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I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
Having a header name like [Solved] is very helpful, because you can do a search on Sonar [Solved] and get a listing of all these solutions, which you can then scan to see if any pertain to you. This is why I've been changing things like SOLVED! to [Solved] - to make it easier to search.
It occurred to me that there are some great tips in here that people contribute, so I think it would make sense to add [Tip] in the header so a search would find them. Any comments?
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 12:33:33
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It may help when scanning the first few pages but when searching with Google neither "solved" or "tip" would be in my search string. It may be a good case for a separate Tips forum. Wasn't that the intent of the Techniques forum below? Tips are going to get buried fast in this forum.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 12:39:11
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Possibly a sticky for TIPS in the X-Series Forum?
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 12:42:31
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☄ Helpfulby mike_mccue 2014/06/24 15:03:16
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I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all? Technically, the plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all". 
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 12:54:18
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Rather than[Solved] I my view is we should be clicking the answer button.
The advantage is we know what the answer was, and it shows an answered icon, and no doubt one day you could sort by this (if you can't already).
Also we can add Tags such as TIP. I think these are more useful than cluttering up subject titles. They get displayed in the list as well. Tags are the real way to categorise things and work far better with search engines. For those who don't know OP's can add tags below the main body of text. Forum admins can also edit these.
Cheers..
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 14:05:15
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It may help when scanning the first few pages but when searching with Google neither "solved" or "tip" would be in my search string. It may be a good case for a separate Tips forum. Wasn't that the intent of the Techniques forum below? Tips are going to get buried fast in this forum.
Well I'm not an expert on search engines so I don't know if tags and marking something as "answered" show up in Google, but if they do, that would do the job. For now, if I enter: Sonar forum solved into Google and then click on More results from forum.cakewalk.com, I get pages and pages of various solutions. I'm not thinking of this so much as a way to help when scanning the front page, but for locating a complete listing of solved and tip topics. I posted this as a question because I'm hoping that people with more savvy about search engines than I have can propose the best possible solution for essentially using the forum as an easily searchable knowledge base for solutions.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 14:16:53
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Andertoninto Google and then click on More results from forum.cakewalk.com, I get pages and pages of various solutions.
[Tip]  In Google, you can just add site:forum.cakewalk.com to your search.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 14:24:14
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I know search engines like a user. It would depend on what is driving the search, in my case, forum searches are usually to find similar questions whether there is a solution or not. I use a portion of the problem, maybe a year, SONAR version or CW employee or user name. I rarely use a search engine to generate a list of interesting topics to read.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
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☄ Helpfulby ShellstaX 2014/06/24 17:24:11
Craig Please do a search for "bugs" or something in the top right corner of this page. Then click View More at the bottom of the search results. When you see the results. On the left hand side you see you can sort filter by "answered" and "helpful reply". So this is extremely useful and is the ideal way :). You can't do this with subject titles. In regards to tagging please go to X3 Forums Home Page: http://forum.cakewalk.com/SONAR-X-Series-f57.aspxHover over the sticky post "How to contact Cakewalk Directly" and observe tags appear such as "Tech Support". If you click on them it shows all relevant posts that have been tagged as such (right now it is zero BTW so not a great example). So imagine a tag that states "Tip". You just click on "Tip" and it shows all the tips. In regards to Google, Google indexes these tagged hyperlinks to give more relevant and better results, tags definately help for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for any search engine including the one built in with the site. Later on Cakewalk could add a Tag cloud as well: http://www.aspplayground.net/community/Smart-Tags-Plain-old-tags-b406720.aspx If you change the subject title so lots of them have similar keywords you will reduce the relevancy for search in google as well as the hyperlinks will change which google also looks at (see in red), as opposed to tagging which increases it: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Im-starting-to-add-Tip-to-headers-where-appropriate-OK-with-yall-m3056944.aspx What I mean about relevancy is that when you search in google, for instance, it is far more likely to show relevant results when you do a search, that is appropriate to your search. I'm also from a web development background and we don't stop talking about SEO and searching. Hope this is useful... Cheers...
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 15:00:01
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I'm from a web development background and we don't stop talking about SEO and searching.
Hope this is useful...
Very much so!! I'll be pursuing additional education with the Cakewalk web folks next time I'm up there. As this pretty much answers my question I delete this thread later unless anyone else has more comments. Thanks all.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 17:34:25
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If you delete the thread we'll lose Alexs' very helpful [Tip].
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 19:28:30
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Great idea, it'll be easy to search for tips by searching for [Tip]!
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/24 19:52:39
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Fine with me. I like tips :)
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/26 08:26:22
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Been meaning to suggest a "Craig's Stuff" sticky for the X forum. And maybe the techniques forum. If you are to be here as much as you have been of late a separate main forum would be best.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/26 08:36:47
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I would simply tag "Tip" and then "Craig" (or maybe you can search by user name). See my last post for the full detail. With tags there are endless posibilities when categorising.
I was also wondering if we have far too many forums here and stickys. Maybe that's for another thread.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/26 10:49:42
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Fur Shur too many stickys at top of the X forum.
After deleting most of the old and irrelevant items, add the Craig sticky that would just be a link to a Craigs's Stuff forum. And each of Craig's posts could have a link to the forum.
And the world would be a better place.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/26 11:20:43
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Well you could have one sticky post that displays an index of relevant tags to click on including tags relevant to Craig's postings. Better still have tag cloud. We have too many forums that's what tags are for.The other way is much higher maintance, and far less SEO friendly .Personally I don't care where or from whom tips come from, as long as they are good.
If we want to get into compiling personal tips written by just one person, well that's blogging really.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/27 13:45:26
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I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
Are they any fees associated with this?
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/28 00:22:26
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Tips are always gratefully accepted. As to a separate thread for my stuff, I do write up the major ones for the Cakewalk blog. In fact I think another article is going to be published Monday on mixing kick and bass, based on the EB 5 Expansion Pack. It will also have freebies! Five TH2 bass amp sims and two ProChannel presets for bass.
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/28 00:41:55
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I like the idea. It would help with my new thread about getting a midi drum file to individual audio tracks through Addictive Drums *COUGHshamelessCOUGHplugCOUGH* 
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Re: I'm starting to add [Tip] to headers where appropriate. OK with y'all?
2014/06/28 00:48:43
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There is very little difference between fee and free nowadays.
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