Website Report

[ddye]

Since the new website has been up for ten full days, I thought I'd report the early statistics. I used Google tracking, and Eric supplied onsite stats.

After only ten days, and with seven days remaining in this month, the site already has more hits for October than for any month this year, 130888, contrasted with 107648 for September. Over 3 GB of bandwidth has been used (people listening to the audio, or looking at the slideshow), easily the highest of the year.

The new site has now risen above the MySpace site in Google, and Google has registered the search optimization added to the site. Google stats (which measure the hit counts lower, not including repeat visits, Googlebots, etc) by country (starting on Oct. 14th, the first full day) are:

US: 1060
Britain: 49
Germany: 110
France: 33
Canada: 48
Japan: 20
This makes sense because BC is on tour in the states right now.

There are a few cool stats here; for example, Michigan, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania were states where over 80% of the site visitors had NEVER VISITED THE SITE BEFORE.

This isn't about tooting my own horn, I wanted to share this, and ask anyone who knows any other musically oriented sites to contact those sites and recommend that they link to BC's site. Rock music blogs, stoner rock websites, other message boards, it doesn't matter. This will drive more viewers to the site, which will inturn improve the Google ranking, and ultimately give BC more visiblity at a time when they are touring a lot of these states.

My apologies to some here for lagging behind in suggestions, I am swamped with my paying work right now. I will catch up. In addition, I am cleaning up some problems on the old site for Duck, but I am behind on that also. Sorry Duck, I PROMISE I'll get to it ASAP.

Thanks to Eric for bringing this to my attention.

Doug

[gypsyball]

I wonder how many hits this message board gets in a month.

[FeedbackLourde]

A lot!

[mr maltese]

I'm sure a lot more than either the myspace or both websites,....
heck, all the latest news regarding the band is all on here for the most part - to me all the best info you can get on the band is here

[Terence Belcher]

gypsyball said:

I wonder how many hits this message board gets in a month.

No doubt the amount goes up whenever you decide to grace us with yet another one of your deep, meaningful posts. All hail the return of Gyspyball, King Of Useless Posts!!!!!!

[Dew Dude]

But if you were to take away the `Thoughts of Gypsyball`, would there still be more hits than the `myspace or both websites`?

How does Doug Dye work out that his website has more hits this month than in any other month this year, considering that in `any month this year`, that particular website didn`t even exist?

So, you are now the proud owner of Frank`s site, Doug! How did you manage to acquire that?

I think that if you are going to clean it up, you should take it back to how it was originally, before others got their hands on it, and leave it like that. It should be a testimony to not only Blue Cheer, but also to it`s creator, and not to those who cannibalised it afterwards.

[Charles V]

The new site is great and the inclusion of the old site should remain in the form which it was when the New Site was uploaded to the INTERNET regardless of what modifications were made at various times, sort of frozen in time if you will.
There is access to any form of the BC site available now at will.

[Paul Dicuck]

Dew Dude,
Where is the money that pays for the site and its being hosted ??

[rowenafair]

that "any month this year" statistic confused me too; but why do you guys always have to assume the worst about those who are actually making contributions here? do you want everyone else to leave? THEN what would you talk about?

the new site is great - there's always room for improvement everywhere - and will probably evolve like anything else that lasts.

[ddye]

First off, it's not "MY" website, it's the band's, they retain every bit of content (even the new content). It's hosted on the same server (for now), and the "old" site is now in a subfolder, so stats for the year for this server are accurate, hence, it's easy to compare the stats for the year to date. The Google stats only started with the new site, so they only go back to 10/13, even though 10/14 was the first full day. Although Richmond Media agreed to host the site for a year, we simply haven't shaken loose enough time to do it yet.

I like the old version of the "old" site too, but I simply cannot get to it right now, I'm pretty swamped with paying work, so I'll get to it when I have the time. I did manage to at least make the general color scheme similar to the old site, so the basic look is the same.

Doug

Dew said:

But if you were to take away the `Thoughts of Gypsyball`, would there still be more hits than the `myspace or both websites`?

How does Doug Dye work out that his website has more hits this month than in any other month this year, considering that in `any month this year`, that particular website didn`t even exist?

So, you are now the proud owner of Frank`s site, Doug! How did you manage to acquire that?

I think that if you are going to clean it up, you should take it back to how it was originally, before others got their hands on it, and leave it like that. It should be a testimony to not only Blue Cheer, but also to it`s creator, and not to those who cannibalised it afterwards.

[Buzz]

DD...
OK, you don't need to give any more disclaimers or defend your actions to anyone on this board. You've been absolved for all miss-deeds (real or imagined)...You reached out and did a good thing...which is unusual in the music industry...thank you! The site is great,
Now.....can I get the special "Blue Cheer" rate for my website??(I'm serious)
again...good job

[old]

can't the old site remain up the way it is? you don't have to do anything to it yet. until you do you can leave it up the way it is. it looks good.