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Bandwagon Jumping!
* Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
* Create a temporary discussion forum about a popular news event in an attempt to grab the BBC HYS-style of poster.
* Do a deal with a decent search engine and put it on your lead page in an attempt to get users to make you their homepage.
* Bring back the news thing you used to do with amusing spins on various news.
* Chuck up some celebrity rubbish - that always brings in people to chat.
If you want the forums to bring people in and actually be a decent marketing addition to your site then this is the rather unfortunate turn you have to take.
However there are other good things to promote alongside this:
* Writing/poetry competitions
* Most hilarious news item of the day competition
* Best bargain of the day competiton
etc
The point is there are a 1000 ways to get in some more hits from those looking to chat about current topics and win amazon/argos vouchers but you're not attempting them and the forums are dying on their a**e.
Above all these ideas won't amount to anything without high search results and a little bit of sly marketing (email or otherwise) but using the obvious tricks (calling pictures 'Big Brother'/'other' over and over for instance) it shouldn't be a problem.
Worth a go I think.
* Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
* Create a temporary discussion forum about a popular news event in an attempt to grab the BBC HYS-style of poster.
* Do a deal with a decent search engine and put it on your lead page in an attempt to get users to make you their homepage.
* Bring back the news thing you used to do with amusing spins on various news.
* Chuck up some celebrity rubbish - that always brings in people to chat.
If you want the forums to bring people in and actually be a decent marketing addition to your site then this is the rather unfortunate turn you have to take.
However there are other good things to promote alongside this:
* Writing/poetry competitions
* Most hilarious news item of the day competition
* Best bargain of the day competiton
etc
The point is there are a 1000 ways to get in some more hits from those looking to chat about current topics and win amazon/argos vouchers but you're not attempting them and the forums are dying on their a**e.
Above all these ideas won't amount to anything without high search results and a little bit of sly marketing (email or otherwise) but using the obvious tricks (calling pictures 'Big Brother'/'other' over and over for instance) it shouldn't be a problem.
Worth a go I think.
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New category for GAD huh? I've got lots of ideas! Umm I'll need to think about it first =/
Sounds about right. Would explain all the downtime for the links.
Thanks for clearing it up Tony.
Thanks for clearing it up Tony.
Machie wrote:
> Yeah they're making it harder to find the forums now. Do you
> think they're going to pull the plug on us?
>
> If that's the case I'll give Freeola five bob for the forum code
> and we'll carry on regardless (which I'm watching right now ^^
> I love Carry On films)
The Gameaday section of our site, which includes Chat, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Bingo and Customer Sites, now has its own navigation buttons in place of the previous set which previously led to Broadband, Dial Up etc and led to Freeola.com main site. But on the other side of the coin the main buttons on Freeola.com now include only the Freeola services. This is partly because we have some new services to add soon, but mainly because navigation on the Gameaday sites is now completely difference from Freeola.com.
There is very significant daily traffic to the Gameaday sites and it does not particularly need a direct feed from Freeola.com. However, it will still be advertised there and in MyFreeola.
Freeola customers will soon be able to add chat forums to their own sites.
We don't have any plans to change the Gameaday sites, though Bingo is not considered a permanent addition and is likely to be removed the next time we add a new category for Gameaday prizes.
> Yeah they're making it harder to find the forums now. Do you
> think they're going to pull the plug on us?
>
> If that's the case I'll give Freeola five bob for the forum code
> and we'll carry on regardless (which I'm watching right now ^^
> I love Carry On films)
The Gameaday section of our site, which includes Chat, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Bingo and Customer Sites, now has its own navigation buttons in place of the previous set which previously led to Broadband, Dial Up etc and led to Freeola.com main site. But on the other side of the coin the main buttons on Freeola.com now include only the Freeola services. This is partly because we have some new services to add soon, but mainly because navigation on the Gameaday sites is now completely difference from Freeola.com.
There is very significant daily traffic to the Gameaday sites and it does not particularly need a direct feed from Freeola.com. However, it will still be advertised there and in MyFreeola.
Freeola customers will soon be able to add chat forums to their own sites.
We don't have any plans to change the Gameaday sites, though Bingo is not considered a permanent addition and is likely to be removed the next time we add a new category for Gameaday prizes.
Bingo's just come back up on some of the links, so they might be running some sort of maintainence.
Last time they told us when the chat room was closing (supposedly for good back then) so I can't see why they wouldn't tell us if they were thinking of closing it again now.
Last time they told us when the chat room was closing (supposedly for good back then) so I can't see why they wouldn't tell us if they were thinking of closing it again now.
So i guess you have all noticed the change now. No forum list on the main chat page. Pretty difficult to find the threat lists now so people will not just stumble upon us. What is going on. I think they are killing us.
Still the little person motif is hardly pride of place. Its on the bottom right of the page.
Ladybird wrote:
> In the advertising industry the more expensive ads are placed to
> the upper right of the page, simply because that is where the
> eye naturally focuses when a page is turned. If this theory
> hold weight, moving the chat forums tab to the left has just
> phenomenally decreased its visibility.. and patronage. Pft.
I found it straight away as my eye was drawn to the little person motif.* So I'm pleasantly surprised.
*this may be due to me looking at midget porn all the time however.
> In the advertising industry the more expensive ads are placed to
> the upper right of the page, simply because that is where the
> eye naturally focuses when a page is turned. If this theory
> hold weight, moving the chat forums tab to the left has just
> phenomenally decreased its visibility.. and patronage. Pft.
I found it straight away as my eye was drawn to the little person motif.* So I'm pleasantly surprised.
*this may be due to me looking at midget porn all the time however.
On the www.freeola.com home page anyway. Its only top left once you have the /gameaday. Unless youi know its there you cant find it.
Its not even top left it is bottom right. Not on the top of the page at all:(
In the advertising industry the more expensive ads are placed to the upper right of the page, simply because that is where the eye naturally focuses when a page is turned. If this theory hold weight, moving the chat forums tab to the left has just phenomenally decreased its visibility.. and patronage. Pft.
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