definately offtopic - new site been workin on - want feedback :)

[Derek]

Sorry bud. Whatever "tests" your using are absurdly unreliable. I just checked our traffic stats and if your data is spot on then we're pulling in well over 2x the unique traffic then gameservers which I find unlikely.

 

I find it highly unlikely you are doing 5,000 unique visitors a day, considering I have never seen any advertising from you and you have a Alexa ranking just under 350,000 (alexa gives you a very rough estimate). I am not sure where your unique traffic is coming from as it's certainly not from advertising or google.

[Defcon|Rich]

Ahh. Sorry misread the reply... Carry on

[Defcon|Rich]

I find it highly unlikely you are doing 5,000 unique visitors a day, considering I have never seen any advertising from you and you have a Alexa ranking just under 350,000 (alexa gives you a very rough estimate). I am not sure where your unique traffic is coming from as it's certainly not from advertising or google.

 

Hits don't translate into sales and you are correct that we don't advertise, Never really did for that matter but alas 7 yrs later we're still here and going strong while others who advertise the socks off they're company failed.. I don't know why that is but I'm glad we didn't have to spend countless $$$ to gain the same customers we've attracted for free.

[Jesse]

Hits don't translate into sales and you are correct that we don't advertise, Never really did for that matter but alas 7 yrs later we're still here and going strong while others who advertise the socks off they're company failed.. I don't know why that is but I'm glad we didn't have to spend countless $$$ to gain the same customers we've attracted for free.

 

What if you did advertise... would you be double, triple, quadruple in size?!?

[HGN-Daniel]

Hits don't always translate into sales. It depends on the source of the traffic - I think it would be silly to say you wouldn't see *any* improvement in sales if you saw an increase in traffic. If the new traffic is of equal or greater quality to your existing traffic it follows that the sales that come from your website will increase proportionally as well. Even with lower quality you may still get new sales, just at a lower conversion rate. Of course, some traffic is just useless for most commercial sites (for example, from StumbleUpon or paid traffic).

[Defcon|Rich]

Hits don't always translate into sales. It depends on the source of the traffic - I think it would be silly to say you wouldn't see *any* improvement in sales if you saw an increase in traffic. If the new traffic is of equal or greater quality to your existing traffic it follows that the sales that come from your website will increase proportionally as well. Even with lower quality you may still get new sales, just at a lower conversion rate. Of course, some traffic is just useless for most commercial sites (for example, from StumbleUpon or paid traffic).

 

Thank you.

[Derek]

Thank you.

 

Great, so you saying you buy fake traffic which makes your comment towards sickpuppy totally moot. I clearly suggested that you were not doing 5,000 "real" hits a day so I am not sure why Daniel went on about the quality of the traffic.

 

As if your traffic was real and you had a 1.5% conversation rate you would be doing 2,250 new sign ups a month just from your new visits let alone returning visits.

 

Sorry had to call bs.

[SickPuppy]

I show Defcon at

Daily unique visitors: 612

 

Xfactorservers.com

Daily unique visitors: 896

 

These are realistic numbers. I am not trying to flame anyone just showing that the data I use is accurate

 

HostileContact.com

Daily unique visitors: 167

[HGN-Daniel]

Great, so you saying you buy fake traffic which makes your comment towards sickpuppy totally moot. I clearly suggested that you were not doing 5,000 "real" hits a day so I am not sure why Daniel went on about the quality of the traffic.

 

As if your traffic was real and you had a 1.5% conversation rate you would be doing 2,250 new sign ups a month just from your new visits let alone returning visits.

 

Sorry had to call bs.

 

Derek,

 

I was building upon Rich's slight misstatement that "traffic does not translate into sales."

 

And to be fair, Rich already said in a previous statement that he misread a reply and was not actually getting twice the amount gameservers.com gets (according to SickPuppy's source).

 

Ahh. Sorry misread the reply... Carry on

 

SickPuppy,

 

Those numbers are a bit more realistic, but it would still be a stretch to say that they are accurate without knowing how your sources get this data. Alexa, for example, gets a lot of their data from users that install their toolbar. Nothing is more accurate than web stats (awstats, webalyzer, Google Analytics) directly installed onto a site.

[jbiloh]

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fblikelist.com#

 

 

?

[adamnp]

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fblikelist.com#

 

 

?

 

The site is 17 days old at the moment...Don't tell me you actually expect alexa to display anything besides advertisements this soon?

 

 

This is image is from webalizer....Not some ratty-tatty offsite 'visitor guesser' ...This is from the direct requests to the http.

 

Unique visitors for yesterday was 3806, with 21,000 total hits, peak of 72 users.

[SickPuppy]

The site is 17 days old at the moment...Don't tell me you actually expect alexa to display anything besides advertisements this soon?

 

This is image is from webalizer....Not some ratty-tatty offsite 'visitor guesser' ...This is from the direct requests to the http.

 

Unique visitors for yesterday was 3806, with 21,000 total hits, peak of 72 users.

 

What ever you say dude good luck with the site.

[adamnp]

What ever you say dude good luck with the site.

 

Thanks, However do me a favor, please just stop responding in this thread if you don't have any positive, helpful, constructive or useful information to apply. I started the thread looking for feedback to help me learn more and build the site better. Not one of your posts has contained anything of the such, so in my opinion they are all useless spam.

 

Thanks for the few that have kept *my* thread on topic, and actually provided me with some useful information!

 

I applaud you!

[Defcon|Rich]

 

Thanks for the few that have kept *my* thread on topic, and actually provided me with some useful information!

 

I applaud you!

 

 

Sorry for my part in creating a fire on your topic. I should have know better.

 

Give me a ring some time, We can meet up for a drink and have a laugh about the "off topic" stuff.

[SickPuppy]

Sites now recieving over 3500 daily unique visitors avg of around 20 concurrent. with 250,000 page views daily... I plan on hitting the million mark by the end of the month. Ad's are steady at around $1.00/CPM , I'd like to achieve around $1.25.

 

 

Don't place the blame on others for responding to your post. You are the one that took the topic in a new direction with post #7. Myself and others were just responding to your post on the site traffic. You changed the subject not us. So you are the one to blame for all of the site traffic responses.

[Jesse]

This is the best forum ever

[adamnp]

Don't place the blame on others for responding to your post. You are the one that took the topic in a new direction with post #7. Myself and others were just responding to your post on the site traffic. You changed the subject not us. So you are the one to blame for all of the site traffic responses.

 

oh crap....you got me....

 

 

simply speechless...

[ECF]

I am now purchasing flameothergsps.com. I figure I can charge at least $20 a month for membership and all GSPs can flame each other without any rules.

 

What do you think?

[studeggle]

Sounds like a killer business venture, are you certain its not taken yet

[GS-Liam]

I am now purchasing flameothergsps.com. I figure I can charge at least $20 a month for membership and all GSPs can flame each other without any rules.

 

What do you think?

 

Can we purchase spectator membership? As I’m quite amused reading it all tbh lol

[adamnp]

or simply do like we do, and delete stupid ass posts, whoever is placing the post. This quickly gets through to everyone, and the stupid posts stop

 

However, this obviously takes time away from the business which we don't want, so a nice third party moderator would be cool.

 

ECF, why not just clone yourself, name him mini-ECF and assign him to moderation duties and toilet bowl cleaning?

[ECF]

There will be 3 membership types:

 

1. Gold - clients may view, post and respond to flame posts. This membership will also include a 1 weeks supply of popcorn and beer to consume while enjoying the show. Also, you will have the ability to create custom avatars that say <insert GSP name here> sucks!!!!

 

2. Silver - same as above but without the popcorn, beer and avatar/

 

3. Bronze - this membership will simply allow read only access to the forums.

 

 

Pricing will be be as follows:

 

Gold - $20/mo

Silver - $10/mo

Bronze - $5/mo

 

Of course everyone will want the Gold membership

[GS-Liam]

There will be 3 membership types:

 

1. Gold - clients may view, post and respond to flame posts. This membership will also include a 1 weeks supply of popcorn and beer to consume while enjoying the show. Also, you will have the ability to create custom avatars that say <insert GSP name here> sucks!!!!

 

2. Silver - same as above but without the popcorn, beer and avatar/

 

3. Bronze - this membership will simply allow read only access to the forums.

 

 

Pricing will be be as follows:

 

Gold - $20/mo

Silver - $10/mo

Bronze - $5/mo

 

Of course everyone will want the Gold membership

 

Gold membership just for the beer ;-)

[ECF]

or simply do like we do, and delete stupid ass posts, whoever is placing the post. This quickly gets through to everyone, and the stupid posts stop

 

However, this obviously takes time away from the business which we don't want, so a nice third party moderator would be cool.

 

ECF, why not just clone yourself, name him mini-ECF and assign him to moderation duties and toilet bowl cleaning?

 

I don't do toilet bowls... So that idea is out

[bullfrog3459]

There will be 3 membership types:

 

1. Gold - clients may view, post and respond to flame posts. This membership will also include a 1 weeks supply of popcorn and beer to consume while enjoying the show. Also, you will have the ability to create custom avatars that say <insert GSP name here> sucks!!!!

 

2. Silver - same as above but without the popcorn, beer and avatar/

 

3. Bronze - this membership will simply allow read only access to the forums.

 

 

Pricing will be be as follows:

 

Gold - $20/mo

Silver - $10/mo

Bronze - $5/mo

 

Of course everyone will want the Gold membership

 

Beer for the win! 20 per month from me will go far! =] as long as every month i get a new allotment of beer and popcorn!