When it comes to marketing your site .edu links are pretty powerful. We have added a phpbb forum to forum.adison.edu and encourage everyone to join in on the fun. There are a few rules: Keep posts on topic No signatures are allowed Max of 2 links per post, no casino, porn or pharmacy You also get the www icon link Preston - 719-290-5967
We are trying to keep the pr high and strong and if we allow signatures we could bulk up the pages with too many links. We need to keep this site strong in pagerank so the forum, blogs and link directory help our supporters. Any ideas that can help are very welcome. Preston
Explain more about what you mean. What does this thread have to do with "reviews" and who moved it. Why do you guys have a problem with every topic I post? This thread belongs in marketing where it was first posted, not here in never never land.
I am not asking for a review of the forum. I am encouraging people to join the forum where they can market their site. If I wanted a review I would have added the thread here. The forum was opened so dp visitors can get highly wanted .edu links which helps their website marketing. I don't want a review.
There is no section of the forum for members to announce new sites, except for the directories section. You didn't start a directory so this doesn't belong there. The marketing forums are not to be used to announce new sites. Seems applicable.
Again I have a marketing advantage for people and I still want to know why you insist in shoving this post where almost no one will see it. Yes, it is a new forum but the point is that this forum has a huge marketing advantage and it belongs in the marketing area of the forum. I contribute to this forum both in giving a little of my knowledge and my money to be treated this way it's obsurd. I posted this "When it comes to marketing your site .edu links are pretty powerful" Please explain why this huge benefit to website marketing needs to be shoved away from the main marketing section, into a section that does not apply and out of the view of the people, maybe because it promotes another "forum" This still has nothing to do with a review, at all Who removed the post from "login" that reiterated the fact that this post is in the wrong place? "Seems applicable" ""General category for marketing related topics - Seems applicable here too!""
It does look as though they have no intentions of putting this in the proper forum. I was right, they saw to it that my forum was out of being visible to the majority of DP visitors. So far this forum is far from bias when it comes to other forums and directories of stature. I have been welcome and almost without infractions until I started promoting www.adison.edu now I have had 3 infractions in april alone and can almost get one for every topic I start. I have started 4 topics since april, 3 had infractions and you are reading about the fourth. So far I have not had an infraction on this post, but the whole post was literally trashed by placing it in a topic where no response or attention will be had. Our forum is free with just a few rules. It does have its marketing advantages, it does.
.edu links are no better than any other (and if you want to reply that they are please include some supporting evidence) & just because your forum is an "edu forum" doesn't mean it gets special treatment in terms of where it can be announced at DP. Other forum owners don't get to announce their forums in the marketing sections and neither do you. The same rules apply to everyone - you're not entitled to special treatment. I did, login is not a mod and his opinion on where a post belongs is irrelavent.
As a Mod, I can confirm it's in the most appropriate of places. Whether or not that will result in the exposure you are looking for is not the issue. Now, what was the topic again?
The topic for the post was marketing, I don't need a review on a phpbb and whom ever thinks I do is wrong. Since when is someones opinion to be judged and removed. All of this thread is your opinion. Here we go again, another thread, another infraction. Who gave me the infraction? it was for Inappropriate Post/Thread oh my god which post was this. I now see that your true intentions are to get me off this forum. Not any of the 4 infractions I have received are warranted. And they started after I announced www.adison.edu - Is it because I am a threat to the other directory owners who mod this forum? I see it is... I was wondering why your guys did not give me an infraction for this thread, but you did after you moved out of the public's eye...
Your perception of the situation is wrong. We have no plans to kick you out. You only have 4 minor infractions out of a total of 10. That's about average. We don't care whether you run anything that might compete with what we have going here. What we do care about is an organized forum and enforced rules. Also about threads staying on topic (removing hijacks such as login's) and members not dropping links every other post (what you are bordering on yourself). The Marketing forum is about discussing marketing techniques and strategies, not about promoting your somewhat related site. As explained, if you want us to look at your site, it should go where it is now. Feel free to continue to think you are on our blacklist or assuming we have bad intent... Or contemplate moving on and upwards from here. PS Enjoy this one. That kind of posts won't help your cause much.
You said it: "somewhat related site" Thats the answer here. My site has no relation to reviews, none whatsoever. I dont want a review, my post does not ask for a review. So by putting it here you are killing the post altogether. Yes I am not "discussing marketing techniques and strategies" my opportunity is a marketing technique and strategy. As for blacklist it just seems odd that after being a member 10 months I get an infraction for every topic I start. And how weird this just happened after I started promoting an edu directory.
You read too much in the one word "Reviews". As GFC quoted, the description is: "For anything that is specific to you and requires someone to go look at whatever it is." You have a site and you want people to check it out and join. That's pretty close to a review, much closer than a discussion of a marketing principle. That's you putting 2 and 2 together. Whether that is fact or assumption I guess is impossible for you to know. Odd it may be. But you can at least not promote it as fact. Considering the way this forum has gone since day 1 it's probably a safer bet Mods have the best of intentions than to assume we are trying to get you out of here. Anyway, in the freebies forum you seem to have gathered a good following so I guess that renders this thread obsolete anyway.