DMF is fast out of the gate!

[CRASH!]

I'm noticing a big difference between how TOB got started and this one. TOB was sleepy and slow to gain momentum (and posts) giving everyone a chance to get acquainted and settled in. This one's pedal to the metal and hell bent for leather from the get-go!

Balancing that, there's an admin/mod core that is already grooved in on how they want to handle this place and what they want it to be, where on TOB the team was built over time and they figured it out as the membership and post count grew.

Just an observation, not a value judgement. The dynamics here will be different. Maybe we have a psychologist or social scientist who wants to do a thesis on this

[herm]

wonder if there is any kind of record for how fast membership on a site grows..........

[b_lack]

Excited to see this place hit 1,000 members...

[tommys67]

The big hurdle will be when this site overtakes TOB on a Google search for "Ducati Monster Forum" or "Ducati Monster Message Board"  wt:

Have a hunch that may take a while... co::

[eltristo]

The big hurdle will be when this site overtakes TOB on a Google search for "Ducati Monster Forum" or "Ducati Monster Message Board"  wt:

Have a hunch that may take a while... co::

I was actually thinking of that earlier.  That is the major obstacle, in that it's the number one way we get new members.  It's gonna take work, but we'll get there.

[hiero]

TOB members seem like they're doing a good job of getting the word out, i know I've sent quite a few emails already as have many many others..

[eltristo]

Uhh, TOB .... "The Old Board",  "Terrible Otter Bastards", "Taming Old Bluehairs"?

Just trying to de-stupid myself a little.

[PizzaMonster]

This one's pedal to the metal and hell bent for leather from the get-go!

It's because this one had the 14-tooth sprocket installed before it was delivered. wt:

[El Matador]

It's because this one had the 14-tooth sprocket installed before it was delivered. wt:

And the termis.. Don't forget those...

[TiNi]

we all know what we like  wt:
it is amazing how fast this place grew

[Vindingo]

I wonder how large the drop in traffic at TOB is? 

I also think they have fake numbers for the amount of "guests veiwing"  Some numbers are bigger now then when everyone was still there. 

[Timmy Tucker]

The big hurdle will be when this site overtakes TOB on a Google search for "Ducati Monster Forum" or "Ducati Monster Message Board"  wt:

Have a hunch that may take a while... co::

I Googled "Ducati Monster Forum". TOB's #1, we're #20.

[TCK!]

Well you know that they've optimized TOB for search engines. It's generally a big mod on forums to get them ranked highly on searches that aren't exactly what the forum is looking for.. with some work we could over take it easy if we develop ours better then theirs.

[b_lack]

As I understand Google PageRank technology (what determines the order your search results show up in), the key is being linked to on other websites. Basically, you need lots of other people referring to this place as THE site to be for ducati monster information and community. That will cause us to be ranked above the others. No matter how many members, that kind of "being situated within a network" where other places link to us will take a little time. But we should encourage it by getting the word out constantly.

[bigiain]

As I understand Google PageRank technology (what determines the order your search results show up in), the key is being linked to on other websites. Basically, you need lots of other people referring to this place as THE site to be for ducati monster information and community. That will cause us to be ranked above the others. No matter how many members, that kind of "being situated within a network" where other places link to us will take a little time. But we should encourage it by getting the word out constantly.

+1

If you want this place to grow, the best thing you can do is to get other websites to link here. Link to us from your website, put us in your facebook/myspace/linkedin profile,  link here from your flickr or picasa page, blog about us, post a link to here on other forums or in blog comments, put a link to here into a wiki, twitter about us.

If you want to get serious about it, play around with the link text too, try and make the linked text some good keyword bait for what people are likely to search for, something like:

<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>Ducati Monster forum</a>
and
<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>Ducati Monster forums</a>
and
<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>Ducati Monster help</a>
and
<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>Ducati Monster information</a>
and
<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>Monster maintenance</a>
and
<a href='http://ducatimonsterworldwide.org'>my favourite Ducati site</a>

That'll help other people find us...

big