ok i,m just going by when i have gamed for clans in the past we have done a deal where we put a link to there site for free goodies or discounts on there products,sorry if i have been misunderstood on what i was trying to explain 
It is not a clan or anything.
What you basically said here is still sponsorship.
Not sure where you ave got this mindset from about tekheads and these forums?
@Nige
Will you guys re-evaluate the need if Tek stuff if they just continue not to use it? Only saw one post every now and again from a new user with an order problem who made a few posts then never stayed on the forums. At first Andy from Tek did post but not really much from any of them, As mentioned just seemed they using forums for traffic and all really fussed about.
@Tekguys
That not really having a go at you guys, I am in the web industry so I know how things work and from a client company why they would want to do something and have something if they know something about the web.
Of course you want the association to help your business and why not, but especially now there is even less association from you guys now its in a new place I think a bit more of an effort seen to use it would be appreciated.
@Everyone else -
An online business is driven by the number of visits. Getting the traffic is of Massive importance, once there getting them there and making an order seem a very painless and simple thing is important.
It's of huge importance. Forums area a great way for link building, just as blogs are. Tekheads if they want traffic can look at going down the blog route if they want.
When I talk about traffic it is not just about people coming here then seeing Tek. Bots will go through the forums and they LOVE dynamic, always updated content on a site, why forums and blogs and well made sites with that in mind do well. So a bot going through these forums (with nice SEO positives created, like friendly URL's) will pick up on the tek links, other sites linking to threads here etc. If you had facebook like options here as well and the forums on facebook it is a lot of link building for Tekheads.
This in turn helps their ranking as even today the relevant external links is probably the biggest factor to have a good ranking.
Google addwords works but you pay a lot of money for it, same with other similar online advertising.
I get Tekheads understand this to some degree and know the value of this. I have always got the impression that they really never used it at their support forums or showing off products. You had the early stuff but it soon went quite dead in that section. The decision to move it at the bottom from the top for example happened.
It is a value to the company so if they got support stuff or a section to share when products are in stock or have special offers shown etc it really needs to be used properly. If they are not looking to have a ticket system on their site and use this for support they need to get that driven more then it is. Guys here happy to help as free support for tekheads - why not, lots of us here like to help people where we can.
But your getting traffic, link building, SEO for your site and business, free support staff, free advertising space basically now its not on tekheads servers.....
I just would either like to see it being used more by them and for them to appreciate that or b it dumbed down.
I can give Nige some php code which would find all tekheads.co.uk links and add a no-follow for example
