F-Body Online study

First, a bit of background:
I started F-Body Online back in Nov. 2006 with SMF and switched to vBulletin around december 1st or so.

The site is still relatively small, with 188 registered members, but I hope to see that number go up a bit faster from here on out.


vBSEO Installed: Aug. 15th 2007


After 3 Days
Unique Visits



Search Engine Visits

Looks good Andy!

20 day update:

July 15th - August 14th Stats: Full Month



August 15th - September 4th Stats: 20 Days


So far I'd say its working. Registrations are up as well.

Looking Great Rocket

Great to see some good stats. I just implemented vbseo on my muscle car forum namc.us. I hope it works out for me, there's so many car forums out there, it's hard promoting them.

Jan 10th-Feb 9th compared to Dec 10th-Jan 9th
4,427 Visits
Previous: 3,342 (+32.47%)

32,290 Pageviews
Previous: 21,981 (+46.90%)

7.29 Pages/Visit
Previous: 6.58 (+10.90%)

This is compared to a more "down month" during the holiday season, but compared to my last larger months, it is still very high.

Also getting over 2600 visits via google compared to 1500 Oct-Nov.

Also getting over 2600 visits via google compared to 1500 Oct-Nov.

Excellent.

Originally Posted by Rocket 442

Jan 10th-Feb 9th compared to Dec 10th-Jan 9th
4,427 Visits
Previous: 3,342 (+32.47%)

32,290 Pageviews
Previous: 21,981 (+46.90%)

7.29 Pages/Visit
Previous: 6.58 (+10.90%)

This is compared to a more "down month" during the holiday season, but compared to my last larger months, it is still very high.

Also getting over 2600 visits via google compared to 1500 Oct-Nov.

Getting Even more traffic now. Helps to be #1 in google for some top terms like "Firebird Forums"




6,596 Visits
Previous: 6,124 (+7.71%)

44,989 Pageviews
Previous: 34,601 (+30.02%)

6.82 Pages/Visit
Previous: 5.65 (+20.72%)


66% of my traffic is now from Search Engines, and I've got dozens of keywords on the frontpage of the SERPs in google and yahoo

How's your long tail?
Measuring Your Long Tail - vBulletin SEO Forums

I'm not sure I'm doing this right, but I'll type it out and let you look at it:

Top 100 Keywords
Top 3 Keywords receive: 522
Remaining 97 Keywords: 3904

All Keywords
Total Keywords: 2,315
Total Hits: 4,426
4,426/2,315 = 1.912 hits per keyword.

Not sure if that is too long or what, but if you wanna give me some insight that'd be great.

*All of this is over the past 1 month via Google Analytics. If you'd like me to do all time I can try that as well.

Great info. So we see that 25% of your traffic comes from your main keywords. The remaining 75% all come from a powerful long tail.

That's an excellent long tail. It's showing that you are successful in generating hits from thousands of keyword variations. As your content grows, your long tail will grow, and your traffic will grow with it.

Imagine if you only got traffic for your top 3 terms... You would only have 25% of your current traffic, and probably 75% less earning potential! That's the powerful of the long tail.

Good comparative data would be your long tail stats for an equal period of time pre-vBSEO and post-vBSEO.

I'd just like to add a few things:

First, big thumbs up to vBSEO, and the team. I'm now #1 for 4 pretty large keywords searched by camaro/firebird owners and my traffic and most importantly registrations are going through to roof compared to before.

Monthly Registrations
Jan: 43
Feb: 56
Mar: 59
Apr: 74
May: 89 (with 9 days still to go in the month)

No doubt that this was probably the best 150 bucks I've spent in quite some time.

I'm now #3 for Camaro Forums. This is huge, as I was #1 for Firebird forums for a month or so now but now I'm climbing through the ranks of Camaro Forum(s) as well.

I think this speaks for itself. A forum with 700 Members beating sites that have been online 10+ years.


From now on, EVERY vBulletin forum I run will be getting vBSEO as soon as it goes public.

Looks like you are having great success rocket. Congrats

Yeah, great to see it's working out for you