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Post by defiant1 on Jan 5, 2012 17:50:30 GMT -5
My advice is to block your IP address from the tracking scripts. You can see where you've visited. Usually the first three numbers will stay the same and the last one might change. If you enter just the first three numbers, i think that acts like a wildcard and blocks the one your internet provider assigns to you. If you access from different IP's, that's fine because it lets you block up to 5 wildcard ranges if I remember correctly. I have to update the range periodically, but it's been a long time. That stops your own visits from showing up on the reports and bumping other users off the last 20 results that show. Another thing, they just rolled out version 5. I prefer the reports on version 3 which is available on a link at the bottom of the page. The only down side is that anyone can see the report. I've reset mine a few times. I've been tempted to reset if again to get a more accurate picture of the new traffic I receive.
Again, running a board is a lot of work. Cyberstrike is right about clearly defining what the board is about. I changed the name of mine to "Life After Comics" when I quit buying comics. In effect, I wanted to send out the message that I'm not buying anything anymore.
You should consider dropping more posts on Twitter using the same keyword strategy I mentioned. Twitter is a great funnel to attract complete strangers that may have common interests. Regular updates make a search engine deem your page more relevant. Search engines spider the web and they know if a web page stays exactly the same from one month to the next. About a month ago Bing spidered my board and triggered about 142 hits on my tracking report.
df1
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 6, 2012 20:54:11 GMT -5
In the last 20 hits, I've deduced that You, Mike, Cyberstrike, and myself returned. We all probably have your board bookmarked. I see two search engine hits. Someone searched for Verotik... a niche.. and your board placed in the top ten on Google with the specific words typed. Another person typed Boston Bruins Comic... again... a niche. How many comic boards are going to have a sports thread on the Boston Bruins?
Here's the surpise to me... it looks like Vikingspawn visited.
Hi Vikingspawn!
I think your board isn't getting traffic because people aren't noticing it's here. Google doesn't see enough unique data here to classify the content as highly relevant on most people's searches.
df1
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Post by G on Jan 7, 2012 13:16:45 GMT -5
In the last 20 hits, I've deduced that You, Mike, Cyberstrike, and myself returned. We all probably have your board bookmarked. I see two search engine hits. Someone searched for Verotik... a niche.. and your board placed in the top ten on Google with the specific words typed. Another person typed Boston Bruins Comic... again... a niche. How many comic boards are going to have a sports thread on the Boston Bruins? Here's the surpise to me... it looks like Vikingspawn visited. Hi Vikingspawn! I think your board isn't getting traffic because people aren't noticing it's here. Google doesn't see enough unique data here to classify the content as highly relevant on most people's searches. df1 Apparently you know Vikingspawn's ip address because he's not a member here or never has been that I know of. I like this extreme tracker better than the one I've been using, but I haven't learned how to properly analyze it yet. Feel free to look and point things out if you want. I have in the past registered this site on search engines. As for content changing, I've always tried to be as broad as I could when it comes to subjects and there are a lot of different subjects on here. The problem is niche usually gets down to the lesser known entities in comics and since we only have 3 or 4 regulars, we aren't getting deep into niche territory. That might have to change in the future. You've always been elbow deep into niche comics and you'll put up comics no one has seen before. Anybody who does a search on that comic will find you at or near the top of the search list because no one else talks about it. I see how that works. As far as aforementioned focus of the board. The board has always been to ramble about any and every subject about comics. That's entirely too broad I know but in truth, that's what it is. I remember in 2007 when I started as Gotta Start Somewhere, the site was NOT about comics and comics was just one of the many subjects on here which also included what I thought at the time was many subjects men would talk about including work, women, sports, hobbies, skills, etc. You correctly pointed out at the time that no one does a search on talking about everything and in the end, you'll cater to noone. I heeded that advice and stuck with what I probably knew the most about and could go deeper into very easily. Comics. So I threw out all the other thread areas and made this a comic's 1st and foremost board with the capability of talking about anything else you wanted to board. This is reiterated on my godaddy billboard site...comiccrack.com. (Which btw, needs plenty of work but I absolutely HATE their editor!!!). I have thought in the past of trying to narrow a focus in comics but it would alienate what I have here. I thought of making a "Charlton Comics Preservation Society" because I truly love collecting old Charlton Comics mainly because they were so discarded and finding ANY in Fine or above is as absolute chore. Your checklist has been invaluable as far as that goes but I don't think it brings me viewers, it brings you viewers. I'd love to build it into this site, but I feel like it would hamper this site. I'd love to turn it into it's own site, but I'm gunshy considering how things have went here. So far this year, nothing newsworthy that I've seen has happened in comics so I haven't posted anything yet. The critique of my board at this time is valuable to me so I'll continue to accept discussion on it as long as it remains constructive. When other things happen elsewhere, I will get to work on it. It's hard to ask people to contribute in some way. They have to be wanting to on their own or enticed by what they already see. I just want to shake off the funk and build a foundation of regulars who will come and contribute, post and add and create discussions. I would be extremely happy with 5-10 regulars. Anytime we've had 5 or 6 in the past, the conversations become more fluid. It's when we drop to the 2-4 range that this board becomes totally dead. 5-6 would make it at least transient. 7-10 to me would be short term ideal. Anything above 10 regulars and it probably approaches self-sufficient. I've always desired a self sufficient board. To me making it in message boards is you can stop posting and your members will keep it going. There was a time or two in years past I seen glimmers of it happening only to fall back into deserted island territory. We are currently at bottom and have been for most of the past year. I would be happy if I could get myself back to optimistic territory.
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 7, 2012 17:29:02 GMT -5
I recognize the domain address that visited and it's Miami. Starbrand and CorvetteJim looked similar on my reports, so it was difficult to tell them apart. BrotherJ's visits look pretty consistent. Your visits show up differently depending upon whether you visit from your phone or not. I lump in all my traffic from the checklists also, so my report isn't just data from the board. My triumphant checklist has it's own tracking script, but that's just because there was one moment where I considered splitting them up. Talk about dead, Triumphant only gets 1-2 visits a day if any. I sometimes forget the list is there just as I forget about my Catfish Comics site.
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Post by G on Jan 7, 2012 21:07:34 GMT -5
A Comic Crack Public Service Announcement...
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 7, 2012 22:04:02 GMT -5
More farting!
df1
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Post by G on Jan 9, 2012 0:08:40 GMT -5
The Election may hinge on my board's outcome!
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 9, 2012 4:05:55 GMT -5
The Election may hinge on my board's outcome! While I'm amused at how offensive and politically incorrect that is, I think it would only deter complete strangers from signing up. Controversy makes people talk, but they need to be invested in conversation already. df1
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Post by G on Jan 9, 2012 8:19:31 GMT -5
Yeah, it was all for fun and not for getting people to come here. I got a little carried away with this one. I didn't post it on other areas like my Twitter or Facebook sites. I was sure that eventually somebody would get pissed. I just took it a little too far. Kept going with it until I was like...okay, that's quite enough. That was actually a bit of work and I used up most of the free points you get when you join. I guess they'll want money now. No thanks. Its a fun experiment, but nothing more. Hopefully they give you free points periodically. I wouldn't mind doing a few more down the road, but I'll never pay for it.
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 9, 2012 18:05:23 GMT -5
Yeah, it was all for fun and not for getting people to come here. I got a little carried away with this one. I didn't post it on other areas like my Twitter or Facebook sites. I was sure that eventually somebody would get pissed. I just took it a little too far. Kept going with it until I was like...okay, that's quite enough. That was actually a bit of work and I used up most of the free points you get when you join. I guess they'll want money now. No thanks. Its a fun experiment, but nothing more. Hopefully they give you free points periodically. I wouldn't mind doing a few more down the road, but I'll never pay for it. I never saved anything when I was making mine and I'd download the work in progress with a Firefox plugin, so it wasn't branded with their logo. I think they've wised up to people like me. It consumed most of my free time when it autosaved once. I forget what happened to make it do that. I don't go back anymore. I'd never actually pay to use their service. Go sign up for the service again with a free webmail address if you need to make more videos. It was fine for playing around. df1
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