Great idea Taqueme. Since your gathering will mainly be attended by individuals who are local, you may want to get in touch with the local Meet-Up groups in your area and let them know about your site.

There are lots of other way to promote the site too.

Thank you. I tried finding an Ohio chapter but many seem to be defunct. The web sites I\'ve visited seem to have information from early 2008. Nothing recent. This tells me it isn\'t really used very much. *sigh*

I\'ve been working with 19Dave53, he is working with the NF chapter in his area to help promote this event. Do you know of some other ways?

I sent your website URL to Amy Kast. I think she runs a support group in the Columbus area. I know she does a lot with CTF and the endurance team that I run with. So hopefully she can help us get the word out. I really hope we can go, but sadly it is going to depend really strongly on having the money to do it. And the kids will be back in school at that time. But still hoping I can come. This is a wonderful idea. Thank you for coming up with it.

I was surprised that I wasn\'t able to find any groups on meetup.com for Neurofibromatosis. You may want to start one.

You can also submit your site to all the social bookmarking sites and uses keywords related to Neurofibromatosis group in Ohio in your titles and descriptions. That way, when those listings get indexd by the search engines, they\'ll match for those terms.

I think you can also ping the urls of your listing on the bookmarking site to get the search engines there faster.

You can also go to social networking sites, write a story that links to your website, so you have some back links, stories to be indexed by the search engines and links for users to follow to your website.

After you do that, you can also social bookmark the social network posts. The SEO options are endless.

Another thing you may want to consider is getting your own domain and I\'m not just saying that because of the video I recently created.

I\'m definitely not an SEO expert, but Ive been researching it lately and it seems the search engines prefer to index domains that are only 1 website. For example, your website is actually just a subdomain on the domain name yolasite.com. Spammers like to use these free website services, because they can create a quick site and be gone just as quickly. The search engines want to see commitment on the part of the website owner. If someone throws together a website on a free service, its not seen as being as valuable by the search engines, because theres no long term commitment there.

The search engines dont want to index a website today that will be gone tomorrow, or that wont be updated regularly. Ive had some success with using social bookmarking and networking sites to promote sites before, but when it comes to domains, I always get a dedicated domain. Then you can install a Wordpress blog. The only domains Ive seen success with that are kind of grouped on one domain like your site was with blogger.com. You can either host the blogger blog on your own domain name, which is what I prefer, or you can leave it on their server. Either way, Wordpress and Blogger blogs are free.

Actually I am going to change the site over to my own domain. My main focus was to get it up, tested and running before I changed over. I also need to come up with an appropriate name, which is the biggest challenge. Nothing says failure like a website named "White" and all you talk about is the color blue.

You may want to check out this website for ideas. You can enter keywords and it will give you a list of available domains based on those keywords. You can also change the search parameters to get something close to what you\'re looking for.

http://www.domainsbot.com/

Taqueme,

Did you get my last private message? It said chat is down, but didn\'t know if that included messages too.

If you didn\'t get it, I\'ll post it here.