This is a topic i seem to be well versed in despite my lack of even wanting to know this stuff.SEO (search engine optimization) im sure in your search for finding ways to get more traffic you have run into this or  maybe even have a great amount of knowledge in it. Either way i would say dont waste your time and energy in trying to learn about it. Its basically a cheat when it comes down to it. Google and other search engines do a fine job of searching out sites, when you do massive seo it tries to up the page rank and it can do that quite well also. The problem with it is as soon as the search engines get modified to compensate for such seo practices the sites that were way up top fall way down low. In some cases maybe even blacklisted so the google bot wont be back again. :(There is no replacement for content, eventually this site will be ranked in search engines as it should be. with the amount of relevant content it has. So stay focused on what you seem to be best at and dont worry about the rest. It will all be history shortly.lolHaving outside links to your website will help the most. Try doing link exchanges with other relevant sites. all they can say is no, but all it does it help both sites. but dont let it take time away from actually adding content to the site.be thankful for the bots, even though they are spammers they are another member signed up, while this doesnt do anything other than say we have XXX members and so many topics and this many people online. that plays a big factor on if people will join or not.So if they spam delete it and ban them but they also may be the cause of someone deciding to join or not to join. Nobody goes to a cemetary to find friends or advice.So although it would be great to have a perfect forum with no spam members and ever person active, but that probably wont happen. Even members who have many great posts might become stagnant or just burnt out on it for long periods of time. this is really quite normal.Word of mouth, bumper stickers, signs in areas like schools that are eye catching, and most of all, what do you have here that historyforums doesnt? the content is everything, and having unique content is what will do the best for you. (even though most sites will steal it right away)The most important thing that will be tested by this website is you, your longevity and your ability to persevere when it isnt becoming all you hoped for, and all you thought it might, when it lets you down and all hope for it seems lost, hopefully a revelation will come for it, maybe it will be you.

Digging in our own backyard one day my family found a license plate from 1910. Sure its not BC but it was a neat thing to find in the city of saginaw MI

I didnt know that there was a debate on what it actually was. Bacillus yersinia pestis was my understanding of it.

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be looked at from a different perspective also.Approximately 214,000 people died from the dropping of what was called “little boy” on Hiroshima and “Fat man” on Nagasaki.It was a small percentage of the over 56,000,000 people killed in WWII. It was the catalyst that causes Japans surrender and helped to end the war.So it's easy to look at it from the standpoint of a massive amount of people killed by WMD, but how long would Japan have fought on if it weren't for those bombs, how many more than that number of people would have suffered and died. That would almost surely have been more than 214,000. Japan had lost 2,000,000 lives in WWII so although 240,000 is certainly a lot of people, its even a small percentage of their total losses.