Vettrocious

Is it my computer skills, or has the NCRS Forum stopped showing up in other people's Google and Bing searches?

The web site seems to still be out there, but it's hard to find...

Frankie the Fink

Comes up for me in Google, Bing and Yahoo....its down the page aways usually. Those 'paying' advertisers always get top billing on the search engines regardless of relevance sometimes...

OC-1

I'm getting the national restoration corp federal agency and state NCRS chapters.

Frankie the Fink

I used "NCRS forum" for my search...

65hihp

This may help you guys and improve your quality of life.
Bookmark the site.
Or make it a favorite site.
It's easy to do.
Cut out the searching.



another tip for you guys.
If you use IE or Safari for most of your web surfing, download Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser for viewing the NCRS website.
The website plays better with either of those than it does with IE.

fyreline

I agree that the NCRS Forum has become increasingly hard to find on web searches. So I just bookmarked it.

vettebuyer6369

If you go there at all, why wouldnt it be a saved favorite/bookmarked link? I dont understand why you would search for a site you would return to.

Zoomin

Maybe he's talking about searches for topics within the NCRS forum amongst others.
*shrug*

Mike Ward

Are the people complaining NCRS members?

Jackfit

Unfortunately, the NCRS uses a "homemade" forum model, rather then the formate used by most other forums. It is difficult to load pictures , and will lock you out if you make mistakes

They are working on it, but are very security minded about hacking

They like the pressure at 13:5 all the time.

Jack. Lol

fyreline

I am an NCRS member, and I have seen the same issues. Why, if you search for "NCRS", would the NCRS not be the first (or at least among the first) sites that are listed?

But it isn't. And it used to be.

Mike Ward

Search engines typically index findings customized to the usage patterns of the individual searcher. If I search just on 'NCRS' the first five findings are for the Ontario NCRS chapter, my home chapter. After that it displays the Florida chapter as I'd been looking for stuff about the winter regional. Stuff for NCRS.org is on page three of the results cause I never search for that as I've got it saved as a favourite.

If I search for NCRS - (minus) Corvette, I get every other organization on earth that also uses NCRS in their name.

Here's a nice one

http://www.catholic.org.nz/ms/dsp-de...F94B3E47616918

I think some of you guys are making things difficult for yourselves.

65hihp

Jack and others,
The IT team at NCRS is working on something on the site almost all the time, but they are not working on making it come up any higher in search engines, and they are not working on making it easier to load photos or not lock you out. Aspects of the site make it snafu in IE and Safari, but that never happens in Chrome or Firefox. I can't explain why because I am not IT savvy. And photos are really easy to load if using Chr or FF, as evidenced by Rich Mozzetta loading up to around 30 images in most of his posts. If you are using IE or Safari and trying to access NCRS.org you are going to be frustrated a lot.

Vettrocious

Hey, its not big deal, just strange, it just always came up first if I searched "NCRS" on Google, so I just used that method. Starting yesterday, it didn't show up in the first few pages of searches. I've got a bookmark, but the search was just as easy if I was already on google...now its not so easy, so I'll use the bookmark

Redbird

They must be working on the system.

fyreline

I agree that this is a symptom that something has changed. I would visit the main NCRS site a couple of times a month, and it ALWAYS came up first in a search for "NCRS". Now it isn't even on the first page. I also agree that this isn't a big deal, it's easy enough to bookmark it - but for new guys searching for it, it's much tougher to find - which isn't good for the organization.

WKNR

Google searches are a very complex algorithm that is a large revenue generator driving its $518 share price.....pay per click, geography, search engine optimization it would make your numbers matching head spin. I presume NCRS does not have a huge digital marketing spend

63redvette

Based upon these posts, I guess I will just forget trying to search "NCRS Forum" for anything...

vetsvette2002

I thought it was about time for another NCRS bashing thread.....

fyreline

I would hope this doesn't devolve into yet another "NCRS-bashing thread". I support them and what they do, a lot of folks are not fans and I understand that. The NCRS has a legitimate role to play, and we should leave it at that. This thread is about a perceived technical issue with the NCRS website, and it was a topic of discussion at the NCRS Winter Regionals I recently attended in Lakeland, Florida so we are not imagining it. What it amounts to is very simple to describe: Up until recently, anyone who searched "NCRS" on nearly any search engine would get the National Corvette Restorer's Society as one of the first hits listed, if not THE first. Now, it's extremely difficult to find it listed at all.

The reasons for this are a bit more difficult to explain. Some have tried above, alluding to how search engines work and/or are funded. The bottom line here is, something changed - recently, and radically. Why? And also, at the end of the day the solution is quite simple - invest the time to find the site, bookmark it, you're done.

Even easier . . . here's the link to the NCRS website:
http://www.ncrs.org/