Australian Media Center Community

[guvner]

Hi everyone,

My name's Mike and I've just purchased VBSEO and waiting for it to arrive. Having done a bit of reading here, I figured it would be good to run a "change diary" to hopefully see some improvement in my numbers. I've just completed a detailed snapshot of my current position before I install the software and add the Google sitemap, it will be interesting to watch what happens.

Before I add my data, a question for the team here if I may. My main site is www.xpmediacentre.com.au, however I also own several other domains, all of which point to the main one. The only problem this has ever caused me is when new members try to login through one of the other domains (e.g. www.xpmediacenter.com.au)and they get logged out at each page change. Recently I've added a couple more domains to my inventory in preparation for Windows Vista and intend to submit them to the SEs to hopefully capture the new range of search terms that will be used when the OS is released.

I have to say that as far as the whole Search Engine optimisation thing goes I'm a total klutz, apart from adding my meta data to the header and submitting to Google and Yahoo year ago, I've been lucky I guess to have featured reasonably well. In many ways I find myself feeling quite nervous about using this software and making sure that my re-write rules are set up correctly for my situation, which leads me to my first question . . .

How does VBSEO work with multiple, parked domains pointing to a main one - is there an advantage or is there a "special way" to set things up to optimise my Search Engine numbers, especially if one or both of my new domain for example - www.windowsvista.net.au and www.vistamediacenter.com.au turn out to be more relevant to my site's content in the coming months?

OK, here are my starting numbers:

Forum Lifespan - 57 weeks & 3 days.

Pages indexed @ 15th Feb 2006
Google - 110,000
Yahoo - 3,460
MSN - 1,081

Google ranking
Primary key phrase - media center - not within the the first 20 pages
Secondary key phrase - xp media center - ranked 6th
Page rank for vBadvanced CMPS and main forumhome - both 3/10

Yahoo ranking
Primary key phrase - media center - not within the the first 20 pages
Secondary key phrase - xp media center - ranked 32nd (used to be 1,2 or 3!)

MSN ranking
Primary key phrase - media center - not within the the first 20 pages
Secondary key phrase - xp media center - ranked 8th (used to be 1!)

Awstats (as at end January)

Unique visitors: 69,212
Number of visits: 124,727
Pages Served: 2,277,162

Googlebot 50206+205 785.94 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:56
MSNBot 18480+212 556.79 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:35
Inktomi Slurp 13275+1506 125.14 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:55
Unknown robot (identified by 'crawl') 6042+294 85.01 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:57
Unknown robot (identified by hit on 'robots.txt') 0+3581 132.81 KB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:41
Unknown robot (identified by 'spider') 651+212 24.97 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:39
Alexa (IA Archiver) 603+68 12.38 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 17:07
WISENutbot 504+6 4.81 MB 31 Jan 2006 - 23:34
Unknown robot (identified by 'robot') 43+9 1.90 MB 30 Jan 2006 - 18:53
Walhello appie 27+12 436.42 KB 31 Jan 2006 - 06:01
EchO! 36 197.34 KB 15 Jan 2006 - 21:08
AskJeeves 13+11 411.03 KB 31 Jan 2006 - 10:56
Voyager 3+2 203.38 KB 24 Jan 2006 - 13:13
LinkWalker 2+1 114.89 KB 15 Jan 2006 - 10:40
Harvest 1+2 72.59 KB 18 Jan 2006 - 06:29
Lycos 1+1 66.94 KB 25 Jan 2006 - 21:26

Alexa (15th February 2006)

Traffic Rank for xpmediacentre.com.au: 116,783 (+ 484,561)
1 wk. Avg: 116,244
3 mos. Avg: 116,783
3 mos. Change: + 484,561

Reach per million users:
1 wk. Avg: 12
3 mos. Avg: 12.5
3 mos. Change: +1,150%

Forum Stats
Total Posts: 50,888
Threads: 6,354
Registered Members: 11,316
Most members online was 825, on 31st January 2006

[Joe Ward]

I would recommend using a single domain only OR 301 redirecting the others to your primary URL.

[guvner]

Day 1 - VBSEO installed along with VBSOE Sitemap, pretty much stock settings applied.

Brrr - scary stuff