SEO

Well, traffic was off a little today, maybe because of my lost day yesterday (uniques were about the same percentage, though)...

Only real news is that with 45 min. left in the day I got 337 bots today. This is more than double the average number of bots. They were looking at showthread (155) and member profile (151). I changed my user titles from "New Member" to "New PEB Forum Member" today for users with no posts. Since "PEB" is one of my keywords, hopefully...

So, I started focusing on conversion the other day and wanted to show of what I came up with

Basically I am using vB and vBSEO (on one site) to host a radio show. It has ended up being the best platform I have ever used (obviously . Drupal, WordPress, Blogger, PHPNuke(whoops) Joomla all failed me. :(

So heres what I came up with (before everything was available to guests):

Not Protected (For Guests):
5 Tactics for SEO Success - Jill Whalen...

About 20 days after install (vBSEO and Sitemap generator)

PR 3 in google (up from 2)
site: www.pebforum.com shows 994 pages

My keyword Physical Evaluation Board Forum is 4 for Google and 3 for yahoo. Yahoo 308 Inlinks, site:www.pebforum.com shows 203 pages.

Remember, I installed right after New Year's so, the data is probably skewed by the holidays. I am getting about a hundred visits per day, about half from new visitors. This compares to roughly...

Okay, nothing to do with vBSEO, I just don't have anywhere else to post since my DOMAIN IS DOWN!!! I am hosted with GoDaddy, and I am gettin 500 Internal Server Errors! AGHHHHH....

On the phone with tech support now. Will post when I know more

UPDATE: They elevated my issue. After 2 hours, they sent me an e-mail saying they fixed it. My homepage is showing, but none of the showthreads/showposts are working. So, it was a great e-mail, I just wish it were true....Who...

I have only data for the past few weeks. But, on January 3rd, I had 14 visits from SE referrals. Today, I had 49, with almost 4 hrs left in the day. It seems like I am getting more targeted visitors, i.e., my new members are posting and discussing more.