Cre8tive Flow

In the age of forum and blog spam to get eyes on a web site, we found an instance where good ole’ fashioned honest feedback and care by a loyal site user can do a much better job at reputation management.

In the discussion, Site Speed. How To Speed It Up?, someone joined Cre8asiteforums to ask about how to increase site speed for a particular site.

Shortly afterward, she got 6 responses. Some offered diagnostics that members ran to offer some help. Various advice was offered.

Then, the owner of the web site joined the forums!

What caught one member’s attention was the discovery that several web sites that WERE in DMOZ (Open Directory Project) are no longer there. What happened?

Turns out he’s not alone. So the next question is whether or not it even matters anymore. If dropped, there is rarely a human on board that can help. And, to get a site added is just about impossible. No one seems to be on deck. Google’s directory results from DMOZ are different, so one wonders if they’re even updated at all.

What have you decided? Do you bother with DMOZ? Are you finding your sites are de-listed?

Barry Welford decided to experiment. What did he find? What got the Cre8tive Community excited?

Look Ma! No Homepage! discussions and explores. Jump in!

This is a great question!  We pursue the answers in When Do I Start Working on My Website?

Do you buy the domain first?
Create content first?
Hire a designer and then plan it out?

What should be done before you start building your web site?

Cre8asiteforums discussion on When Do I Start Working on My Website? here. Join us!

Any search engine marketer who has attempted to register their client’s business web site with Google Local Business is met with some serious usability roadblocks. Google put into place several security and privacy steps, but they come at a price.

Before a listing is accepted, Google must call the business to verify they want their listing published. If you are the site owner and you’re entering your business information, you are likely also near a phone. When the automated phone call is placed, you’re there to answer it, retrieve the code it assigns you and finish your online application.

At Cre8asiteforums, we’re discussing the Internet response to celebrity deaths. What some of us saw early on, particularly in the case of Michael Jackson, was a mix of shock and grief and a sudden vile response. If you didn’t present the “correct” opinion in Twitter, you could risk being “unfollowed”.

Participants in The Internet Response To Michael Jackson’s Sudden Death bring a variety of experiences from all over the world.

For many, the Internet was NOT the place to go for any kind of solace or even factual information. It is, however, where millions went at first and many sites crashed as a result.

A great debate is taking place in Cre8asiteforums on social media, social networking, human behavior, societal change and whether “awareness” is mistaken for actual change.”

Ruud Hein starts off the Opinion: Media, Social Or Not, Does Not Cause Change by referring to how the latest Iranian political situation is being communicated “live” via Twitter.

Some of the discussion:

I repeated a story I’d heard on the news about an elderly couple who were spending the night on their roof when the quakes started. They struggled to hold hands and keep from being separated as their building pancaked, but after the quake the husband was left to tell the tale and the wife had slipped out of his grasp and been swallowed by rubble. I told him it brought tears to my eyes.

An interesting question appeared in Cre8asitforums.

A domestic violence and abuse site would like me to add a button to their website that people can click on to delete traces so that abusers can’t track them down

The responses to Erase History Button For Domestic Violence Site are insightful, especially if you’re not sure how your Internet usage is tracked.