We lost Devil's Advocate

[Masato]

He's got a point ya know

^ lol, that he does :oops:

So what are we gonna do about it? If any of you cats would like to see this place grow, why not put some shoutouts on those big busy forums you speak of?

Canuckster, have you ever tried wrangling up some RB'ers? Any of you OG guys care to put up an invitation somewhere? Sherdoggers?

In my experience, if I do this myself it is quite frowned upon (Bloody Elbow banned me for 1 thread lol), so I don't do this anymore. But I don't think it would come off the same if others posted similar stuff.

So pitch in, nossa familia! Lets do a little collective marketing blitz! Like I said the book should be out soon, will keep going on my comic and trying to keep quality posts coming. I've been pondering a few photoshops as well which always seem to get some short-term buzz.

Just be realistic as to what you are promoting... ie; don't sell Superbowl Tickets to a Punk rock show, know what Im sayin'? :)

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

Also thanks to DA for his honesty. Sometimes we all need to hear this.

[Masato]

PS: good things come to those with patience...

I see nothing wrong with building a good archive/library of quality threads until we get our break... Even if they don't bloom immediate and grand discussions, they are there for later for anyone who chooses. Like I said before almost none of these thread are watered-down with trolls and useless keyboard-warrior bantering. We're building a small treasure trove of valuable/cool stuff, its kind of cool to have the back pages full of just good content and not a lot of blab or empty threads.

This in itself I think is very cool. Different forums are good for different things. If you want up-to the minute MMA info, obviously OG is best. For cutting edge CT ponderings, its hard to beat EY. This place hopefully has a different value, the goal is to create a slightly different vibe. Its not supposed to be another OG, or EY, or RB... We are building a strong foundation for something more unique and positive/original.

If people see this and can tap into it, I think this is how it will grow the best.

[Canuckster]

Fuck the RB, it's shite now.

[Masato]

^^ hey, all the more reason to give the good posters somewhere else to migrate to

[Devil's Advocate]

Spreading the URL via other forums and social media, is deifinitely a good thing to do. If you promoted it the right way through Facebook, you'd get a lot of new members. The idiots would soon lose interest and the genuine people would stay.

Google search is worth so much to a grass roots forum like this. Use the evil giant to your own advantage, you think by not allowing Google and Bing bots, that you are invisible to the NSA? I doubt it, so fuck it, exploit the system for what it's worth.

If you make topical thread titles about the current news item of the day, you'll attract a lot of hits.

Just some thoughts, I will always hang out here and shoot the shit, but i'd be happy to make some kick ass threads if I thought they were being picked up by Google search.

[Masato]

Thanks DA

Lets experiment then; I just activated ALL 'bots'.

And just FYI, I found a nifty little tool in the admin panel where I could see info for traffic.

According to this (just the past 7 days - and with NO bots)... in 1 week we are averaging around 550 views per day.

This is not bad imo... much more than I guessed.

We just need to get some of these lurkers to register! :)
(I'm lookin at YOU, pal)

SAVE FERRIS

[Edge Guerrero]

- Lurkers, feel free to register and interact what us.

[Som-Pong]

Yes. Interact with us.

[Masato]

Ah, Brasil...

[Devil's Advocate]

Those stats are interesting.

I don't think we're making Google search yet, but i'll check there every few days to see if it changes.

The easiest way is to copy and paste a thread title into google search, it should come up virtually at the top of the results. At the moment, Google isn't finding the thread title.