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I think it may be because the Founders, had "Quality"over "Quantity" when the site was founded. They set up this place after being VERY disappointed with the other sites, of that Day, and wanted something different. This place is very different in it's Administration, and Moderation, than most of the other Prep'er Sites. Also I think, they just never expected it to GROW, like it has, and thought that it would always be just a Private Place for them to Exchange Ideas, among themselves, and a few new Friends. Well, Low & Behold, it has grown, and expanded, to what you see today, and it still works, almost as well, as it did when it was founded, and that says a LOT, about the Founders, and the Ideals, they used in it's founding. I, for one, not being a Founder, but one of the New Friends, Thank the Maker, to have found this place, where I can give back, to those who ASK, of my Knowledge Base, and experience.

 

It happens to ALL Admins and Mods, even here.... As I said, this place is different, in that nothing happens here, without a "Meeting of the Minds" of the Staff, when one of these situations arises. Our CoC, is plain and simple... You cross it, you get sanctioned... You try and walk the "Thin Line" It is discussed, and a consensus, is arrived at, and you are informed, usually by PM, and NOT in the Forums. There a couple of Monkeys, that "Give me GAS" therefore I recuse myself, from Moderating their Stuff, and let the Other Mods, and Admins, deal with them. I still read everything, and will make a "Report" if I see a CoC Violation, but I do NOT Vote, or put Input, in the "Behind the Scene discussions"... This works for ME.....

 

I'm not the best equipped to expound on why SM isn't a top, but at one point we were in the top of the searches for preppers and survivalists. Them dayz is gone, back then, driving hits was a goal. When in the top, it was partially because we used Google for statistics, and a wonderful world that was, we could see all sorts of useless information. But by using Google, they worked us into their search engine, I think there was a price attached to it, dunno for sure. Google attracted some undesirable poking and prodding that didn't bear a very deep probe to find un-nice things buried in the pile, including train loads of spam. At that point, SM abandoned google, and immediately we dropped out of the top grouping. I don't know if the other search engines do the same sort of thing or not, nor does it matter, we're doing nicely with word of mouth.

Thanx for the vote of confidence, AD1.

When melbo gets back, might be he will add a few tidbits.

 

I've come across plenty of highly qualified experts in my life who lack even the most basic level of common sense.
Thankfully, this forum does not tend to cater to the "experts", and continues to grow in membership and allows its members to share information freely.

Also, we are still highly searchable.

 

Those voting sites are kinda gimmicky to me. It also requires us to place a 'free' ad back to Prepper Website itself.
We're doing fine - Google and other search engines are continually shuffling their algorithms and it affects search results from year to year. If there were a sure fire way of a site becoming #1 in anything, I'd be a Billionaire right now

Us using Google Analytics or not really doesn't have much to do with how we rank within Google itself -

 

Obviously, you have never seen a picture of Pax.... Last t I've we had lunch, he had a very nice PonyTail....

 

No, he was a well appoint Gentelman, of Senior Years,, with a Nice Gray PonyTail.. Of substantial length...