Case study: vBSEO on HaloBoards.com

• Chris Guthrie
• Forums
• May 16, 2007
• 2 comments!

If you look back to my first post about vBSEO – Case study: vBSEO on GamingVidz.com - you’ll see that I bought two vBSEO licenses. Well, I finally got around to installing vBSEO on my second largest site, HaloBoards.com and here are the initial results from the site:haloboards.com search. I didn’t intentionally delay installing vBSEO, I was just really busy, but what’s nice about that is I have several more weeks of Google Analytics data to show pre-vbseo. Here is a graph of a month’s worth of data showing my visits by source from April 12th, 2007 to May 12th, 2007:

As you can see from the graph above, I received a majority of my traffic directly (forum members typing in the address to come back to the site). Google gave a suprising 7% of my traffic with MSN putting in about 2%. I also got nearly 6% of my traffic from my personal Halo blog – thehalogod.com (where I share my halo videos, thoughts on the halo franchise and various other video games). As you can also see, I received some traffic from halo3forum (I attribute it’s appearence in the graph due to a few big name Halo montage makers hosted videos on H3F with our intro credits in them as well).

Now, onto the site:haloboards.com searches:

site:haloboards.com (Google) 6,176

site:haloboards.com (Yahoo) 10,509

site:haloboards.com (MSN) 118

Now that I am running two case studies about vBSEO at the same time, I plan to update the GamingVidz study on Monday’s (as usual) but will be doing an update on HaloBoards every Wednesday. Also, just like my study on GamingVidz, I plan to do monthly graphs from Google Analytics to display where the traffic for my site’s comes from. The goal here is to see an increase in the share from search engines.

I believe it’s already working for GamingVidz and the longer it’s been installed for, the more traffic I’ll be able to get from search engines and subsequently more members on the site.

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