I wanted to apologize for joining the ranks of "no see em's". It seems that it's all I can do here lately is to update the fishing articles a couple of times a week. I'll get back in the swing here when I'm able to get out more often but I've just been swamped with work.

I also wanted to let captains know that we appreciate your fishing reports and hope that you're seeing a little traffic from them (if you have a link to your site in your signature file). It also helps from a search engines perspective as it's one more way that they can find your site from a related page on a quality site.

In doing the SEO for the site we try to target specific pages for specific search terms. For example, if you search Tampa Bay Redfish Charters we feel that it's more appropriate for a visitor to land on the sub page (a listing of local captains who specialize in redfish), than our home page, though it's a good destination as well. It takes awhile longer to get those pages up there but it's well worth the wait for everyone in my opinion (search engines, visitors, our site).

In that vain, if you search Tampa Bay Fishing Reports in Google you'll see our home page at the bottom of page one and the fishing reports section in this forum near the bottom of the next (at the time of this post). We expect that as the fishing reports section gets more traction from captains it will generate more traffic and be a better target for search engines. (We'd like to see the fishing reports forum at the bottom of page one as visitors are closer to what they're looking for)

Either way, those visits and bots go somewhere... your reliable reports are appreciated and we have no problem in sending both in your direction through the link in your signature file.

Thanks, TBC