Is this fair ? Youtubers vs Bloggers

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September 24th, 2015
fette

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

When you have your websites live statistics broadcasted to anyone wanting to view, it would behoove you not to make up numbers. You had a total page view of 8,449 in month of July, with only 102 new visitors, 99% of which was pulled from this forum. Most of the rest are fake referrers.

99% of your site traffic comes from the forums. Since you started the website, or at least the statistics for this one in October 2014, most of your hits come from this forum and facebook.

This month it looks like you're doing really well with facebook referrals, which is good, but there's no trend of organic google returns for your website. Commendable stats for a fan website for sure! No need to pad it to justify to the people on the forum. Most of your new visitors account for your total visitors, which means you aren't retaining much of those that do visit. Each new visit translates to less than 2 clicks per visit, which also leans towards fake referrals. Trust me, as a marketeer, I hate those fake referrals. Screws up all of our web statistics!

Although the fact that you have a stream of referral visitors from h@ckforums isn't a good sign...

I'll bring it up with the moderators, see if they agree that a Fan Website subforum is necessary or not.

In the meantime, I suggest establishing a home in Creativity subforum.

http://forum.supercell.net/forumdisp.../23-Creativity

well with a name like ' keylogger' I'm not surprised...and therein lies the crux of it...the amount of links we'd get to ppl's ' websites' ...would probably be mostly ' free gems' and 'h@cks' sites ... It's impossible to police.
September 24th, 2015
Eternal625

You are mistaken. I do not own a website. However there are certain websites I've granted permission to share my work. All guides, base designs, and other content I create will always be provided here at SC forums foremost and completely free.
September 24th, 2015
Pranav

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Originally Posted by MizzouBA

This is promoting your website. Obviously. We aren't dumb. Secondly, I feel like this should be in off topic.

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Originally Posted by RAppel

If you weren't trying to promote you website you could easily have left it out?

That doesn't change the fact that OP has a point.
September 24th, 2015
KeyLogger

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

When you have your websites live statistics broadcasted to anyone wanting to view, it would behoove you not to make up numbers. You had a total page view of 8,449 in month of July, with only 102 new visitors, 99% of which was pulled from this forum. Most of the rest are fake referrers.

99% of your site traffic comes from the forums. Since you started the website, or at least the statistics for this one in October 2014, most of your hits come from this forum and facebook.

This month it looks like you're doing really well with facebook referrals, which is good, but there's no trend of organic google returns for your website. Commendable stats for a fan website for sure! No need to pad it to justify to the people on the forum. Most of your new visitors account for your total visitors, which means you aren't retaining much of those that do visit. Each new visit translates to less than 2 clicks per visit, which also leans towards fake referrals. Trust me, as a marketeer, I hate those fake referrals. Screws up all of our web statistics!

Although the fact that you have a stream of referral visitors from h@ckforums isn't a good sign...

I'll bring it up with the moderators, see if they agree that a Fan Website subforum is necessary or not.

In the meantime, I suggest establishing a home in Creativity subforum.

http://forum.supercell.net/forumdisp.../23-Creativity

Well i see you have done a nice research, but if you used internet tools to check on websites ranking you need to keep in mind that they don't count all the page views that visitors do, they do count unique visitors which i get daily about 900 - 1000 and most of them view at least 2 more articles so you can do your math.

About the traffic you are right, during summer i didn't do anything since I was participating in Youth European Olympics held in Tbilisi, Georgia so i was in preparation in Turkey (yea i do Judo). When i came back i thought i give a boost by sharing my content around Facebook clash community.

Also about h@ckforums, I'm a members there for around 4 years now and if you didn't know they have a special sub forums dedicated to Clash of Clans on the Mobile Games Section.

Here is a screenshot from the CP of the website, it counts page views not unique visitors, that's why i say that i have around 4000 views daily on average. http://prntscr.com/8k4e3e

But again I'm really thankful that a respected community member is taking a look on my thread and at some point understanding what I'm trying to do, so thank you again.

PS : i miss the Poll Feature, since it would determine better if my idea is at some point good or just useless.
September 24th, 2015
Rocky55119

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Originally Posted by TheConfuzed1

Some of you guys can be really quick to throw around your negativity.

Seriously, this dude is right...

So he's promoting his web site... The point is that he has nowhere else to do so!

There should definitely be a place here for this!

I agree with this guy here.

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Originally Posted by lasmite

This feels like a case similar to "pls add my country flag"!

I have nothing against private sites for the purpose of expressing your passion towards a subject, in this case a game.

Promoting is something I do have something against. Not promoting itself, but rubbing it in the face to anyone you stumble upon. Having a link to your site in the signature of yours, that would be totally fine. If people find your content attractive, your site will get the exposure you are looking for.

What you could do to promote in a more subtle way is by taking part in this forum community, gaining the respect of people and showing that you do care about the content you make. Not just for the views.

If you were to start out on a video platform like youtube, gaining attention is a much harder task compared to, say, a blog. If you make good content, there is no search engine that will grab it and display it to relevant searches. You HAVE to promote it somewhere if you want to spread it around. To keep the forums relatively clean though, it is a very good idea to have a special place for just youtube related discussions/promotions.

Asking for a dedicted forum for the content you make.. it feels a bit cheeky. Why not just keep it in the creativity section? I am very positive that Supercell would consider adding a blog sub-forum if there is a need for them to do so.

Not sure if any of what I have said made any sense. I hope it contributed in some way. Keep doing what you do on your site! But please, promote in an acceptable way. Nobody likes it in their face.

Have a nice day :)

Back up the truck buddy!

Gaining website exposure is very, very difficult rather than a YouTube video. On YouTube, you can get all sorts of views by having good tags, descriptions, and YouTube recommends videos to watch.

On a website, you have to seriously focus on Search Engine Optimization, otherwise only your grandma will be reading your posts.

"Promoting is something I do have something against. Not promoting itself, but rubbing it in the face to anyone you stumble upon. Having a link to your site in the signature of yours, that would be totally fine. If people find your content attractive, your site will get the exposure you are looking for."

He has no where to share it though!

I'm also not sure why in all of these threads I'm finding people who say, "thread closed" acting like they are moderators. Maybe they're mods on alt accounts and forgot to sing in while they were incognito?
September 24th, 2015
KeyLogger

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Originally Posted by Eternal625

You are mistaken. I do not own a website. However there are certain websites I've granted permission to share my work. All guides, base designs, and other content I create will always be provided here at SC forums foremost and completely free.

Oh, please excuse me about this, but while writing the thread it came in my mind that I saw your name on a website, CoC Land i think, sorry please, I'll remove you name right now.
September 24th, 2015
OnyxClan

Well if your websit is ever looking for a writer let me know. I used to run a clash blog but I couldn't maintain it due to not being able to have constant activity. I'd be down for 1-2 articles/tip/stories a week. Hit me up in a PM please with a response :D
September 25th, 2015
DurtyCurty14

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Originally Posted by OnyxClan

Well if your websit is ever looking for a writer let me know. I used to run a clash blog but I couldn't maintain it due to not being able to have constant activity. I'd be down for 1-2 articles/tip/stories a week. Hit me up in a PM please with a response :D

This is another pretty solid argument in favour of a Blogger's Corner.

This would inevitably bring the community closer together. Those looking for writers to lend a hand and those who want to write but can't maintain a site themselves and don't know where to look would have a perfect spot to gather. It's just another outlet that would attract more than it would repel.

I find it encouraging when two complete strangers find a common ground on the 'net and begin working together towards something. As I said earlier, I really don't see any reason something like this would be a bad idea.
September 25th, 2015
KeyLogger

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Originally Posted by DurtyCurty14

This is another pretty solid argument in favour of a Blogger's Corner.

This would inevitably bring the community closer together. Those looking for writers to lend a hand and those who want to write but can't maintain a site themselves and don't know where to look would have a perfect spot to gather. It's just another outlet that would attract more than it would repel.

I find it encouraging when two complete strangers find a common ground on the 'net and begin working together towards something. As I said earlier, I really don't see any reason something like this would be a bad idea.

Well thanks for the support, i really would need help about the website, so im always looking for people who want to give me a hand with writing articles to reach me and we can set something up. Thanks

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