hello fellow people

was just wondering, how many members has this site got ? and how many of those members are active or make reg posts ?

i wouldnt have a clue around 500 maybe ? :S and 30 active .. i got no idea

The forums have been more active over the last few days i noticed

Sats are @ the bottom f main page

152 members

I cull the list every so often

For it's size we prob have more chat here than sites with 1000's of members

I'd say it would be safe to Cull another 100 of the members here & it wouldn't make a difference cause they haven't logged on for 12 months or so & dont think they ever will but I'll leave them there for the time being.

Nope !

Good guess it's only about a dozen active members Danial

I'm seriously thing about closing certain forums like fishing reports only accesable to members only cause we have a hell of alot of lurkers out there

This will also give me a good indication if i decide to cul the members list.

Unlike al the other forums stats on this site are accurate & true they Dont tell Porkys

I've noticed on other sites they'll show large no's of peeps viewing the site & it's not true hey keep stats over a wun or Tu hr period giving a false illusion that that site is bus.

I find wun of the best indicators of how a site or thread is travelling is to look @ how many views that thread has had, we've got a few big wuns here may not be alot of replays bu the views tell the story

Here it's every 15 minutes & new stats are displayed

Cull the dead members and lock up some of the forums would encourage people to join then login and get involved.

If you want I can make a simply script that only allows the Guests or lurkers to see the first post in any topic and thats it.
So even if they are a member trying to look they will need to log in not just lurk.

And if people want the true stats on this site they can only be gotten from the server which I run.

eg members 152 with 143 unquie ip addresses
active in past 12 hour 9 members ip
active in past 30 days 14 with unquie ip.
visits by unquie ips 712 in last 24 hours ( which means people look and don't join, plus web spiders which we have the biggest hits from , which if you look at online and see guest with ips address 66.1---------- well that is google..

And to be straight I told Jumpus where we sit on that SEO , which is rather high.

sorry forgot these stats
Topics 1136
Posts 15027
Uploads
131.64 mb
attachments 232.36mb

See it not the amount of members but the activatie of the members that gets the higher seo in page listing for Google and Yahoo and the the big search engines .
What I would like to see is this site at about 500 members and then turn it off and make it by invitation only to register , not like others that have 10000 members plus but in actual only have 100 active.
Give me 100 active and 400 partly active and I would be a happy admin.
I know these from my other sites and from sites that I admin for, I have 3500 members on 1 site and actual is 72 members active all the rest are just leechers and Jumpy knows what site I mean.
So size is one thing active posting is more important.

Those numbers sure do tell a story Ozman.


Does that mean we have a few members with more than 1 username?

So we get about 700 leeches a day, all these people looking at me... YIKES!
Get off you perverts!

what it means is
1) there is members from the same ip address but only 9 of them.
2) we get alot of hits from google, yahoo, ask jeeves, jayde, entireweb just to name a few that hit this site at least 10 to 20 times per day via their bot crawlers.
This means they see the sight always changing and that is good.
At present go to google and type this

fishingozstyle we should come up at page 1 no 1
fishing oz we should come up as page 1 no 8

Why do you think I get about 5 sites asking per day to be linked to us, from car repair to food stores as I have the seo hitting us ,just have a look in the link exchange file and see how many.
The only poor part is we are not real good on Alexa ranking, but I don't care about that.

What I would like to see is active member and more of them.
It might sound strange but even a simple tutorial on knots or sinker making can bring us more amd more visitors and this makes it possible for more members.

To be active or to be active.

Yeah we had that B4 oz & I thought it was good

BUT I was up @ Mr Shinny Heads place & the twit kept winging that I should shut certain forums to peeps who aren't members or logged on.

After thinking about it think Mr Shinny Head has a valid point I know for a fact we get alot of Lurkers from other sites here who dont register or log on never posted nor ever have intentions of doing so.

Without try to sound big headed about it & ewe Oz know very well I can either kill a thread or make it into boomer by just saying wot I have to say I've done this on every board I've ever been on

Whether ewe luv/hate Jumpusthink he's a genious or wanker it's all irrellevant cause peeps are allways curious to see wot I'm up to & have to say here & on any other sie I've ever posted on just look up threads I'd posted in & see how many views those threads had.

SFF was a classic for that the moment I posted sum ting within 5 minutes that thread had anything up to 20 extra views

Think just showing the initial post in a new thread wont do the trick cause the initial post has any pics & the report in it, I allways used to use the IMG option & host my pics on their server, then I started using attachments on this server only cause I wanted peeps to log on to view pics.

Now if ewe can write a script that shows all threads BUT wont allow access o them unless logged in then that I will be happy with

Now if ewe can

I tell you I'm here !!!!!!!!!!! or at least i think i am here ?????????????? will i leave, ,,, most likely , but I will come back that I promise, HMMMMMMMMMMMM Did I spell that wright, were is that Doug when i need him, ooooohhhhhhh sorry he belongs to another site, now if I may ask why cull non posters??????????????????????? may be just name and shame them as lurkers, PRAWNSTAR respond please, this is a double dear

Paul

I have no intention of removing even 0 posting members.
And Jumpy that is already available in the admin panel under permissions or is in the main script config section but it is there just not activated.
It requires all to logged in otherwise all they see is the first screen and all forums as protected.

What about you have to join the forum and make atleast 10 post before you can see a info section

On the info section we can have another section with boat ramp threads and other ones with fishing rigs. nd another one with fish species and so on.

It can all be put together by members than put in the sections by an admin and in the bottom of the thread it can say [[ thanks to Poly for this information] or something like that and lock the thread.

like this

Click to view attachment

flattie I have that at my others forums so as you posted a new forum became available and all it meant was making members levels an permission.
But Jumpy would agree here it is a talk forum so what section do you make for each level, now that is r4eally hard.
I think the the only oppostions is guest see first post only or make it that you have to long in to see forum.

Yeep yep that's i , this is ot a warez forum where leechers coe to for D/L's



Not really a god idea Danial Sun, prob with that option is ewe'll get 10 replies all with a wun or Tu word reply just so they can access te rest of the site & tey'll prob never post again, not that wo they'd allready posted was of any value.

Wot I'm proposing is different, still may not encourage posting BUT it will make sure we dont have 10 guests showing up @ the bottom of main page

If they want to read wos been posted on this site then they'll ave to register & be logged in to view the forums that wil be hidden.

Cant hide those forums from view either else it will look like a ghost site with very wittle going on so ewe dangle the carrot to entice the wittle wabbits

Oz !

This is wot I'd like t be visible [pic below]

Full view of threads to this stage it allows full view of tpic tittle , replies etc

If an unlogged in or unregisted person tries to open any of those threads then an error message should appear saying

Register or log in to view topic


None of this will garauntee peeps getting invlved in the threads but it will ensure we get rid of those lurking around as guests

Ewe cant make people post & I'm not really interested in doing so, there's many reasons why they dont post
*Dont know how these forums work
*They actually members know wot they're talking about & dont realise everything posted is just opinions
*etc etc etc

I just dont like seeing un named guests @ bottom of page, if ewe want to view topics the ewe show yourself it's as simple as that

I also have no probs if these peeps dont post no drama there either cause I know of quite a few hre hu never have & just like to read BUT wun day if a topic is of good interest to them ? then they wil post

Try going to google click on sites in australia and type in " fishing forums " as most people would if they were looking for a new web site to visit for fishing information.
I got to page 15 and still no mention of this site, so I gave up. Heaps of tiny little suburbs with a fishing site but not this site.

Google & all the other search engines are temperamental wittle suckers Frank

They seek out specific wording 1st then look for anything close enough

Now !

if ewe type in fishing oz

it comes up no 3 on the 1st page

Had oz man called this site FishingOzForums it also would've come up on the 1st google page search

I knew exactly wot oz was on about when he started this thread cause I'm prob the worst offender

http://www.fishingozstyle.info/forums/inde...?showtopic=2077

Think I'll start behaving & start giving my reports a real name & not the SpoofyLaCockasen wuns they've been getting

Google wont pick up on fushy's called Brimski's, Kungys etc unless ewe type in those words

Then it's all your fault Jumpy.
Not really something you think of when putting in the subject, in future I'll be taking more care too.

Another thing I've noticed is we get a lot more posts per day than some of the other sites that have much larger memberships.
(See I just turned one post into two. LOL)

The chances of anyone looking for a fishing site that contain forums is very unlikely to type into the search " fishing oz " probably be about the 20th option, long before then they would have found a forum they like and joined it.

Ok , I have been slack in the promotion of this site of late.
But The thing we need to prompt this site is what the SEO call key word.
This can be done via a meta tag or by the members using headings that are topic related or are based on words that people use to search the web.

ok as for the metatag I have the following words installed.
"Keywords" CONTENT="Australia forum, fishing Australia, fishing in australia, fishing tackle australia, Australian made fishing reels, fishing lures, fishing rods, fish, fishing Australia, Australian fishing, Australia fishing, fish Australia, , Australian made, chat boards, forums, tackle, Alvey reels, lures, crankbaits, free screensavers, fishin, fishon, Queensland, Marlin, flyfishing, tasmanian devil, victoria, viva,viva products,New South Wales,Western Australia,fly, river, eastuary, camping,hunting,mateship,friends,fishingozstyle.info,saltwater,reports,chat,boat
ing,boat,shooting,rifles,">
Description" CONTENT="Australian fishing forums for information on fishing in australia with a family feeling">

If you think of other words give me a yell.

How about -

Wittle Fishys
Boofy Woofys
Goatys
Willy Wonkers

With your Asian title plus Poly's Bugger we'll be up to our armpits in Chinese Poofters in no time.

i hope that my back to basics post that put up may help in 2 ways

1) increase the amount of times this forum its shown when some 1 does a search for that term

2) increase both mine and fellow boaters/fishos on general knowledge for example im sure that ,my last back to basics on bearings helped a few people not to mention my new back to basic post

also its a great way to get new members

thats why ive been throwing a few new topics in as well ,,jas

Believe it or not wun of the most viewed threads on this site is wun by Spud in the Hunting Forum & I put it down to the thread title it has 2,839 views
Vangaurd Sub-moa Vs Tikka T3 Hunter

May have to go back to sum of my threads & change the title I think esp the boat builds, I know B4 I started building the goats I searched the web intensly to find out how other peeps built them

Just to also let ewes know we do get a hell of alot of wot I think are arseholes trying to register here GooDarus guess is over 50 a day but they cant get in & I dont want them here either.

These peeps are out only to spam porn drugs etc, I have built quite a large site ban list & that anti spam prog oz installed is working fine

That's wun of the reasons we dont have a huge member list here unlike other sites I dont allow email address's or sus IP address's in

jason I've allways said most times wot seems like a stupid or simple topic allways turn out to be the most viewed & most popular cause everywun can have a say

oz !
This time I'm being serious & not yoking around
Keywords" CONTENT

Get LOX RODS into that list & open up the Tackle Talk forum to public view

Dont think there are to many on the web who are more qualified to answer any Q's on these rods than yours truly I have models that aren't even released yet

Also I just did a google search on LOX ROS & fishingozstyle comes right up the top of page 2 lets see if we cant get it on page 1

yeah oz man,

jumpus is the most qualified at this.... jumpus is the best man for everything...

we are trully lucky

The only thing ewe've been lucky with so far is that I haven't put up a pic of your hairy arse wearing a Red G String

Couldn't bring myself to do it to the guys here

oz I've run a red line on googles amount of inquiries & this is just google

been more search's for LOX International cause that the parent co

Good thing is all these are Australian search's no overseas as LOX name is only avail in oz

done

OZMAN .... now I am really upset





I always thought of myself as unique!

Seafairy do ewe know wot a unic [unique] is ????

Well back in ancient time they were yung fulla's who had their removed , these yund fulla's job was to tend the harems & if they didn't have any then they couldn't get a

So do ewe still want 2B unique ???

JUMPY ...and ... OZMAN

I have to agree with both of you, you don't want someone posting here for the sake of putting up a post.

AND I think closing some of the forums to be viewed by members only is a good idea!
Show them the first/first and 2nd posts to wet their appetites

If the first post is in a topic that they have been searching for then they will join and hopefully become involved ... like me

I have often come in to see what is going on and only post if I think it adds to the subject etc,

JUMPY

if unique means you don't have then I think that I am one of the few here that can be called TRULY unique

Dont know about that

Fed tells me ewe have a big pair of Gumballs

She's a gumball kind of gal.

Have been absent for some time but have found this site again. Will be checking in daily now. Need some fishing reports from down under!

As of late we are having problems here in California with the squid invading our waters. The current invaders are weighing in at around 60 pounds, not sure of the metric conversion. But as everyone should know they are rather destructive in they're eating habits. Heard tonight on the news that local dolphin have been spending the nights in local harbors for sanctuary. Now that IS crazy.

Anyway, will be out catching some squidlies soon and looking to read up on stuff from down under!

John

Send them over this way john

But only the wee wittles wuns, they've been a bitch of late & only just started coming on the chew

Geez they're big squid you're getting around 28 kg in metric

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Are the squid attacking the dolphins John?

May be doing a trip down your way in a couple of weeks Sir Reel

Hows the fushing been like ??????

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I-hAVE-Special-bOOFY-wOOFY's- Hu-fIND-Me-wITTLE-Fishys
tHEY-Have-BIG-SNOZA's-smell-them

Tis either down your way or JB want to test out a few new rods SP'n for Snappa's

Plus I'm itchin to get out of Sydney for a break

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eazy_az

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Not sure. I'll be looking into it today. Those squid are mean buggers, and strip the ocean eating everything in sight.

Someone should catch them squid and post them to Auz and we can use them for bait.


Amazing how easy it is type when the keyboard is working. I am using a different computer for the moment,as you may be able to tell.

Me Tu

There was a doco on the geographic channel [I think] sum time back on those Squid ocsawdust is refering to

My eyes popped out of my head when I saw them monster squid

Reckon if ewe put wun out on a downrigger it would be attacking the kingfish