Ah, you can always count on harpgirl.

Yes Harpy, I did say I would never do this. I guess the short answer is that I changed my mind.

McGrath: I noticed last month that Google was picking up stuff in the forum within days. I was astonished and pleased. I have always made the Mudcat to be a place you could find stuff that you were looking for, and from there you might find people that might just be interested in the same sort of stuff. Seems beautiful to me.

The Google Bots are really amazing. I can see them come through the site in the logs. We keep em' busy here, with our million messages thousands of posts per day, and our incredible network of internal and external links. The Google brain tries to understand it and how it relates to everything else on the net, every day. Sure I'm a nerd, but I think that's pretty cool.

Just checked.
14,975 impressions, 88 Clicks, $16.78.

And I actually worry that if this thing is too much of a success, or more accurately the clickthrough rate is off the curve. That may put us on their radar and jeopardize our (and my) relationship with them.