could find out and use this to our advantage in maintaining and growing membership (assuming that this is a goal.)

So I guess this would be a formal request to our admins to investigate this and possibly make us show up in this kind of search! I probably would never have been on The-Gauge at all if it were not the result of a Yahoo search!

Try Bing.