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I guess I've only got a few pages so it's a lot easier and spamming your forums doesn't seem to make sense (nor be a good thing for your users).

If I wasn't running on github pages and had access to some form of server side scripting, I'd have used the referral information to only show to search engine visitors that entered relevant keywords. Are you a PHP programmer? If not I could probably knock something up that you could easily include wherever and would then only show to people who searched and your regular blog traffic would be unaffected.

Github blew up earlier, so wasn't able to push this when I made it, have now: http://yams.in

The pop-in appears after ~ 4 seconds and hides for 90 days on close through setting a cookie. Happy with the description and link? Feel free to steal whatever you like of it https://gist.github.com/1770742

You also just reminded me, I should probably update the news on there, a whole version came out since then

Hi Darren,

Just to get the one elephant out of the room, when I said keyword stuffing, I meant posts like this which are a goldmine for search terms. Search engines don't give a monkeys about meta tags these days! The posts are actually a very clever way of

I came up with YAMS mostly from lack of any imagination and seeing similar for other products, many years ago I was running forums on YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) which became SMF and occasionally have to write YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) and a Google at the time came up with nothing so I used it, this was in the planning phases which was probably even before November 2010

I'm in Surrey (born and raised in Kent tho, nearly went to UKC as well) what made you think Kent?

Most YAMS based servers don't have any link to the name nor advertise the fact that they are running (unless the admins don't change the default MOTD) so they themselves shouldn't compete although that does actually make me question a new feature I was going to add, I hadn't thought about the implications. As I give all YAMS users a free *.yams.in dynamic DNS, I thought about adding an opt-in server list to the site, but that's going to directly compete for the same search terms unless I call it something else or host on a different domain.... will require some thinking how to solve that! Maybe we could discuss that and your other plans on email? I really don't want to do something that would affect your userbase, and glad I thought of possible implications now rather than after I'd done it. My email is me<at>richardbenson.co.uk

I've gone off on tangent there, what I was saying is that no YAMS powered server should compete with you on the name, beyond the domain name if they are using the provided dynamic DNS. YAMS itself does not wrap any of the network communication (unlike a lot of other server software) it just manages the java processes for you, so there is no way of determining if a server is running YAMS, you'll just see a vanilla or bukkit server. I'd bet that the other servers called YAMS don't actually use the software.

I think cross-linking is best for both of us (and the people we both set out to help), my top search terms are: "yams minecraft", "yams" and "yet another minecraft server" which could easily be for either of us!

I'll add something to my site so you can see the sort of thing I mean.

Walls of text often come across sounding douchey, I didn't intend that, nor do I have anything against you or your service, more than anything I just believe in my little project and genuinely think it's the easiest way to run a small minecraft server.

Thanks,

Richard