My Sites Devoted to Parks and Vegas/Cruising

[HoosierGuy]

Ok, I think it's safe to post about my two sites here. I want to share with you my first one. It's about state and national parks in the Midwest. I call it midwestparktalk.com

Midwest State and National Park Discussion Forums - Index

The reason I created it is because I love message boards and I love parks. My domain name is probably a little too long but it's my first message board site and my pet project. I decided to make the site about the Midwest because the west part of the U.S. has many great national parks like Yellowstone and the east coast has many too. I wanted to focus on state (and national) parks in the Midwest, particularly state parks and recreation areas.

My second site that I just got up and I'm still working on is devoted to another of my loves, travel. My second site is about cruising on cruise ships and Las Vegas. Yeah, there are cruising message boards out there. I'm sure there are boards about Vegas. But I decided to combine them. Both of them are in competition with other tourist spots like Disney and both of them offer great value and fun for the money. My site is:

www.vegascruisevacation.com - Index


Both of my sites are still under construction buy my Vegas one is only a few days old and I've not got all the sections put up yet.

I am going to run both of my sites as family friendly. No political talk and no hot topic talk (oil drilling etc...). My sites are for fun and entertainment, for asking questions and learning and general conversation.

And of course I invite everyone here to visit the sites if you are interested in parks in the Midwest or cruising/Vegas.

[Tyler90AZ]

Good job on the forums man! However, you need some meat to your site, write articles about various topics and link to them from a homepage. It is very hard to get a forum established. That is why it is pertinent you draw people to your site. Also make sure you submit your website to Google search.

[Tyler90AZ]

Wow, I was searching google for various topics relating to midwest parks and your high up on the list. How did you do that? Did you utilize keywords? I am really surprised it how quick, I guess you found a good niche.

[pam]

I'm missing something. I googled midwest national parks and midwest parks and I couldn't find these websites. At least not on the first 3 pages.

[Tyler90AZ]

Add discuss or forums to that and it will be on first page.

[HoosierGuy]

When I punch in midwest parks I don't find my site, at least not in the first four or five pages.
But when I punch in midwest parks talk or discussion I come up at or near the top.

I'm not sure how it go so high so quick. From what I understand, you are listed by how many sites link to your site. But I don't have my site link on too many other sites.

[pam]

That would be why then. Most wouldn't punch in discuss or talk when googling. Most peope would just google something like midwest parks or national parks in the midwest.

[HoosierGuy]

I punched in "midwest state parks" and my site came up on the fifth page, right above the midwestern governors association.

I say not bad considering it's only been online for two weeks and It's my first site.

Yeah, I need content. I try to post on it every day and I have about six books from the library on state parks in the Midwest.

[pam]

I took a look at your parks website. I think you have a good foundation. New websites don't happen overnight. It's a lot of work. There isn't much out there as far as midwest parks so I think it's something that could really be useful if some really good content is continually added.

[pam]

One thing I found helpful when I developed my own website was having it "ok'd" by Norton Security. People then know it's been checked out. For example if you google ldsplace you'll see a green "ok." It's one of the things I look for when googling so that I know the site has at least been checked out for viruses etc.