07 Stats

[GrandOldTeam]

For June we had 32k visits (1565919 hits) Our highest yet, great achievement, especially for pre-season!

Keep it up boys and girls

 

[FCConnecticut]

I did the dmoz.org registration, ultimately helps with 'search engine optimization'.

 

[SuitsBlue]

Already tried google news. Top suggestion though, am impressed. They wont consider us until we have around 1k members lads (or been in established longer, we're still very new).

invent a few.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I did the dmoz.org registration, ultimately helps with 'search engine optimization'.

Whats that mate?

And suits, invent a 'few'??? would take me forever

Theres actually a mod that allows you to create fake users/post counts/thread counts etc...

 

[SuitsBlue]

"Biggus Dickus - joined february 3rd - posts 3 - close friend of chicoazul "

 

[chicoazul]

Theres already about ten Keith_Shabs, and that burns me head out.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Where are the referrals coming from Danny?

Everywhere from newsnow to the likes of http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.sports.soccer.everton/ (who actually have an update with just a url to the site )

A few others;

http://www.toffeeweb.com/fans/online/webboards.asp
http://www.keioc.net/index.php
http://www.thestreetend.co.uk/efclinks.html
http://everton.rivals.net/default.asp
http://jwned.com/606/viewtopic.php
http://boards.rivals.net/default.asp
http://www.toffeemies.org/Linkkikokoelma.htm
http://uk.f864.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php

 

[FCConnecticut]

Whats that mate?

dmoz.org is a Yahoo of sorts except hand edited and verified by real people. A big driver for Google spiders. I just submit the URL, name and a brief description and after is is verified it will get in the directory.

I work in IT these days and do a lot of web work on the side and have a fair bit of experience at improving sites search results.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Do the ODP still accept submissions? I remember them being very slooooow for a few years now.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

dmoz.org is a Yahoo of sorts except hand edited and verified by real people. A big driver for Google spiders. I just submit the URL, name and a brief description and after is is verified it will get in the directory.

I work in IT these days and do a lot of web work on the side and have a fair bit of experience at improving sites search results.

Thanks a lot mate. Our RSS is http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/external.php?type=rss&forumids=6

 

[FCConnecticut]

Has that feed been registered with any RSS directory sites? We live in a Web 2.0 world now!

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Just NewsNow really and few small unofficial sites use it.

 

[FCConnecticut]

Set up a feed burner page then put a 'subscribe' link on the home page to it. It will have a ton of badges to make it easy for people to add the feed to most anything.

Register the feed with rssfeeds.com (I'll track down more)

Make a iGoogle widget of your feed and share it out.

Do you guys have the CaRP plugin running? Use it to add that custom Google news search I set up to the home page to add some more dynamic content (sans TW) which is not only great for the forum users but the viral linking to respected sites boost you in searches as well.

I'll get my blog set up for the podcast soon and run your feed as well and have a blog entry covering the site. In the end it'll take a few months but the spiders and bots will start piecing it together and we'll drive more traffic.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Am on it mate. Cheers for the info, not to good with my RSS yet.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Grandoldteam

How do i get all them badges so people can easily subscribe?

 

[Cal]

Great news lol

 

[FCConnecticut]

Am on it mate. Cheers for the info, not to good with my RSS yet.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Grandoldteam

How do i get all them badges so people can easily subscribe?

Put a 'Subscribe' link on the home page and have it point to the Feedburner page. Or you can use the HTML code from their Chicklet Chooser.

Let me go through one of my feedburner pages and review what needs to be set on the page itself to make it HTML friendly plus some other goodies.

Looks like you got Browser Friendly set and SmartFeed. Be sure and fill out Feed Image and Title/Description burners. I'd change the link to the home page in lieu of the forums too.

Enable Email Subscription and PingShot in the Publicize tab and turn on Ping-o-matic and newsgator plus add Google Blog Search ping service from the drop down. PingShot is a big deal as it really spreads the word that the site exist.

You now have the option to make the feed available to partners via HTML (BuzzBoost) or JS with Headline animator where you can create several different sizes and styles.

Here is a whole Everton tab of Web 2.0 goodness you can add to a custom google home page.