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InfiniteHoops.com -- the first month

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My .NET authored site for pickup basketball has been up for just over five weeks now.  I have signed up 76 users and this number seems to have really plateau'd out.  I have added such features as RSS feed of the NBA news that I find interesting (which no one uses -- seriously), RSS on the individual team pages (which one person uses), and comments on new items (which 3 people have used).  Most of my user-agents are IE 6 and Windows.  There have been 3 users hitting it with Firebird, 1 IE on Mac.  I see a lot of requests for cmd.exe which I attribute to Code Red still out in the wild.  I see a number of spiders including:  MSNBot, GoogleBot, Scooter, Slurp...  No doubt they are coming from weblogs.asp.net as I think this blog is the only site to link to InfiniteHoops.com.

So, how do I grow my users?  Do I continue to add portal type features like voting?  Add some sort of social networking like Friendster (there are 14,000 ballers in your network)?  I am thinking of having a “Link to me, I'll link to you“ promotion to raise my Google rank.  Currently, if I search for “pickup basketball“, I can't find my site in the first 50 pages.  Terrible.

On another sad note, my trusty dev machine (Inspiron 8100) is suffering from a failing hard drive.  All my data is off of it and I am keeping a death watch on the poor guy.  Not sure if I will buy a new drive or just work on a new machine as the Inspiron is getting old.

Anyhow, I have a game now so I must go.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2003
    My first suggestion would be to illustrate more effectively what's available without having to sign up.

    It took me a little while to make sure it wasn't for some Basketball online video game matches :p

    So with a little more "About" content on the front page, people might get the picture quicker. I don't want to sign up first and then see what I signed up for.

    Nice infinity basket baller on the side (tu)
  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2003
    I appreciate the feedback guys. Thanks for taking the time to have a look.

    Josh, that's great. Feel free to create a team and schedule some games. Actually, it was the same story for me as well.
  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2009
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