This is NOT a hater thread.. but...

[mstevens]

clever on the surface, but ultimately reeks of spam.

Not sure I agree. I think of spam as unsolicited email, off-topic postings to a newsgroup or message board advertising something, or perhaps excessive advertising cruft on a webpage (cf. the current DML). People put all sorts of stuff in their sig lines, from personal philosophy to links to other websites to pictures of their bikes or kids. Those things aren't usually spam.

I know I wouldn't want to see it plastered everywhere.

Is my sig line really all that intrusive or annoying?

c'mon, we're above that.

I don't think I'm with you here, either. People do all sorts of things in the name of search engine optimizing, things far more egregious than what's being discussed here.

One point here is that even putting "Ducati" in front of "Monster" in your bike's description, despite the fact that the manufacturer is a given and could surely be taken on faith, can make this forum easier to find for someone searching for it and lots more likely that someone NOT specifically looking for the DMF will stumble across it and thereby enrich their lives (I'm not kidding - see below).

It took me a day or so to find the DMF from the DML, and that's because I was looking diligently to find where everyone had gone. I have nothing against the DML and still check it out every few days or so. I found it purely by accident because of a casual Google search. That led not only to my finding a like-minded group of people to argue with, but to the decision to get my first motorcycle. I even found my bike for sale there. It is safe to say that the old forum added a great deal to my life. However, it's not the resource it once was.

I have absolutely nothing against anyone's using the DML. I just think it would be a disservice to them if they couldn't find the DMF just as easily.

[ducpainter]

 elephant surgery..... please. 

[cyrus buelton]

I am hatin' on Nate

[ducpainter]

I am hatin' on Nate

That's nice....

[ducpainter]

I am hatin' on Nate

...or...what'd I do this time?   

[cyrus buelton]

That's nice....

[herm]

so all i have to do is end my sentence with something like ducati monster forum?
or should end it with ducatimonsterworldwide?

just curious, because i have already answered a bunch of questions about tail chops.
and exhaust mods.
and clip ons
and rear sets.........

[roy-nexus-6]

One point here is that even putting "Ducati" in front of "Monster" in your bike's description, despite the fact that the manufacturer is a given and could surely be taken on faith, can make this forum easier to find for someone searching for it and lots more likely that someone NOT specifically looking for the DMF will stumble across it and thereby enrich their lives (I'm not kidding - see below).

I have absolutely nothing against anyone's using the DML. I just think it would be a disservice to them if they couldn't find the DMF just as easily.

+1.

I've simply put the worlds 'ducati monster forum' under my avatar pic. The other thing I did was make www.ducatimonsterworldwide.org the web page listed in my profile info. The 'title' of the web page can be anything - for example I made the title 'Ducati Monster Forum where I learned how to do a tail chop'. It's quite invisible, unless you do a mouseover.

[Scottish]

Yeah I think it's a cool idea to put it into your profile info somewhere, if everyone were to do so, we'd have over 63,000 hits on it already. Every post by every member..... let's be careful not to become to big though, we don't want VS looking at us again....










elephant hysterectomies....

[mstevens]

I notice that as of the time this is posted, DMF is the 3rd result on Google, below DML and the DML General Monster Forum. Of course, that's with the old ducatimonsterworldwide.org URL, not the ducatimonsterforum.org one. Nice to see how quickly it's moved up.

Why are those elephants getting plain ol' hysterectomies and not hystersalpingooophorectomies?

[NAKID]

So, typing "Ducati Monster" into Google doesn't result in a hit for this website on any of the first 10 pages. Now "Ducati Monster Forum" is different, but really, how many people would actually type that in?

[bigiain]

So, typing "Ducati Monster" into Google doesn't result in a hit for this website on any of the first 10 pages.

Not at all surprising, seeings as how we've really only existed for 6 weeks. A lot of us put a fair bit of time and effort over the years into pushing TOB up the search engine results, now we're doing it here instead, but it's going to take a lot more than six weeks to happen.
(http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?action=stats)

Now "Ducati Monster Forum" is different, but really, how many people would actually type that in?

It's what I'd try second if I was looking for a lively forum and the search for Ducati Monster only revealed TOB with its ~100posts per day these days...

I just had a look at the stats, here's the current list of top search engine queries:
1.   ducati monster forum   1,070
2.   ducati monster worldwide   930
3.   ducatimonsterworldwide   689
4.   ducatimonsterworldwide.org   303
5.   ducati monster forums   236
6.   ducati monster world wide   63
7.   ducati monster forum worldwide.org   50
8.   bike of the moment baby   41
9.   ducati monster forum worldwide   31
10.   monster forum worldwide   24
11.   www.ducatimonsterworldwide.org   22
12.   ducati monster for sale   19
13.   ducati monsters worldwide   14
14.   dmf ducati   12
15.   ducatimonster forum   12
16.   ducati monster forum dmf   12
17.   monster worldwide forum   10
18.   ducati monster worldwide.org   9
19.   monster forum   8
20.   ducati monster forum world wide   8
21.   ducatimonster worldwide   8
22.   ducati monster board   8
23.   www.ducatimonstweworldwide.org   6
24.   ducatimonsterworldwide.com   6
25.   www.ducatimonsterworlwide.org   6
26.   ducatimonsterworlwide.org   6
27.   ducati monster org   6
28.   site:ducatimonsterworldwide.org ducati monster worldwide   6
29.   ducati monster worldwide forum   5
30.   ducati monster worldwide site   5

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