Treating the forum as a database

Treating the forum as a database A data base is a storage of information, what we do on our post is add to a database But if we were to add a word at the start of each post it could make future searches more efficient / Using the word FACTS-M : for any subject that is related to a subject of Metal . / Using the word RECREATIONAL-NN: for any subject that is Not Needed for future searches of metal., having the word FACTS-M: some place would act as follows .Say you wanted to do a search on grinder blades. If each member is diligent in doing what I said, your search would go as follows FACTS-M: grinder blades , the results would be from posts that have the word FACTS-M: grinder blades Probably using the title or tags area each time would do the trick
Useing the + reply to thread red button instead of using the reply at bottom of post is a good start.

I use the following formula when doing specific Google searches on various sites. IE- "site:scrapmetalforum.com grinding wheels" I've found some of the sites I frequent have awful search engines so I use Google to overcome that!

google is and will always be better at searching. You cant match a billion dollar searching company with a few hundred dollar or even free forum site.

No matter how good a search feature is if the poster misspells a key word in the title listing it reduces who may find it.

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Originally Posted by Copper Head

Treating the forum as a database A data base is a storage of information, what we do on our post is add to a database But if we were to add a word at the start of each post it could make future searches more efficient / Using the word FACTS-M : for any subject that is related to a subject of Metal . / Using the word RECREATIONAL-NN: for any subject that is Not Needed for future searches of metal., having the word FACTS-M: some place would act as follows .Say you wanted to do a search on grinder blades. If each member is diligent in doing what I said, your search would go as follows FACTS-M: grinder blades , the results would be from posts that have the word FACTS-M: grinder blades Probably using the title or tags area each time would do the trick
Useing the + reply to thread red button instead of using the reply at bottom of post is a good start.

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You can add tags to each post. Tags are specifically there for searching and for search engines to know whats in the post.

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Originally Posted by Mod

You can add tags to each post. Tags are specifically there for searching and for search engines to know whats in the post.

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I was just going to post the same thing about the tags. I don't know if we can do that on this forum.

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Originally Posted by little726

I was just going to post the same thing about the tags. I don't know if we can do that on this forum.

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Sure can.