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TVDinner · #11 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerlene

Well the datacenters are always updating. It'll update soon enough and be reflected on the site.
Is the information live?

yes. our script updated 4 times a day (basically every 6 hours) so the post counts, member counts and other info updates on an ongoing basis.

Jerlene · #12 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 09:08 PM

I love that, especially the post count, etc.
Small Boards has my site's statistics stuck at what it was months ago.

DefCon5 · #13 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 08:38 AM

Jerlene, can you post a lint to small boards?

Jerlene · #14 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 02:16 PM

www.small-boards.com

Data · #15 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 03:24 PM

I submitted my forum!

dane · #16 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerlene

The way you've been promoting it, do you think the traffic is just visitors checking it out? Or do you have a lot of submissions?
I have a ton of forums. Maybe I'll just submit them for the links.

Thats what I am thinking... Plus there is no directory structure for crawling... so aside from new sites and the top sites how is your forum supposed to get indexed exactly?

dane

Jerlene · #17 (**permalink**) 06-24-2008, 03:53 PM

Unless I'm featured, I don't see how I'll get any exposure.

TVDinner · #18 (**permalink**) 07-26-2008, 11:57 AM

Hi everyone.
Update - we now have over 900 forums submitted, recently got a PR 3 ranking and our Alexa ranking is in the top 200,000 sites. The corresponding webmaster forums have taken off, as has the blog which is already a PR1 without any promotion at all. At the rate people are submitting we will be over 1000 forums very soon. thanks to everyone who has submitted.

here are some of the features we will be working on.

1. The Main Site Directory: adding variables to our custom script to fix some of the current sites and types of forum software that are not reporting correctly.
2. The Main Site Directory: increasing the variables of our custom script so some foreign language forums can submit.
3. The Main Site Directory: adding the ability to filter the directory "by category" feature so people can look at the ranked forums by different categories as well (currently you can filter by post count, member count or software)
4. The Main Site Directory: Starting to add many "admin/staff reviews" on the individual site pages. For example we have done one review and will be adding many more in the future - http://www.thebiggestboards.com/341/...dventures-2.0/ . In the future we will be looking for new staff reviewers to help do many of the reviews.
5. The Main Site Directory: Going along with #4 above we will be revamping the way the individual forum pages look with a little different layout and additional features on each page to go along with the "admin/staff reviews" of the different forums.
6. The Biggest Boards Blog: Having guest writers do regular articles for the blog on topics like SEO optimization, advertising, link building, and anything related to general forum management. The blog is something that I am looking forward to expanding.
The goal is to have MANY guest writers produce new and regular articles for the blog and have The Biggest Boards Blog grow and evolve independently as well. Articles posted on the blog will also be posted in a new section on the forums for greater exposure and cross linking.
I am looking for guest writers now to start getting this rolling, but have not formally announced that yet (until now, lol)
7. Dynamic Ranking Buttons: Creating a dynamic button that can be placed on other forums that shows their current rank. It might look something like this:

8) The Biggest Boards Forums here are a major piece to the entire site that we will keep working on very hard. I really see the potential for the forums here to grow and be one of the busiest admin/webmaster forums for forum owners of all sizes. The goal is to keep pushing to make these forums the most active they can be.

9) Our own TBB ranking system. This will not be tied into just amount of posts, or amount of members, but be a combination of things and will include speed of the forum, quality of posting content and some other factors. This will probably be tied to #4 above

10) Interviews with forum owners. we plan to interview some of the forum owners and then put these interviews or question and answer sessions on their pages, and feature on the forum as well.

Finally while getting to 1000 forums in the directory is a big miles stone it is a TINY amount compared to the estimated amount of forums on the Internet. There are many millions of forums and we have only barely scraped a pimple on the surface of all of the active forums out there. I would like to see the list grow to well over 10,000 forums eventually and go up from there. I know it will take some time, but each day I learn about hundreds of new forums that I never knew existed.

There are many other features we have discussed adding in the future and my plan is to never stop developing the features of this site.

TVDinner · #19 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Jerlene

www.small-boards.com

Guys - smallboards.com and small-boards.com redirect to The Biggest Boards site. consolidated everything to one site with stats and listings for everyone, big or small!

TVDinner · #20 (**permalink**) 08-09-2008, 10:22 AM

Congratulations to Mercury Ice who is The Biggest Boards August 2008 Board of the Month!
Mercury Ice will be featured on EVERY page of The Biggest Boards main site and the forums for the entire month of August and until our next BOM is chosen!
You can read more about Mercury Ice and their BOM win at The Biggest Boards August 2008 Board of The Month Winner! - Mercury Ice

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