www.theoldcomputer.com

As you will probably already have noticed, I have made a number of changes and updates to the forum in order to better organise the site.

I add a few new sections to better subdivide the content. I simplified the descriptions of some of the forums. I move many topics to their new more appropriate locations. I renamed some of the FAQ's and readme's to make them more easily understood. I also reorganised the smilies to include more common and exclude less common ones.

Could I ask the Moderators to continue to check and move topics to their appropriate locations. Could I also ask everyone else to post new topics to the correct location to help us to have less admin to do.

Could I also ask everyone for their suggestions and comments on what has been done. If you can suggest further new forums or sub-forums that you feel would enhance the site please let me know.

Lastly can I please get everyone to go out into the internet and get as many backlinks as possible back to this forum. What we need more than ever are lots and lots of good quality backlinks.

Regards
HT

having a New computer/Modern computer section. in addition to the Retro Computer.

EDIT:
Strike that found it. lol.

Taking a look as I speak/post (?). Ill let ya know what I find (if anything lol)

Backlinks and what they are, and their importance

Sometimes called inbound links, backlinks are the lifeblood of Search Engine Positioning. In order for a website to be on the top of search engines like Google without the webmaster having to pay big money for advertising, the website has to have a large number of backlinks. Backlinks are links on one website that lead back to another website. The more established, high quality, and high Page Rank the website that contains the link has, the more power it has to help the linked website with its search engine position. If the website that is getting backlinks gets many High Quality and High Page Rank backlinks, the better the chance it has of being in a high position on the Search Engines.
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Another way that many people build backlinks for their website is to use Social Bookmarking websites. A "Social Bookmark" is a website that usually has a very popular 'community' aspect to it. Users sign up and create profiles on the sites that contain photos and information about themselves. They then can save "bookmarks" of favorite websites which can be itemized by 'tags', which are one or two word descriptions of what the sites contain, and these bookmarks can be saved to a list that's private or can be listed publicly, so that everybody can see it.
With the advent of what is known as Web 2.0, gaining backlinks is easier now than in any time in the history of the internet. Most sites now have an "interactive" quality to them nowadays. Readers can often sign in and create profiles. They then are often allowed to post comments on the stories or articles on the website or blog. In many cases, the website or blog owner responds to these comments; thus making this section of the website or blog a conversation.
Backlinking strategies can be easy and fun and the website owner who is working on getting more backlinks for his website can learn new things, meet new people, and have a tremendous amount of fun doing something that was once a chore: building backlinks

Added this because I did not know what a backlink was and may be useful for others as well.

so the point is that every one needs to create a lot of links to the TOC!!!

Correct The more the better. All a link to your signatures on other forums. To your facebook or other social sites and also in posts on forums. Better still on other websites.

We have brought this up before too. I believe it was about we wanted to increase the SNES section in google search higher up so it was in the higher listings when you searched for SNES Roms.

Currently SNES Roms is 7th down the page.

But yes, linking is a HUGE part to gaining more page rank in the google, and other, systems. Not so much us linking out to other sites, but having other sites link back to us. =]

If everyone concentrates backlinks to the snes roms section that would be even better. Lets get it to number 1 in Google.

What say ya all

Will work at it, with other groups.