LJ
Posts: 16,351
Sep 24, 2010 3:37pm
oh, didn't know you could see the numbers....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
Posts: 996
Sep 24, 2010 3:43pm
Not watching numbers...watching how fast new posts and threads come in...thats all. And just because there are a ton of posts doesn't mean much, when hundreds of those posts are due to threads like this one where only a couple people go back and forth.
Thread Bomber
Posts: 1,851
Sep 24, 2010 3:47pm
If you type "douche bag", Bear dick punch" or "teacher hookup", This site comes uo first every time........
NWIndianNation01
Posts: 996
Sep 24, 2010 3:48pm
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?
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?
Curly J
Posts: 7,282
Sep 24, 2010 6:49pm
I believe all the potential posters went here ---> www.ohiosportsforum.proboards.comNWIndianNation01;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?
(Now I'll probably get the BANHAMMER for Spamming)
Fly4Fun
Posts: 7,730
Sep 24, 2010 8:14pm
I think the majority of people that came over to this site were actually from the Sports Trivia/Info board and college sports boards. This site at it's foundation was much less geared towards high school sports. We offer that section for people to talk about, but it is not the ultimate purpose of this site. Even how we have the rules set up seems to demonstrate that point. We have a much more casual language policy for the whole board, but we made special rules for the high school section. On the other hand we could have had the same strict language policy with one forum that is relaxed.
Sure, we're all for people talking High School sports if they want to. But that's not what this site is marketed as. It's Ohio Chatter.
Sure, we're all for people talking High School sports if they want to. But that's not what this site is marketed as. It's Ohio Chatter.
Tiger2003
Posts: 15,421
Sep 24, 2010 8:21pm
There is alot of people on here that are still on JJ just for high school sports.
Glory Days
Posts: 7,809
Sep 24, 2010 8:38pm
I came here for the gang bang...still waiting...
DeyDurkie5
Posts: 11,324
Sep 24, 2010 8:50pm
You should make beardickpunch the logo for this site
sherm03
Posts: 7,349
Sep 24, 2010 9:15pm
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.
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?
DeyDurkie5
Posts: 11,324
Sep 24, 2010 9:21pm
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?
There will always be an interest in high school sports, and the innternet is looking like teh place to be for discussions regarding the nature and topic. JJhuddle proved that people will go to a site when it's perfect for them to talk high school sports. I just think there is a lot of people looking for another huddle, and not just this state in every other state in the US.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Sep 24, 2010 9:22pm
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.
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Sep 25, 2010 3:08am
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.
Hopefully students who are gullible enough to believe I'm a teacher even though I usually am so blitzed I don't even know what country I'm in at any given time.
NWIndianNation01
Posts: 996
Sep 27, 2010 1:04pm
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?
I completely disagree with this. People aren't on JJ's because they are a bunch of DB's that want to make people pay to post...even if they were given lifetime memberships previously. And Yappi...well, Yappi is Yappi...most people don't like that place because it is full of trolls and rumors. I haven't talked to many people out there that actually LIKE that site. I think that there is still a ton of interest out there, people just don't know where to go.
Thanks Justin.
ts1227
Posts: 12,319
Sep 27, 2010 1:12pm
It isn't that Yappi is full of trolls more than it is all directed toward one little area of the state. If you don't care about private Cincinnati schools and their football teams, there's no point in being there. There's like 3 people who post about the Federal league outside of the Cincy guys.
THE4RINGZ
Posts: 16,816
Sep 27, 2010 1:23pm
Yappi sucks. I would rather post and read on JJ than Yappi.
-Society-
Posts: 1,348
Sep 27, 2010 2:59pm
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.
Why would you do that? LJ himself said, "THIS IS NOT A HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS FORUM". You are going to make him mad.
Wooball
Posts: 1,325
Sep 27, 2010 3:51pm
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?
darbypitcher22
Posts: 8,000
Sep 27, 2010 4:28pm
personally it doesn't matter to me that we're not on the first page of google.
We have our own little paradise here and I don't want a bunch of little bastards coming on here and ruining it
We have our own little paradise here and I don't want a bunch of little bastards coming on here and ruining it
karen lotz
Posts: 22,284
Sep 27, 2010 5:12pm
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?
Might not be a bad idea. If justin or one of the football mods emailed him and asked him to throw a link up in exchange for justin adding a tab at the top of the football forum, I'd bet he'd be willing.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Sep 27, 2010 5:14pm
-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.
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.
LJ
Posts: 16,351
Sep 27, 2010 6:33pm
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.
I don't mind how people find the site, it's just that the OP has been voicing his opinion that he wants this site to turn into JJHuddle for a while now.
BTW, if you google "Ohio Chat Forum" we don't show up, just an FYI
se-alum
Posts: 13,948
Sep 27, 2010 6:59pm
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.
LJ
Posts: 16,351
Sep 27, 2010 7:00pm
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.
it's a site full of holier than thou 40 somethings who argue over what a 16 yr old kid is going to do this friday night...
NWIndianNation01
Posts: 996
Sep 27, 2010 7:56pm
I am not saying I want the site to turn into JJ Huddle...I am just saying that using HS football as a way to grow the site seems like the best idea...IMO...and for selfish reasons, I want people to talk football with...haha
Just because you don't want to talk about HS football, doesn't mean that it isn't a GREAT way to promote the site to the masses.
Just because you don't want to talk about HS football, doesn't mean that it isn't a GREAT way to promote the site to the masses.