Well duh Wolfgang. When you enter "Mudcat Cafe" it comes right up no matter when you enter it.

I stand by what I said. When the keywords "American folk music" are used in a Google search, Mudcat doesn't show up. Period. End of story.

You can continue to try and play the manipulation game Wolfgang, but I see what you're doing. And now, you can play with yourself all you want, because I'm done with it. It just ain't that big a deal.

As to the "what does it matter?" question--I'd disagree that non-profit status renders the question meaningless. If you are trying to provide a service, either at a non-proft site or a commercial one, you do want people to be able to find you and avail themselves of it.

I would suggest that people with an interest in American folk music, rather than British folk music, would conceivably use the words "American folk music" to do a keyword search at Google. As McGrath pointed out, many truly rich and wonderful sites come up as results. Mudcat isn't one of them, and I thought that was odd, given the sites popularity for lyric searches, and given the number of links Mudcat has from other sites I visit.

Perhaps it is just because the newer sites offer so much more, ie the Library of Congress American Folklife sites, the Contemplator site, North American Folk Alliance, etc. all have good sites for American folk music. This site remains pretty Brit-centric, and has little blues content compared to other blues sites, so it probably makes sense that Mudcat doesn't show up anymore in keyword searches for "American folk music" considering how little has been added to the non-DT part of the site over the years. I don't count the forum as a resource really. Too hard to search, and the information given is too often wrong, especially if you are doing academic research. If you had to choose between Mudcat and American Folklife, or even Mudcat and Contemplator to use as your sources, I think it is pretty obvious you wouldn't choose Mudcat.