NWIndianNation01;495657 wrote:Ummm...it is for sure down...YOUR main area...SERIOUS BUSINESS isn't moving near as fast as it was....there are points throughout the day where it is downright dead. I truly feel that is because there isn't anything special here to draw people in.... plus the HS sports are dwindling because nobody new is coming in....plus you don't find this site when you search for it from a HS sports standpoint.

Talking about everything and nothing is the same thing...just worded differently. (nothing specific)

Please note, that despite our differences in opinion, we have the same goal.

NWIndianNation01;495680 wrote:Okay, so my motives are selfish...I want people to talk to about HS football...and want to do it on this site. The reason I brought this up to begin with is thus...

This week is Northwest vs Louisville in football. Last year and years past, JJ's would have hundreds of posts on this game alone, and from at least 50 different members. We are obviously no where near that on here. I think there are less than 10 members on that thread on here and it is only on page two of the first thread. Where are all of those potential posters? I know for sure they aren't on JJ's nor on Yappi because those threads are doing just as bad.

Can you imagine the number of people and amount of traffic we could get on here if we promoted to HS sports more?

NWIndianNation01;495680 wrote: This week is Northwest vs Louisville in football. Last year and years past, JJ's would have hundreds of posts on this game alone, and from at least 50 different members. We are obviously no where near that on here. I think there are less than 10 members on that thread on here and it is only on page two of the first thread. Where are all of those potential posters? I know for sure they aren't on JJ's nor on Yappi because those threads are doing just as bad.

sherm03;495866 wrote:So it's not an issue with just this site. Maybe it's just that the number of people that want to talk high school sports on the internet is dwindling. I could see your point if JJs and Yappi are blowing up and we wanted to take some of that traffic from them. But if there's no traffic on the HS sports topics on those sites, and there's none on this site, then it could just be that people have lost interest in it.

Why market this as something that clearly people have a waning interest in?

justincredible;495872 wrote:I changed up the meta tags and site description as an experiment to see if it changes the rankings. We'll see what kind of change in traffic it brings.

sherm03;495866 wrote:So it's not an issue with just this site. Maybe it's just that the number of people that want to talk high school sports on the internet is dwindling. I could see your point if JJs and Yappi are blowing up and we wanted to take some of that traffic from them. But if there's no traffic on the HS sports topics on those sites, and there's none on this site, then it could just be that people have lost interest in it.

Why market this as something that clearly people have a waning interest in?

LJ;495525 wrote:THIS IS NOT A HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS FORUM. how many times do we have to tell people that?

justincredible;495872 wrote:I changed up the meta tags and site description as an experiment to see if it changes the rankings. We'll see what kind of change in traffic it brings.

Wooball;499323 wrote:A great way to increase traffic from the Ohio high school football fan would be to have this site linked from Joe Eitel's website. How difficult would that be to have happen?

-Society-;499280 wrote:Why would you do that? LJ himself said, "THIS IS NOT A HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS FORUM". You are going to make him mad.

justincredible;499412 wrote:Well, he's mostly right. ~5% of the total posts on the site are in the HS Football forum. ~10% from the HS forums combined. Still, it's a way to get people here.

se-alum;499475 wrote:I don't understand the stigma of "being like JJ Huddle", it was obviously pretty popular, as we were all there posting. Their downfall was pay-to-post, other than that it was pretty damn popular. After reading alot of the stuff in the CFB and Pro Sports forum, it's easy to see why the Huddle had the rules it did. It's all up to Justin to do what he wants, and how much effort he wants to put into growing the site, but saying we don't wanna be like the Huddle is kinda narrow minded, imo.