Another vBSEO case study

**Caddyman** · 06-19-2008, 03:38 AM

Not sure what really everyone wants to see here....lol

site i installed the test copy of vbseo on is Talk Delaware Forums is your source for chat, news, and information in Delaware

installed vbseo last night, here are the current stats (hope these are what we need to compare, anything else needed LMK)

overall

keywords

referrals

bandwidth (moved servers recently, this is the oldest stats i have)

I have done pretty much all the off-site seo i need too previous to the install i think, and don't plan on doing any more really.

comments, suggestions to help me make this as fair as possible would be good

-Caddy

**glennybee** · 06-19-2008, 11:03 AM

Good Luck Caddy!

My decision at the moment is that I don't need vBSEO. I rank higher in google than competitive forums that have been going for 6+ years and I've been online for 4 months.

So I'm keen to follow your progress and see your results.

**ArnyVee** · 06-19-2008, 11:09 AM

This is going to be good! :lurk:

I hope that your traffic triples (and your revenue follows suit!

)

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-19-2008, 11:21 AM

good luck Caddyman, I'm sure you'll be happy with the results

**Mike54** · 06-19-2008, 12:34 PM

Chase, if you keep watching some of the finer details in Analytics, you'll some improvements happening before you know it. Don't stop looking deeper, when you see the indexed page count dropping off, because there will be some other good things happening at the same time.

Since installing vBSEO, I'm getting more search engine visits on more keywords and my bounce rate keeps getting smaller and smaller, so I'm definitely smiling.

Did you manage to get the Relevant Replacement issue straightened out?

**Caddyman** · 06-19-2008, 12:42 PM

no im not sure exactly how that works.

if you view a thread as a guest you will see though "remove advertisements" in the RR though...

**Caddyman** · 06-19-2008, 01:00 PM

google referrals, right now are at 9442 so i am still on a upswing....so far

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-19-2008, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

if you view a thread as a guest you will see though "remove advertisements" in the RR though...

link?

**Caddyman** · 06-19-2008, 02:55 PM

from this thread

Critics Demand Resignation of U.N. Official Who Wants Probe of 9/11 'Inside Job' Theo

Quote:

National News Discuss Critics Demand Resignation of U.N. Official Who Wants Probe of 9/11 'Inside Job' Theo in the General News forums; Remove Advertisements Critics are calling for the resignation of a U.N. official who publicly supports investigating theories that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon ...

**Caddyman** · 06-19-2008, 05:19 PM

what site is that? how long has it been up?

**Mike54** · 06-20-2008, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caddyman

if you view a thread as a guest you will see though "remove advertisements" in the RR though...

That's something I'm thinking you are going to want to get fixed, straight away. There you are trying to highlight the relevant text of each thread and then the words Remove Advertisements are sitting in the midst of it all.

I'm not sure where that phrase is being picked up, but it's certainly not relevant. And the search engines are going to be seeing it, on every thread. It's like the 'Powered by vBulletin' phrase appearing everywhere.

**Caddyman** · 06-20-2008, 02:43 AM

That was being picked up from the remove ads snippet i used under the in post ad in the postbit template. i removed that remove ads link and it's clean now.

still would like to know why the member links are wrong....

i see a glitch in the profile pages, not sure why...

http://www.talkdelaware.com/1-chase/

then on the contact tab it shows the url should be

http://www.talkdelaware.com/chase/

that link ^ takes me to the homepage though.

**Caddyman** · 06-23-2008, 05:57 AM

Stats did drop and now seem to be bouncing back

**glennybee** · 06-23-2008, 01:03 PM

Maybe this thread should be kept to Caddymans case study.

A mod should move all other questions and discussion to a new thread. Sorry but hijackers are a pet hate of mine.

**Caddyman** · 06-24-2008, 02:59 AM

still climbing google incomings are 9780 today

**Greek76** · 06-24-2008, 04:59 AM

Way to go Caddy....

**Caddyman** · 06-25-2008, 03:38 AM

ill post screenshots at the monthly updates. for today im at

294165 page views V
20351 visits^
10,041 incomings from google ^ (might be the highest i have ever seen)

**ArnyVee** · 06-25-2008, 04:26 AM

So far, things look very positive. Is it simply from the changes in the URLs that vBSEO works so well in helping attract an influx visitors?

**Caddyman** · 06-25-2008, 04:32 AM

I guess so, im not really doing any more promotion or anything...

**Caddyman** · 07-17-2008, 05:09 AM

update

Here is a update, will post server stats tonight....

overview

keywords

referrals

**Caddyman** · 08-19-2008, 08:14 AM

updated stats.....

**GL2814** · 08-20-2008, 06:32 AM

Being new to all of this I have to ask, are these good stats and are you happy with them?

How does this compare to other sites that some of the other have?

From a newbie perspective that looks pretty respectable.

**Caddyman** · 08-20-2008, 06:51 AM

they are decent, there are plenty of sites that dwarf TD traffic wise, but for a fairly new forums they are good.

most important measure here, as we are measuring VBSEO's product is the search engine referrals. you see there

"google (organic) 8,915"

that is what we are mainly watching here, along with watching to see if keyword searches increase or perform better.

monthly is a little too long for updates on these things really. for instance, last week my google referrals were up above 11k and have recently settled showing a negative result. they fluctuate sometimes.

**GL2814** · 08-20-2008, 06:59 AM

what exactly does google organic mean?

**Caddyman** · 08-20-2008, 07:28 AM

Organic is just a term describing "not paid" see you can use adwords to get your link on google pages and lot of places for paying for those spots they are paid refferals, a organic referral comes from a user typing in a search on google and your site being listed in the results and them clicking to you.

**Cerberus** · 08-20-2008, 08:51 AM

Wow you get a lot of traffic. How old is your site? I get about 200 a day. I wish I was getting that much.

**Caddyman** · 08-20-2008, 09:06 AM

Talk Delaware is about one and a half years old now, site was launched February 2nd 2007

Here's the first post ever made

Welcome to Talk Delaware

**Soliloquy** · 08-20-2008, 10:03 PM

It should build over time... new posts bring in the search engines, the search engines bring in new members, the new members make new posts. It's the circle of life, and it moves us all!

**Caddyman** · 09-09-2008, 07:56 AM

some more stats to chew on, seems to be on a down tick compared to last update......hoping they will pick up soon

Dashboard

Keywords

Sources

**Caddyman** · 09-16-2008, 10:39 AM

whoa whoa whoa....someone please tell me what is goin on here? im looking for issues with the code now...

EDIT: NVM, i guess when i was cleaning up my footer i cleaned too much

that screws up my data for this month....ARGH!