On March 23rd of 2001 we reached 2000 members and now we are closing in on 4000.That's almost doubling our size in only a little more than 9 months.Any ideas on when we will get there? I'd say on Jan 22nd(my birthday).Of course this is all contingent on the average outside temperature,the phases of the moon,and various and sundry other events falling into line!
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Posts: 2890 From: Lackawanna NY Registered: Aug 2000
Originally posted by hugh: On March 23rd of 2001 we reached 2000 members and now we are closing in on 4000.That's almost doubling our size in only a little more than 9 months.Any ideas on when we will get there? I'd say on Jan 22nd(my birthday).Of course this is all contingent on the average outside temperature,the phases of the moon,and various and sundry other events falling into line!
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Posts: 1560 From: Maple Valley, WA Registered: Oct 2000
Originally posted by hugh: If anyone wants to send me a present,PM me and I'll give you my address!
I already know your address.
By the way, if it will help, I am wiling to have myself cloned so I can legitimately open another screen name and help you reach your "4000 members" goal by the 22nd.
Originally posted by fogglethorpe: [QUOTE]Originally posted by hugh: [b]If anyone wants to send me a present,PM me and I'll give you my address!
I already know your address.
By the way, if it will help, I am wiling to have myself cloned so I can legitimately open another screen name and help you reach your "4000 members" goal by the 22nd.
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That would be unethical, unless your a sheep.
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hugh Member
Posts: 5563 From: Clementon,NJ,USA Registered: Jun 2000
Originally posted by Fierokid87: hmmm. I dont know. Just seems that our membership to this forum is just increase by leaps an bounds.
Well, that's pretty easy to explain. It seems that a lot of new members find PFF through the popular search engines like Google and Altavista.
Currently, PFF is listed on the first page (number 10) when you search for "fiero" on Google, and in the number 4 spot if you search for "fiero" on Altavista. So at this moment, people are finding PFF easier.
Whenever someone starts a thread with adult content (which contains words like s.e.x. and p.o.r.n. - periods added for below reason) PFF's position in the search engine drops dramatically. PFF used to be on the number one spot in Altavista, but dropped all the way to position 50 or so when a thread called "S.E.X. in a fiero?" was active. It's now climbing back steadily to the number one spot. Google uses "link-popularity" which means that if a site is linked from many other sites, it considers it "important" and the site gets a high position. But as soon as Google finds adult content, it will drop the site to position 1000 or so. So if that happens, nobody is able to find PFF through search engines and the number of new members almost grinds to a halt.
That's why I'm not to keen about using adult language here, because it has more effect on PFF than most people realize.
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Fierokid87 Member
Posts: 4954 From: N. Ridgeville, Ohio, USA Registered: Jan 2001
Thats some interesting info Cliff. I didn't know the search engines were actually searching sites for bad language and such in determining the order in which they rank sites! Hopefully everyone will keep it clean so PFF can stay high enough to keep attracting members!
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