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It’s free!

We’re having a party!

Cre8asiteforums celebrates its 6th year anniversary this month with a month long series of interviews, games, reunions, and the launch of new forums. Kim Krause Berg is interviewing Cre8tive Community members, industry folks and forums Moderators.

Are We 6 or 10?

Technically, if you’re Kim Krause Berg, we’re 10 years old. This is how long I’ve been at the wheel. Cre8asiteforums began as the Cre8pc Website Promotion Club, back in 1998, in Egroups. Egroups was acquired by Yahoo! and changed into Yahoo! Clubs.

In the past, Cre8asiteforums accepted paid advertisements on static pages and inside the forums. We contributed our funds to SEO contest prizes, several educational and internship scholarships and to help in emergency situations for people in the industry who have required medical assistance for tragic situations.

Ad sales stopped because there was no one on staff available to handle the job. Kim Krause Berg, Founder and Administrator, is relaunching ad revenue generation so that Cre8asiteforums can again contribute and sponsor educational events and opportunities in the industries covered by the forums.

My pet peeve about some news web sites is that sometimes they only offer the story in video format, with no text alternative. To watch it, I have to include the extra time to watch the TV commercial they start off with. This ordeal resembles movie trailers we sit through before the actual feature movie begins.

Some TV shows offer past episodes online. This allows TV viewers to play catch up on their favorites by letting them view shows on their laptops. It’s very handy and affords viewers the choice of when and where to watch the TV shows they love.

The cat’s out of the bag. Not everyone you meet online is real. Not only that, the entity you thought was your soul mate has turned out to be a cartoon creation for some new fangled product. You’ve been targeted and lured by the practice of “Fake Avatars”.

Is it ethical to purposely lie on the Internet?

Fake accounts, fake avatars and fake friends. It’s actually nothing new. I never believed half the stuff I was told in the adult chat rooms from the 1990’s Internet.

(Did I just say that?)

One of the main objectives for search engine marketing is to ensure your web site comes up high in search results when someone performs a search. New sites sometimes have a tougher climb. The marketing methods vary and some will insist it’s all smoke and mirrors, manipulation and perhaps cheating.

Someone found an example where the top 11 spots were held by the same company, but each with a different web site with unique domain and content. He wondered if this is “blackhat SEO” in action.

The Cre8asiteforums discussion, Is This Normal Or Straight Up Black Hat? A real life case study, may surprise you!

Today we say goodbye to a role, but not the man.

Bill Slawski Stepping Down As Administrator

Bill joined the original Cre8pc Web Site Promotion Club in Yahoo! (was Egroups) in 1998. In 2002, he agreed to become a co-administrator for a bigger version, called Cre8asiteforums. After 10 years, he is moving on.

You can still find Bill at Seobythesea and the KeyRelevance blog, SemClubhouse.

Welcome to our latest tromp through the fields of Cre8tive Community discussion threads and member blog posts that impress us, make us laugh, help us think and may even convince us we really do know what the heck we’re doing.

Cre8asite Forums Threads

Here are some of our favorite threads of this week.

• Portfolio Site “intro Spiel” - Where To Find Concrete Advice On What To Say And How To Say It?
  
  

  I know I need to have some kind of “intro spiel” on my first page, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what to say. I don’t even know where to start. It’s hitting me the same way as having to write a cover page for a resume.