Has this site been submitted to search engines, yet?

[Jeff]

I just want others to be able to enjoy our community. I think it's ready. Is the web server ready for more hits? Sure seems fast enough to me. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

~See you at the SCIWire-used-to-be-paralyzed Reunion http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/wavey.gif ~

[Wise Young]

Thanks, Jeff.

This site has been submitted to all the major search engines... I am continuing to try to find ways to get our site listed higher on the priority listings of search engines. The site is capable of taking millions of hits a day without significant slow down, one of the reasons why we chose to use the infopop host.

As you can see, we have about 820 registered members and we are continuing to gain registrants at the rate of 8-10 people per day. About 400 registered members are coming in daily to the site and about twice that many non-registered visitors are visiting daily.

The contents on the forums as well as the main carecure site are building up so I believe we currently have greater breadth, depth, and quality of up-to-date information on spinal cord injury than any other site on internet. If you do a search on any keyword relating to spinal cord injury, you will find dozens if not hundreds of in-depth postings on almost every subject relevant to people with spinal cord injury.

It is useful to compare this site with the Braintalk Community www.braintalk.org (http://www.braintalk.org) run by John Lester. This incredibly busy and successful site has over 42000 registered members and 230 conditiion-oriented forums with several million postings accumulated over the past 2 years. They haver much greater breadth but not as much depth or as much of a community feel. For example, Braintalk has a forum called "spinal cord injury" there with 183 topics and about 512 postings over the past two years. They are getting perhaps one posting every 2-3 days in that forum. On any individual condition, including their most popular forums (MS), Braintalk does not have the depth and quality of information that we have here on spinal cord injury.

In my opinion, there is no other site that is even close to the CareCure forum in terms of information. The flow of information is now reaching the point where it takes more than 10 minutes to read the 60 or more postings that people are putting up daily. I am very proud of the level of the discussion that is occurring on the site.

Wise.

[This message was edited by Wise Young on November 11, 2001 at 09:29 AM.]

[Jeff]

I tell everyone I meet about the site. Some people seem to be born community participants and some seem not to. But I love the way we continue to grow steadily and I'm sure it'll continue. SCI deserves a site with its own focus and the depth we're achieving here is a result of that, I'm sure. There's nothing common to SCI that we don't discuss here and people are gaining useful information, everyday. Thanks for your efforts in providing this site. Our best days are ahead and I look forward to the impact we'll make on the field and on the world!

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