Do you think we need to add something?

[The KingPin]

Here at BowlingBoards.com we care about your feedback.

If you have a suggestion, please let us know. We want everyone to be happy. Although we may not be able to please everyone, we will do our best.

[djbigsmooth]

good day kingpin, could you add the lane #1 brand label to your bowling ball roster? quite a few bowlers are totaly unaware of the "boutique brands" of bowling balls: Lane #1, legends/lanemasters, morich. this will raise awareness and actually draw faithful users of these brands to this forum.

thanks and regards,

djbigsmooth.:)

[Cerberus]

After looking over the site, I think you should add some bowling games. They have many free arcades and arcade games you could do this with. I think it would help draw in people, if you had a couple bowling games. Also they have some nice bowling simulations and tutorials you might want to add. But the site looks really good. Other than that, I think you may want to look into some SEO help. You seem to be missing a couple things that could add more value towards your search engine rankings and such. But like I said I really like the site. Nice job.

[The KingPin]

After looking over the site, I think you should add some bowling games. They have many free arcades and arcade games you could do this with. I think it would help draw in people, if you had a couple bowling games. Also they have some nice bowling simulations and tutorials you might want to add. But the site looks really good. Other than that, I think you may want to look into some SEO help. You seem to be missing a couple things that could add more value towards your search engine rankings and such. But like I said I really like the site. Nice job.


Hey you bring up some great points. I do have to ask you about SEO. This site is one the first page of the Google, Yahoo, and MSN for bowling forums, yet what do you think we can do to move up this list? Our highest ranking is spot #4. So maybe you have some tips? We have a tag cloud and working on links.

Thanks any any ideas would be great

[Cerberus]

Well as for as SEO goes, I have looked a little deeper. Your title is way too long and it is not relevant at all. Your title is supposed to be short and to the point. It honestly should be Bowling Boards. Having it the way you do will cause it to be dropped in the engines. Plus I noticed you do not have a robots.txt You should have one located here http://bowlingboards.com/robots.txt with a link to your sitemap in it. I do not know if you have a sitemap, but if you do, you should also have a line in your robots.txt file pointing to it to get you indexed faster. Plus you have not decided on what you want the domain to be. You have them both still. With the www. and without. You should pick one to cut down on duplicate content. Plus it can also give members cookie problems by not defining just one. You can do this in your .htaccess. That is just a couple things that would vastly improve your ranking. And get more pages indexed.

You are not doing bad though. Just a little more time and it will pay off a lot.

Here is what you have so far indexed in all the major engines. You may want to sign up for all the webmaster tools each one offers and submit a sitemap if have not done so already :)..But it is a very nice site.

Domain Total Google Yahoo Live AllTheWeb AltaVista
www.bowlingboards.com 3866 377 324 5 1580 1580

[The KingPin]

Well as for as SEO goes, I have looked a little deeper. Your title is way too long and it is not relevant at all. Your title is supposed to be short and to the point. It honestly should be Bowling Boards. Having it the way you do will cause it to be dropped in the engines. Plus I noticed you do not have a robots.txt You should have one located here http://bowlingboards.com/robots.txt with a link to your sitemap in it. I do not know if you have a sitemap, but if you do, you should also have a line in your robots.txt file pointing to it to get you indexed faster. Plus you have not decided on what you want the domain to be. You have them both still. With the www. and without. You should pick one to cut down on duplicate content. Plus it can also give members cookie problems by not defining just one. You can do this in your .htaccess. That is just a couple things that would vastly improve your ranking. And get more pages indexed.

You are not doing bad though. Just a little more time and it will pay off a lot.

Here is what you have so far indexed in all the major engines. You may want to sign up for all the webmaster tools each one offers and submit a sitemap if have not done so already :)..But it is a very nice site.

Domain Total Google Yahoo Live AllTheWeb AltaVista
www.bowlingboards.com (http://www.bowlingboards.com) 3866 377 324 5 1580 1580

Curious about the HTAaccess that you mentioned. What do you mean by the http:// or www?

You are very smart and I appreciate all of your thoughts

[Cerberus]

You have not picked one domain. You can get to your site two ways.

http://www.bowlingboards.com or

http://bowlingboards.com

This will get you duplicate content in search engines. Not only that, but it causes cookie problems if someone logs into one and then logs into the other.

To correct this you would make a file called .htaccess and place it in the root of your site. Most probably a folder called public_html. Inside you would add this code.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Doing this will make your site always use www.bowlingboards.com. Even if you put it in without the www it will still redirect to it. That is what I was talking about :)

[The KingPin]

You have not picked one domain. You can get to your site two ways.

http://www.bowlingboards.com or

http://bowlingboards.com

This will get you duplicate content in search engines. Not only that, but it causes cookie problems if someone logs into one and then logs into the other.

To correct this you would make a file called .htaccess and place it in the root of your site. Most probably a folder called public_html. Inside you would add this code.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Doing this will make your site always use www.bowlingboards.com (http://www.bowlingboards.com). Even if you put it in without the www it will still redirect to it. That is what I was talking about :)


Thank you so much. Do you do seo a lot? I could use your services in the future too if you are taking any new clients

[The KingPin]

You have not picked one domain. You can get to your site two ways.

http://www.bowlingboards.com or

http://bowlingboards.com

This will get you duplicate content in search engines. Not only that, but it causes cookie problems if someone logs into one and then logs into the other.

To correct this you would make a file called .htaccess and place it in the root of your site. Most probably a folder called public_html. Inside you would add this code.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Doing this will make your site always use www.bowlingboards.com (http://www.bowlingboards.com). Even if you put it in without the www it will still redirect to it. That is what I was talking about :)



is this ok

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

[Cerberus]

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Put a space between the 2 if it is not working.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bowlingboards\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bowlingboards.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]


I see you have added the sitemap mod..That is a very good idea :) And yes I do SEO a lot and am always taking clients.

[kev3inp]

Ok, you arcane dudes. Your jedi tricks won't work on me.

I happen to see a number of my friends on at the same time. Could there be a chat room or message area so we could "talk " in real time. Or fake time, for that matter.

[onefrombills]

a real time chat room would be nice so we can talk and get to know each other

[kev3inp]

Bowl1820 told me about the thingie they use at the top of bowlingtracker's forums that is sort of like a chat rom. I'll have to copy and paste what it's called.

It's called cChatBox it's a AJAX-based ChatBox for vBulletin.

I knew I wouldn't remember that!

[kakcpa]

If you want a simple and easy chatroom, please PM me, and I'll show you what to do.....I have one on my board, and its easy and simple to set up.