SEO For The Common Webmaster

I have a few good friends who work and live in the Toronto area of Canada. They are always telling me that the city is big on recycling electronics. Toronto electronics recycling has fast become a huge industry with the constant changing of technology. It is becoming harder to harder for bigger companies to dispose of all that old equipment.

There is one good company that I have researched called ADL Process. They handle computer disposal in Toronto. They take computers and other forms of electronics and recycle them. They handle the whole process for companies so that the products are disposed of in a way that is environmentally safe.

This company should be an example to all of us webmasters who thrive on the newest greatest technological device. As we upgrade, expand, switch phones, and other activities that involve replacing old with new, we need to take the time to consider what we are doing with the old products. Are we recycling and disposing of them in the proper manner?

It is everyone’s job to prevent these materials from making it to the landfill. I challenge my many readers and webmasters everywhere to think carefully when disposing of your products and if you are in the Toronto area, be sure to contact ADL for proper procedures. If not, you may be able to find a similar company right in your own city.

I am not to promote one candidate over another. I am writing this post to encourage you to get out and vote. Do not let any media coverage convince you there is already a winner. It is your responsibility to get out and VOTE!

Be sure to consider all issue that are important to you and vote because of those not because you follow one party or another blindly. This is an important time in history and one reason to have your vote counted. I am not just referring to the Presidential race, I am also referring to all federal, state, and local races.

If you representatives are not representing you, it is time to send their asses packing. It is up to the American people to make America mean something again. Let your voice be heard loud and clear and head to the voting poll!

I recently sold off the directory I started. It was becoming very successful but was also attacked with a bunch of spam. I found myself not able to keep up with approving links and deleting spam ones. I found that the amount of time was more than I wanted to spend.

I did some good promotion on the directory and made a small profit. I have learned though to stick to what I do best and that is blogging. I love to blog, I make a little money at it and it is fun. I have seven blogs so that is enough to keep me busy when I am Online.

I am curious, how many of you enjoy owning a directory? Is it fun or just for money?

If you have been around a while as a webmaster, I am sure that you have heard about Digital Point Forums. It is the largest known webmaster forum. It was once one of the best market places for webmasters. Is it losing its appeal?

In the past few months many changes have been made. Some are good and some are causing problems with doing any business on the forums. There have been many new moderators added and some are so young that they lack the maturity to run a forum of that size. The forum is running over with spammers and scammers and the sad part is that some of the scammers are long time members who seem to be protected by the forum leaders. Threads started about this member are closed and many people have been scammed.

The rules have been updated to include a 7 day ban for bumping threads. Of course, the general chat forum has tons of threads that have nothing to do with webmaster related topics and they can be bumped over and over. They say it is to clean up the market place but the market place is beyond repair. If you post an offer, it is quickly buried or overrun by people willing to work so cheap that a member from an Industrialized nation would starve with those rates.

The freebie section is a joke because it includes anything from free up to $5 deals. This is not free, it is a joke. Every time this is brought up, the thread is quickly closed with responds like “It ain’t going to happen” or “Only Shawn can change it.”

Shawn is the owner of the forum and he only pops in now and then and seems to have no interest in members’ concerns. That is sad to see since DP was once the greatest webmaster forum on the Internet.

The rules seem to change all the time and there can be stickies found all over the forum but not consolidated in one convenient place. We are told to report violations of the rules. However, it depends on which moderator you get rather it will be dealt with. Shannon (Smyrl on the forum) is the only moderator that can be relied on to handle issues the same all the time.

I am not trying to trash the forum because there are some great members on there. I have done a lot of business on DP since I joined in the spring of 2006. I am just expressing my concerns and the concerns of many members on the forum. I have tried to express those concerns on the forum and the threads are shut down quickly. I would love to see DP restored to a webmaster forum of high quality. It is sad to see General Chat garbage threads getting hundreds of replies while honest webmaster related topics may not get any. Is DP still a webmaster forum?

The problems have drawn me to ask the question to both myself and other members, has Digital Point Forums lost its appeal for webmasters?