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    Posted: 25 May 2011 at 6:58am
Just a thought - from a luddite and a technophobe - can the rauk forum be publicised on other wildlife forums / websites etc better than it is already? 
 
looking at the quality of information provided on this forum for herps in the wild, compared with some of the stuff elsewhere (not naming any sites) it seems to me that more people could benefit from coming to this forum.  For example, there's genuine top-notch observations like smooth snake mating balls, scientific debates such as the possibility of grass snakes laying eggs in early spring after autumn mating etc as well as sensible answers to pond problems etc.  I suppose I'm asking if 'rauk' could be a link on other places, though I guess it would have to reciprocate.  We seem to be a friendly, but small group - stuck in the corner of a virtual pub chewing the fat, which is OK, but let's wave our flag some more...
 
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Hi Will

Certainly a fair comment. We don't do too badly (as evidenced by a Google Page Rank of 4) but could do better. Now, as you will all appreciate, my time is limited so actively searching for such other sites falls well outside my available time. 

So, if you, or others, through the forum or through a PM to me would like to let know of other suitable sites I could ask for a reciprocal link with, I will happily approach them.

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Thanks Chris; as always I appreciate all your efforts doing what you do for us!  I was thinking of things like the British Wildlife forum, Wildlife Trusts, ARG-UK (as well as individual ARGs - I know SARG has a direct link to rauk already, for instance).  There's probably more out there - maybe some of the reptile keeping forums which sometimes get questions on wild herps, but then again, it might be that we don't want links with the husbandry side of things, I dunno!
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Hi again Will

I'll have a look at British Wildlife forum and Wildlife Trusts. ARG-UK, as one of our sponsors already has a reciprocal link with us but now that many more local ARGs are getting on line reciprocal links with them would be good. I am not 100% sure about reptile keeping forums although most of them are at least thoroughly well intentioned and it might be valid to exchange links if only to give some of the people who occasionally post questions regarding "pets" on here somewhere to go.

I will gladly listen to views any of you might have on this latter point. I know we have members who are opposed to keeping herps, but many others who became interested in our herps via this route and some who have a foot firmly in both camps (I number myself amongst the latter). So, as I say, views appreciated.

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Hi Chris, thanks for the offer to look into refreshing / updating links.  re the 'pet forums', it's tricky - it could help to redirect people with a captive reptile away from us, and in return point some to us with a wild reptile Q.  However, I guess it could also prompt lots of pet-related enquiries to us, by people adopting a random/scattergun approach to trying to get their pet question answered.  I think on balance I'd be against trying to make a link on those kind of forums, at least for the start, but that's just my view.
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There was a link on our Derbyshire ARG website to the forum which we took down when the forum went down. I re-instated it about a week ago under a more prominent heading.
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that's just the sort of thing I had in mind - thanks Chris!
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