[Bob Kuczewski]

Hello Fellow Hawks,

The US Hawks has been consistently in the number 2 position when searching Google for "hang gliding association" for over a year now:

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When I first saw us in the number 2 position (almost a year ago), I didn't want to draw much attention to it because Google rankings can be fleeting. But we've been in the number 2 spot fairly consistently for about a year now, and I think it deserves mention.

I want to thank everyone who's helped our visibility by posting links to the US Hawks on their own web sites or listing the US Hawks in their signature lines of forums and on other social media pages. I also want to thank everyone who's contributed to the forum with hang gliding postings. Google ranks sites based on content, and I appreciate everyone who's contributed so much to the hang gliding content of this site. I want to give special thanks to Joe Faust for all the posts regarding the rich history of our sport. I'm sure those postings have helped us quite a bit.

Thanks Joe, and thanks to all members of the US Hawks!!

[SamKellner]

US Hawks Hang Gliding Assn.

[Bill Cummings]

On "bing" I always show the Hawks as first billing.

[Bob Kuczewski]

It's been over a decade now, and U.S. Hawks is still essentially second to USHPA when searching Google for "hang gliding association". However, USHPA is now also showing up as a Facebook page and on the EAA page. So U.S. Hawks is now fourth, but the first 3 are just different forms of "USHPA".

Here are the results:

1. USHPA at https://www.ushpa.org/
2. USHPA at https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aviation-intere ... ssociation
3. USHPA at https://m.facebook.com/ushpafreeflight/
4. US Hawks at https://ushawks.org/

That makes U.S. Hawks the #2 Hang Gliding Association.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Just this morning I decided to search Google for "hang gliding forum". These were the results:

1. hanggliding.org at https://forum.hanggliding.org
2. hanggliding.org at https://www.hanggliding.org
3. U.S. Hawks at https://ushawks.org
4. Oz Report at https://forum.ozreport.com

That makes U.S. Hawks the #2 Hang Gliding Forum.

Note that USHPA (#1 ranked association) doesn't show up as a hang gliding forum. Also note that hanggliding.org (#1 ranked forum) doesn't show up as an association. That makes the U.S. Hawks the highest ranked combined Association/Forum. Thanks to everyone who has helped us!!

[JoeF]

Search the string:
good hang gliding association and forum
and the Nol 1 spot was

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