thewooleymammoth Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 My website just isnt getting the kind of traffic i thought it would, only 500 unique hits a day. I was thinking that since i created the site, its quite possible im blind to some of its flaws, so im hoping you guys can help me out by telling me what turns you off about the website, (eg: not clear enough what the website does, dont like the actuall style ect...) do you think it would help if i created a user uploaded image section? thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 sorry forgot to add the site, www.fatalinjury.org Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-690251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynew Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 500 unique hits a day is pretty good. Try and get the link to your website around more (i.e. get your PageRank up). Also, keep adding pictures and sooner or later, the traffic will go up. Remember, patience. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-690520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 500 unique hits a day is pretty good. Try and get the link to your website around more (i.e. get your PageRank up). Also, keep adding pictures and sooner or later, the traffic will go up. Remember, patience. thanks thats good advice Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-690934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 I noticed in your code that you lack a title tag in the head section. I would seriously look into SEO options to help get you more noticed. The more ways you can get yourself noticed in search engines, the better. A good book I recommend on the subject is this one. Cheers, NRG Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-691776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 17, 2008 Author Share Posted November 17, 2008 there is a title in the head section? <html> <head> <title>Fatal Injury .org</title> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css' media='screen' /> <META name='keywords' content='images, fatalinjury, images, humor, wallpaper, comics, online, view, motivational, posters, funny, picturs, girls, hot, bikini, celebrity, textures, movies, posters, php, random, bored, 4chan, somethingaweful, ebaumsworld, killsometime, kill, time, extra, animals, space, anime, baby, baby names, names, backgrounds, cars, carmen electra, cats, cat, computers, computer, programming, anonymous, crack, death, desktop, death penalty, divx, dog, drugs, dsl, dvd, football, free, themes, funny pictures, icons, japan, las vegas, lord of the rings, matrix, RPG, white, pokemon, world war 3, college, student, hobby, laugh, '> </head> do you not see in the code? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-691837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Sorry.. my bad.. been a long day.. tired.. very tired. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-691904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I think you may be packing the meta tag to much.... that causes search engines to rank your page lower Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-692437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 It's just a site with funny pictures -- I don't think your going to ever get a ton of traffic, since there are thousands of other funny picture sites on the net. Maybe you'd do better with a funny tshirt site. Granted, there are thousands of those too, but off a tshirt site you might be able to get money out of some of the 500 visitors you get, and could then use that money to buy ads to get more visitors -- or offer affiliate programs, or incentives for people to give you their tshirt ideas. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-692934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 It's just a site with funny pictures -- I don't think your going to ever get a ton of traffic, since there are thousands of other funny picture sites on the net. i agree with this completely.... You either gotta create something new(and make it work properly as well), or make some already popular a wholeeee lot better... Look at youtube, facebook, myspace, google.... Youtube- first good video site myspace - first social network faceobok- improved the social aspect of social networks google - the first comprehensive search engine and now look at all the copycats of these sites.... they are not nearly as popular. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-693094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mseerob Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Yeah I dont know if your going to get traffic on this website. I dont want this comment to upset you but I dont really find anything interesting on that website. There just pictures on the website thats all. Spice it up more, try to turn it more into a social network where people can post images and can interact with each other. Also include comment system so people can post comments on the pictures. Good luck!!! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-693253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 not to mention, the word "fatal" implies death. not many people want to look at death. rather or not that material is on your site doesn't matter.... what matters is thats they first thing i think of when i head fatal ingurys Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-693822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Youtube- first good video site myspace - first social network faceobok- improved the social aspect of social networks google - the first comprehensive search engine and now look at all the copycats of these sites.... they are not nearly as popular. Want to see a site copying off google? www.Linkz.com They don't have any of the features that google does (yet?) but do a search. There search page is eerily similar to googles and they have the 2 column layout just like google with the ads there and all. I thought it was a bit cheap of them. Cant they think of anything original? Its not like google is flashy to begin with ..jeez.. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-693845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 not to mention, the word "fatal" implies death. not many people want to look at death. rather or not that material is on your site doesn't matter.... what matters is thats they first thing i think of when i head fatal ingurys the name for the site, while it may be morbid and gloomy, was ment to express the random and wierdness of the site, as you cannot have a fatal injury, because if an injury is fatal its no longer an injury its a wound, and i have been thinking of changing the name for a while, but i dont want to lose the traffic i have, also great suggestion on the comment system, its in the works but its not up to my expectations as far as security and spamming. Any ideas about changing the site name as far as keeping a maximum amount of traffic? because as someone near the beginning had said, 500 unique hits isnt a lot but its not something i want to lose Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-693940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroNiX Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Nothing to do with what you are asking, but I was wondering why you have this line <div id='ad'><script type='text/javascript' src='http://jserve.performancingads.com/js/perfads.js?r=6415'></script></div> BETWEEN the </head> and <body> tags and not just put the script part within the head? Have you done any promoting of your site? How is your google ranking? Sites just don't get popular by themselves unless its totally unique and fills a niche. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-694002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 Yeah I dont know if your going to get traffic on this website. I dont want this comment to upset you but I dont really find anything interesting on that website. There just pictures on the website thats all. Spice it up more, try to turn it more into a social network where people can post images and can interact with each other. Also include comment system so people can post comments on the pictures. Good luck!!! went ahead and uploaded the comment system, please let me know what you think Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-694154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 order them by id, not date. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-694268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Your site just isn't optimized for search engines... For example... http://www.fatalinjury.org/list.php?dir=nature Not search engine friendly at all .. Try giving the images meaningful names and preferably a short description. They'll be more likely to end up on google and other image search engines - which will boost traffic a hell of a lot! Adam Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-694354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Yea and your picture names arent very descriptive. 0002134 or whatever? Maybe your doing that at purpose so the user doesn't know what they are getting? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-694607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 i know, the site is based on my image collection, which is mostly from 4chan, and if you are familiar with 4chan the pictures are automatically named to a big number and thats how i saved them, ill have to go back and rename them someday, but thats a huge task Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-695157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 i would rename them now then have to do more later Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-695391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted November 23, 2008 Author Share Posted November 23, 2008 i would rename them now then have to do more later i would but i dont have enough time in the day, i got a pretty busy schedule, perhaps on my next couple days off Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-696648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 It may be good to not name them because then its like picking a random pic, the user won't know what they are getting but on teh downside if they wanna show a friend a pick of that then they probably won't remember which number it is Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-696717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezkit Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Don't forget you have to have a team of moderators that will frequently look at every image to check if its nothing illegal such as Child Pornography. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-697006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 ..What dedication. This place is great! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/132731-solved-website-not-going-anywhere/#findComment-697126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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