Things your proud of... (In your GSP)

[Todd Holley]

If you are referring to what I use... it is very easy to set up and works VERY well. I am going to have to wait to convert my site to php to integrate it though.

[jbiloh]

I'll chat with one of our engineers who coded it and see about making it public. Thanks : )

[Defcon|Rich]

Things to be proud of...

 

I'm proud of the fact I went the whole day without wanting to strangle anyone

 

 

It's also pretty cool running a "little" game server company that currently operates more dedicated machines then most of the datacenters

[DougK94]

At my age, I am happy I woke up this morning.

[kalyse]

Hey Rich, what is your actual number?

If you are at liberty to release that number anyway

[Defcon|Rich]

I can tell you the numbers are well into the triple digits kalyse.

 

 

I'm with you there Doug! While I may not be quite your age just yet it does get increasingly harder to kick the sheets off everyday..

[HIS-MOTHER]

it does get increasingly harder to kick the sheets off everyday..

 

 

Buy a dog and train him to yank them off.

[Defcon|Rich]

We have a 5 mo old baby girl that serves as my alarm clock...

[HIS-MOTHER]

We have a 5 mo old baby girl that serves as my alarm clock...

 

Ahh I remeber those wakeup calls well. Mine is now 8Yrs old and still wakes me up by 6am. As a matter of fact she woke me up last Saturday to play of all things... BHD. LOL

[24play1]

I'll chat with one of our engineers who coded it and see about making it public. Thanks : )

 

Appreciated Jon either way it works out

[kalyse]

Just made top spot

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=games+server+provider&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

 

Need to go for game servers now which will be slightly more impossible

 

Invision is 12th on that, was 10th but it dropped 2 positions last night. *sob*

[kalyse]

Not my GSP but Ive gotten up to goto the Gym at 6:30 every day this week. And ran/rowed 8k each time.

 

Anyway off I go!

 

Edit -- OMG, The rower display broke at the end and I didnt know what time I got! How .... frustrating.

[HGN-Daniel]

We're about to break into the top 100k on Alexa (Yes, I know its not the most reliable source but it's probably a good sign that we're steadily moving up in rank.) We are at 102k, and should be within the top 100k by the end of today. Now we just need to get our google rank up, which has dropped quite a bit due to lack of SEO since our new site release.

[kalyse]

Yeah you can boost your rankings up drmamtically though with some basic SEO. Just looking at it I can see 8 or so things whcih wouldgaurentee to boost your ranking if fixed.

[jbiloh]

Or you can just increase the quality sites backlinking to you. AKA, growing.

[kalyse]

I rank backlinks as the number #1 in SEO techniques, but backlinks isnt everything.

 

Theres only so much backlinking will do if google doesnt know what your sites keywords are.

Dont take any of this in any other way other then constructive criticism but:

 

ie. There is no <h1> tag on the site

The <title> on the site is a fairly irrelevant and non specific slogan

The code to text ratio on the page is hideous.

You have to go through around 80% of the code to get to the first meaningful content and this content doesnt use <p>

 

If I was to revamp the general content output I would start there, tables are okay to use providing the general layout is coded with <div> elements because with tables the way google and search engines will parse the code will mean alot of your meaningful content will actually be at the bottom, so it wont be ranked as high for your keywords.

[HGN-Daniel]

We have enough traffic to get into some of the higher ranks, but like I said we haven't really done any of the basic SEO work (better coding (would have helped if IMG helped with that ), static urls, better content, etc) because we've been kind of busy lately. We will probably start optimising the site for search engines right before we start up our Google Ads campaign.

[kalyse]

My new blackberry 8800 to add to the list.

[ECF]

I never liked the Blackberrys myself. I was and still am a Pocket PC guy myself.

 

I find the Blackberry email a major PITA to setup.

 

At any rate, congrats on the new toy!

[Defcon|Rich]

I use the 8703, Nice little gadget to keep track of everything

[aoganesyan]

Treo 700W FTW synced with MS Exchange Server

[swish]

Pre-order list for the Apple iPhone for me

[Daersun]

ditto!!!

 

this line is here because it wont let me just say ditto

[kalyse]

Im quite interest in the iphone, it will be interesting.. do you have to preorder?

[swish]

I n"most" locations your going to have to pre-order. I know the cingular stores around here are getting 10-50 each when its released. I can see it now, Its going to be a Playstetion 3 type release with lines out the doors. Check with your local cingular store to see if they have a pre-order going.