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Title: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,978 Location: Michigan, US ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | So today I log on my forums to find there are several new members registered. At the beginning of the day I only had 26 members, so I was pretty happy with a few more in one day. And as the day went on they just kept coming and coming, I am now up to over 50 new registrations today which is more than I even started out with. The reason all these users are registering is because for some reason they believe my site is a WoW private server site. I've gotten several PMs, profile messages and intro posts asking "where's the realm list" and I just can't understand why they think it is a private server site. Unfortunately I've had to tell them that we do not allow discussion of private servers since it is against WoW EULA. A major patch came out yesterday which added a lot of new content to the game so I did some searching to see if I could find where they were all coming from. I'm on the first page here private server running 2.4 - Google Search and here world of warcraft 2.4 private server - Google Search and maybe others. "private server" is in the results because that is the alt text of my topsites buttons, I did not put that there. But I just cannot comprehend after seeing the site how all these users still think its a private server site, with the welcome header and welcome PM and no mention of server lists or anything, they still think that they just can't find it. Unfortunately probably most of these users will never post but I have a contest planned for the upcoming month so that is good that I have a bigger userbase to start with. Too bad I don't have ads on the site yet, today has definitely been my biggest day so far for that site. Oh and for the lulz, one of the members asked "i registered now wat do i do" so I wanted to reply "how do i shot web?" but I resisted.
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| Title: Apprentice Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 325 ![]() ![]() ![]() | Quote:
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Title: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,978 Location: Michigan, US ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Quote:
![]() haha if they did I certainly don't mind. ![]() Quote:
I'm not sure how long this will last but it'd be cool if I can get over the 100 member mark, that will be a lot faster than I got there with my last forum.
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Title: Apprentice Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 492 Location: Buffalo, NY ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recent Blog: 1 Year of Registrations by month | Can't complain about free traffic. I got a huge surge a couple weeks ago when Boyd Coddington died and people were searching for him. I got 452 visits from the google search "body coddington" (mispelling of boyd), and since my sites name is f-BODY, I got a ton of those hits for my news thread about his death.
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Title: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,978 Location: Michigan, US ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Well looks like it's continuing again today, I'm up to 110 members. I think one of them actually isn't a private server person because they're posting actual quality posts, lol. I wonder how long this will continue.
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| Title: Apprentice Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 325 ![]() ![]() ![]() | That's funny. Cool stuff! Take advantage of the opportunity and start creating topics or areas geared to attract and keep them!
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