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My .NET authored site for pickup basketball has been up for just over five weeks now. I have signed up 76 users and this number seems to have really plateau'd out. I have added such features as RSS feed of the NBA news that I find interesting (which no one uses -- seriously), RSS on the individual team pages (which one person uses), and comments on new items (which 3 people have used). Most of my user-agents are IE 6 and Windows. There have been 3 users hitting it with Firebird, 1 IE on Mac. I see a lot of requests for cmd.exe which I attribute to Code Red still out in the wild. I see a number of spiders including: MSNBot, GoogleBot, Scooter, Slurp... No doubt they are coming from weblogs.asp.net as I think this blog is the only site to link to InfiniteHoops.com.
So, how do I grow my users? Do I continue to add portal type features like voting? Add some sort of social networking like Friendster (there are 14,000 ballers in your network)? I am thinking of having a “Link to me, I'll link to you“ promotion to raise my Google rank. Currently, if I search for “pickup basketball“, I can't find my site in the first 50 pages. Terrible.
On another sad note, my trusty dev machine (Inspiron 8100) is suffering from a failing hard drive. All my data is off of it and I am keeping a death watch on the poor guy. Not sure if I will buy a new drive or just work on a new machine as the Inspiron is getting old.
Anyhow, I have a game now so I must go.
Comments
- Anonymous
November 11, 2003
My first suggestion would be to illustrate more effectively what's available without having to sign up.
It took me a little while to make sure it wasn't for some Basketball online video game matches :p
So with a little more "About" content on the front page, people might get the picture quicker. I don't want to sign up first and then see what I signed up for.
Nice infinity basket baller on the side (tu) - Anonymous
November 11, 2003
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
November 11, 2003
I appreciate the feedback guys. Thanks for taking the time to have a look.
Josh, that's great. Feel free to create a team and schedule some games. Actually, it was the same story for me as well. - Anonymous
June 18, 2009
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