Lots of New Registrants Coming On

[Jigman13]

I know that 2 other boards were recently purchased in the last 6 months. They are now swamped with horrible advertising posts and animated ads--it's a shame, but web traffic is a commodity. Apparently the targeted audience--fisherman--wasnt really taken into consideration when the ad-heads put their mustard together b/c the ads they're posting are waaaay off target. And I'm not talking targeted advertising here, either. The ads I see on those forums arent even remotely close to the Google search history in my cache.

Not to mention it has done 2 things: 1.)p*ssed off loyal members and 2.) diminished the value of of the forum experience.

But money talks, right?

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by NJTOFLA

Greetings guys, new member here. I don't know about any other boards, but personally I just figured that if I can't catch any fish...I might as well at least talk about catching fish!
Not a good season for me this year, hopefully my luck will change after picking up some tips here from you guys.

Welcome NJTOFLA... I'm with you... If I can't be out fishing the next best thing is reading and talking about it.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by aduma1107

Not sure if this feature was in use when I registered, can't remember. But perhaps look into adding CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") feature when new registrations are being created. CAPTCHAs are used to prevent bots from using various types of computing services or collecting certain types of sensitive information It's where the user need to enter a distorted word. I'm sure we all have seen this before.

Just an idea.

Thanks and we do use CAPTCHA Registration but the a lot of the bots still break it.

[Harpoon]

Hopefully this site can draw in some of the local advertising $'s from the other south jersey site....this way money all stays local. Local BT shop pays NJFishing owner (a local) and then local anglers buy items from local BT and so on. Keeps money locally...not in Canada.

I just visited the other site and every thread has a national advertisement interruption on the second post of every page, looks cheap. The local advertisers are getting shut out which is a shame since I know that website sent a lot of customers to their shops. Hopefully we get some migration over here especially party/charter boats.

If you think jigging is fun in north jersey you should try throwing bucktails or floating spot in the rips this time of year in Cape May!

[SanibelFisher]

Originally Posted by Pennsy Guy

Not sure but another site was recently sold to a Canadian outfit--might have something to do with it--some of the troops aren't too happy...

It is amazing how many people were ticked off by the sale of the BB. Keeping it local is better.

[EBFISHING]

Does anyone know of a similar board that is used in Florida? I would like to find some charter boats running open dates in the Ft Lauderdale area this winter.

[AndyS]

These waters run deep. The Private Message feature on here is the bomb, what you read on here is only HALF of what is going on

[june181901]

Let us get back to the "free beer" post. Where and when?