John,
Our site pops right up using Google which is one of the most popular search engines. I don't think we need to spend money on this. Anyone looking for Santana 30/30s can find our site.
If anything, I feel our class should rejoin USSailing ODCC (One Design Class Council) for $75. With that, we get our web site listed with all the other one design classes. Check out http://www.ussailing.org/odcc/ Right now, Santana 30/30 is listed but Mike G. is the only contact which is telephone only. No web site and no email listed for us!
From the US Sailing site:
ODCC Programs & Services
by Patty Lawrence
US Sailing does a multitude of tasks, but basically they can be divided into two categories: committees and councils. Committees provide services. For example, the Racing Rules Committee develops proposals for the rulebook. Councils represent the sailors. The One-Design Class Council-you guessed it-serves the needs of one-design sailors.
ODCC, one of the largest constituencies at US Sailing, represents about 150 classes. If your class is a member of US SAILING, then it is part of ODCC. The primary purpose of ODCC is to encourage the growth of small boat sailing and class racing and to facilitate communication between one-design class associations. Class membership is $75 annually.
Just my 2 cents, --- Mike
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, John Heaney wrote:
> Michael Kirk--
> I received this solicitation from
> http://www.TrafficMagnet.net/. I don't know much about these things,
> but this is supposed to be a cheap way to get our web site listed on a
> whole bunch of search engines. Do these things actually work? Are they
> necessary? Do you think it's a good idea, or just a waste of money?
> I spent a few minutes looking at their web site and determined
> that there are two methods to sign up for the service offered. A
> one-time fee of $60 for a one-time submission of our web site to over
> 300,000 search engines, or a monthly fee of $10 for monthly submissions,
> payable quarterly with cancellation at anytime upon expiration of the
> prepaid quarterly charge. So, it seems to me that the way to go would
> be to sign up for the monthly program, pay the first three months in
> advance as required, and then cancel within the first three months,
> thereby getting our web site submitted three times for half the one-time
> submission fee. Yes? Will this work? Is there anyway to verify that
> this is a legitimate advertising company before we give them a credit
> card number?
> Your thoughts and comments would be appreciated.
> John Heaney
> SPIRIT
> Fleet Captain
Received on Tue Jul 3 15:05:56 2001