Progress Report - Chamillination.com

Installed vBSEO 2 days ago and unfortunatly didn't get to start a progress report thread until now. I'll update at least once a month. I know we had 792 users then, so estimating threads and posts for 2 days ago.

Site: www.chamillination.com
Start Date: Sept 19, 2007
vBSEO Install: April 12, 2008
Sitemap Install: Sept 19, 2007
Users: 792
Threads: 2,653
Posts: 36,230

Google: 3,890
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 75
Yahoo! Site Explorer
MSN: 1
Live Search: site:chamillination.com

1 week update

Can't complain with the changes after just 1 week. Registrations have been going well, still having trouble with search engines. Google peaked at about 4,500 entries and recently dropped. I added the sitemap to MSN last week as well as yahoo. Thought I already submitted the sitemap to yahoo, but apparently didn't.

Stats
Users: 822 (+30)
Threads: 2,805
Posts: 38,222

Google: 3,390 (-500)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 78 (+3)
Yahoo! Site Explorer
MSN: 1 (+/-0)
Live Search: site:chamillination.com

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 145
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search
Yahoo: 0
Yahoo! Site Explorer
MSN: 0
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Live Search

How are your current hits?

Also, how long is your long tail?
Measuring Your Long Tail - vBulletin SEO Forums

I found out Sitemap Generator was failing to ping to yahoo, so fixed that and now pinging all 4. After some reading I set it so "show post" and member profiles are not being put into the sitemap so those numbers have dropped drastically. I know it's still early and because I'm rather new to SEO'ing vBulletin, it'll take time. Plus my site is just about 6 months old so I'm getting there.

I also have a custom "website" built into vBulletin as index.php and forums as forum.php, I edit the extra-urls.txt for sitemap to include index.php which is important because it's where I have the biography, discography, tracklists, lyrics etc (more content rich pages). I added custom rewrite URLs for all those index.php?do= pages as well.

Most of the changes I did were done yesterday, and Yahoo has gone up to 88 indexed pages so that's good.

Visits fell pretty bad, 2 days after installing vBSEO (April 14 peaked at 40, April 19 was at 11) and is slowly going back up (yesterday had 29 hits from google). Average before vBSEO was in the high teens.

Long Tail:
369 hits from google
25 keywords
14.76 hits/keyword

The top keyword (222 hits) was my site name, the second was chamillionaire forum with 43 hits, and third was my URL with 22 hits. We have about 13 of the keywords with just 1 visit. I'll start adding all this into the weekly reports as well.

Long Tail:
369 hits from google
25 keywords
14.76 hits/keyword

When your long tail starts to grow your traffic will grow significantly.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

When your long tail starts to grow your traffic will grow significantly.

I hope so, but like I said my site's still small, growing better than I expected, but still got a long ways to go. Glad I bought vBSEO now before it's too late

Week 2 Update

Stats
Users: 849 (+27)
Threads: 2,978
Posts: 40,960

Google: 4,800 (+1,410)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 88 (+10)
Yahoo! Site Explorer
MSN: 1 (+/-0)
Live Search: site:chamillination.com

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 605 (+ 460)
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search

Long Tail:
542 hits from 29 keywords (18.6 hits/keyword)

Week 3 Update

Stats
Users: 865 (+16)
Threads: 3,096
Posts: 43,042

Google: 5,030 (+230)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 87 (-1)
Yahoo! Site Explorer

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 1,300 (+695)
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search

Long Tail:
684 hits 83 keywords (8.2 hits/keyword)
-Google Analytics were messed up for most of the week, I switched back to the Urchin code and has been working like normal, so the long tail could be better then what it's showing.

Long tail growth pattern starting. Nice work.

Week 4 Update

Stats
Users: 898 (+33)
Threads: 3,253
Posts: 45,068

Google: 5,160 (+130)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 548 (+461)
Yahoo! Site Explorer

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 1,340 (+40)
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search

Long Tail:
939 hits 199 keywords (4.7 hits/keyword)

9.06% of traffic comes from search engines, started out at a little over 7 before vbseo, so slowly going up

Then: 684 hits 83 keywords (8.2 hits/keyword)
Now: 939 hits 199 keywords (4.7 hits/keyword)

Still seeing growth. That's great.

Week 5 Update

Stats
Users: 941 (+43)
Threads: 3,405
Posts: 47,376

Google: 2,850 (-2,310)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 539 (-9)
Yahoo! Site Explorer

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 844 (-496)
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search

Long Tail:
1,239 hits 308 keywords (4.02 hits/keyword)


Some reason the search engine entries have gone down, but number of visits and unique visitors are up. Also search engine traffic sources have jumped to 10.3%, that's 2% since 2 weeks ago. Looking great and very happy so far

Week 6 Update

Stats
Users: 1,014 (+73)
Threads: 3,616
Posts: 50,395

Google: 2,770 (-80)
site:chamillination.com - Google Search
Yahoo: 535 (-4)
Yahoo! Site Explorer

Search results with VBSEO
Google: 732(-112)
site:chamillination.com vbseo - Google Search

Long Tail:
1,812 hits from 413 keywords (4.38 hits/keyword) - nice jump