yeah I'm getting that impression. Which is one of the things that makes me kind of nervous about surfing and courting them -- our site is not like the spaces that those readers/bloggers frequent
so i'm worried that our site would scare or overwhelm them
my (admittedly limited) experience is that most of the regular posters on the mom's blogs and forums know each other fairly well, and keep up to date on what is going on in each others' lives
maybe one approach would be to contact the administrators of some of those sites, and ask if they would be supportive of us opening a forum thread to introduce our site and solicit feedback as to whether it would sound like a useful tool to their community
whattoexpect.com is another big one
well, actually, I don't know if it is big. I just assume because the books are really popular
Hello! I'm cautious about inviting users from other established sites because of the big difference in style between SE and other less 'formal' sites. But that's also the great thing about SE; it's not like all the rest.
I'm concerned about that, too, which is why I think it would be better if we could present the concept of our site within their community first, to solicit feedback and ensure that they understood the differences
the only downside i see is that you only need one, so it would kind of be underappreciated by any user who already has one. Not to mention the experts that we want to attract who aren't actively parenting
Other ideas have included appearing at parenting conferences, giveaways at mommy-and-me or daddy-and-me events, contests, and cross-marketing against a few other places.
@Squidly We actually are against parenting Mags because they're 90% ads as is, and few parents read those even in waiting rooms. =/
We've also talked about chatting with the admins/mods at Cafemom, The Bump, and Babycenter's online communities and having their comms do a feedback evals on the site.
@Squidly No worries! you didn't know, it's not a big thing. We talked about it here in chat as well as in real life with my team/manager. Magazines are generally not the option we want given the signal-to-noise ratio present in them. We also think that money could be put to better uses.
My only idea is some kind of search engine optimisation - seeing if question titles can meet what people type into search engines. I'm not sure if that's possible with SE ways of doing things. But then maybe tags could be edited to match search key words?
@Squidly I'm a Stack Employee assigned to promote Parenting (and DIY) for Le Future.
@DanBeale We've debated doing that. I ran a check on the site and we usually sort of come up in results. the title edit that @TorbenGundtofteBruun and @Beofett did a couple of weeks ago should help that; we need to give Google another week or so to update its cache and then we can run another test
