Picture this example … An Ajay Atul fan, who has just heard a few songs from their latest album on Radio, in his excitement, rushes to Google to find some more info about them, their Discography, their Biography etc ( Keep in mind; for the younger generation books, magazines, newspapers are a secondary source of information… Google stands before all of them ) Too bad … He is disappointed to find scores of irrelevant results listed on the very first page of Google. The reason you may ask ? Well … there is a shortage of sites dedicated to people admired in Maharashtra, on the internet. ( One may have noticed, it is quite the opposite in case of celebrities in South India . I have come across a lot of sites beautifully made and having a huge online fan following dedicated to people they admire 
.) Secondly, there are times when such information is available on the internet, but in a discussion forum of a social networking site like Orkut. Now what happens is that, this content is not searchable on Google and searching inside Orkut, also wouldn’t be that convenient an option ( not many people are aware that it is even possible ). The result is; the already sparsely available information is hidden from the world in a private domain, unsearchable to the world; also resulting in a decrease of Marathi website presence on the Google searches.
The first advantage of a discussion on a MSS Forum would be that it would be Google Searchable. So your post regarding a certain topic will most probably be visible on the very first page of Google, if someone searches for information using the relevant keywords associated with your post.
Secondly, we have given you an option of uploading user generated content on Forums. The upload size limit has been set in such a way that illegal sharing of songs or other copyrighted material is discouraged. So the members of the Forum may share, for example, a poem written by them in the form of a text file.
We would also like to inform members that, the forums are created to provide a platform for discussion on a certain topic and also to document information about certain entities which do not have a website of their own. For example, one would like to post an entry about a small restaurant which serves authentic Non-Veg Marathi food, but doesn’t have a site of its own.
Finally we would like to conclude that – more the discussion on a MSS Forum, more would be the crawling by Google, which would mean more member post visibility and more visibility for MarathiSS, which would further bring in more visibility to all Marathi sites that we are promoting; which ultimately would mean better and more relevant results for our friends looking out for information out there on Google .
PS – The MSS Sangraha has also been planned in such a way that, a description ( in English script ) always accompanies the site listed in a specific category. This would again help in indexing the particular site on Google, especially if all its contents are in Devnagari Script.
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