Canadian Hummer Club Forums

Hello all,
 
If you are not aware, Roy has handed me the reigns to the site/club and with my marketing/web development background I am hoping to breath new life into the site/forums.
 
I believe we can leverage off the come back of the Hummer brand as well.
 
Currently the forums are closed to public, meaning you have to have an account in order to see the forums and read the posts. I feel like this was not an issue originally back in the hay day of internet forums.. However with social media now adays forums are having a much harder time to compete and even the giants like Pirate4x4 etc are becoming dull and inactive.
 
I feel like opening the forums up to public to read will help with SEO(search engine optimization) as well as entice people to register in order to post/comment on topics they find interesting.
 
I am still thinking about keeping various forums protected/hidden from the public view.. but I believe the tech forums should be displayed since that is the most common things people search for is how to fix issues they are having with their vehicle. If we can get some search engines crawling on those posts I believe we have a fighting chance on bring this forum back to life again.. likely will not be what it once was atleast until the new Hummer is launched... but should add some activity to it.
 
Any suggestions/comments will be greatly appreciated.

Appreciate your efforts and ideas. Agreed it would be great to see this forum come alive again.


Hats off for you taking this on

Agreed as well, when people do google searches, they'd find way to the forums here.

Most likely would want to ask questions as well as they would obviously be searching

Great to hear, I am going to be slowly restructuring the forums as I get.
 
Also does anyone on here use a program, application or website to track maintenance/modifications to their truck? If one was built(Web Application accessible by Desktop and mobile apps) would you use it?

I think the main user would be mechanics listing all repairs .If the owner would let them. Not sure how many individuals would do this...some repairs will never be listed...self errors.

Buyer's guides, classifieds and repair how to's are the common search items I can think of for public interest.


I'm part of one other automotive forum that's still very busy and a lot of the traffic I see, is for those topics.

Roy: Yes, I do not think there will be enough Hummer users alone for it.. So I am going to build it to be open to all vehicles - makes, models, types(atv, boats, etc.) . It will allow you to track your maintenance, parts, serial numbers(if it gets stolen) etc etc.. I just think starting off with a smaller group e.g. Hummer owners to test, provide feedback etc will be good. 
 
Wideload: Yes, that is what I am hoping for if we open the forums up to Search Engines when people are looking for buyers guides, classifieds, how to's etc they will hopefully be greeted with our forum and hopefully push more people here. 

We need to embrace the Humvees crowd, lots and lots of them coming in. I'll soon own 4 and my friend down the street will own 3. Our issues are definitely parts. So an active parts for sale category will help us for sure. Not only that, the WTB category, I could help out. I litterly go to the US every 2 weeks to pick up parts(I live in kingston and have a couple of mailing addresses at the border) and can bring parts back.

Yes, I will be reworking the forums so that all H1 specific forums etc will be inclusive to HMMWV since they are very similar.