Just Ordered vBSEO with Install

My site is brand-new and has only 16 members, (two of which are me and 13 are personal friends...).

So, with only one real honest-to-goodness member who actually found the place, it'll be very interesting to see how vBSEO works for me after it's been installed by the vBSEO staff.

The site is a informational web for anyone interested in St. Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine has less than 20K residents, but many, many times that in visitors each year. I'm trying to make my site the place to go for up to date information on what to do and what to see in St. Augustine, and provide a place for the people who live here to chat and talk local subjects.

I'll be offering local advertising at very reasonable rates later, but first, there has to be a reason for someone to want to advertise on my site. Someone has to be there to see the ads!

vBSEO, let's see your stuff!

If anyone would like to watch it grow, here's the link:

St. Augustine Online

Good luck with the site, i'm sure in time it will do well and vBSEO will help along the way with that. It has helped my site based on a similar thing for my local town - www.burnleyweb.com

Very good Neal. Is that vBadvanced Dynamics you're using for your home page? I've thought about incorporating that into my site, but I have to talk to someone who has used it first.

Well, the vBSEO folks have just finished installing the software for me. It was a comedy of errors. First, I'm not a techie. I know databases. That's it. That's what I'm good at. The directory structure of my webhost is alien to me. I had no idea what to do to install this thing and didn't even set up the ftp for them correctly. I finally had my webhost provide the ftp information and setup for me. Then, when I setup the admin privs for the vBSEO tech, somehow, after I entered the password for it, the password wasn't there. Emails back and forth, confusion, anger (me), frustration (them), and FINALLY after a whole day of back and forth, it's installed!

Holy Crap! What a day!

Mert Gökçeimam, you have the patience of a Saint!

Now, let's see what this puppy will do!

I'm going to do some local advertising as well. Radio, newspaper and I'm having some T-shirts made as give-a-ways to local friends.

I'm going to offer 3 months of free banner ads to any local business.

This is a push...hehe, maybe a shove...

Glad to hear that you are now installed, despite a few hiccups.

Sounds like you will be very proactive in your marketing. Let us know if you get solid results from your offline strategies.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Glad to hear that you are not installed, (a typo, I hope) despite a few hiccups.

Sounds like you will be very proactive in your marketing. Let us know if you get solid results from your offline strategies.

Dude, here's one to you!

Let's watch

Originally Posted by www.StAugustineOnline.net

Very good Neal. Is that vBadvanced Dynamics you're using for your home page? I've thought about incorporating that into my site, but I have to talk to someone who has used it first.

Apologies for the delay. I'm using vBAdvanced CMS and it's a great product, and costs...nothing!:

www.vbadvanced.com

Originally Posted by www.StAugustineOnline.net

Dude, here's one to you!

Let's watch

Yep - big typo. Too much coffee. Too little sleep. I'm very glad you ARE installed *now*.

ok, so today will be 30 days from istallation, after viewing your Google results in
site:staugustineonline.net
shows 225 results as today 03/09/09



Question is...Is this a basic average on a monthly basis?
It sound good to me!
I just installed like 3 days ago and very exited!!

Cheers!

the counts will obviously differ based on how many and what quality of posts there are on the site in the first place.

ok, what if there are thousands of visits but no new posts, will this be a problem gaining links in google?
thanx

visitors don't create posts... members do

mate, do a critique request here http://www.vbseo.com/f45/
and pay someone to make a top banner,

I always use the same companies

logo -- $25 and pretty decent Logo Design by Got Logos - Custom Logo Design at Incredible Prices
top header -- $50 these guys make amazing headers Professional Web Banner Design Services by YinnPixel.com

Originally Posted by briansol

visitors don't create posts... members do

So i guess I wasted my money! lol
My forum is more informative than anithing else, with not much posting im doomed,

Visitors can still link back to your site without ever posting. Your forum will grow over time as you convert new members who will eventually start posting. Try to think of ways to get them to do that. Create sub-forums that are of particular interest. Pose interesting new threads that awake people's desire to express themselves. You can do it. And as that new content is created, vBSEO is there to optimize it in real time.