T-Bucket Forums Statistics - 14 June
June 14th, 2008 by adminIt’s getting to the point that we’re nervous about looking at the statistics for the T-Bucket Forums. The numbers have been so impressive over the last few months and we’re wondering how long these numbers will hold up.
But the good news is we’re not seeing any signs of a slow-down yet.
One of the more impressive graphs is the one showing the monthly hit count for the T-Bucket Forums.  
Here is a graph that is going the opposite direction, but that is a good thing. 
The points on this graph represent the Bounce Rate for the last few weeks. Bounce Rate is a number reflecting the number of visitors that visit a single page on a Web site and then move on, without viewing a second page.
The key to getting more members is to get more visitors to a Web site. We thank our members who are linking to the T-Bucket Forums on their own Web sites and on other sites, as this helps build our traffic numbers. But we are also relying on the search engines to ferret out keywords from the site. The more keywords we can get indexed, the more chances we have for our pages to appear in searches. The more pages we can get to appear, the better the chance for getting visitors to our site. The more visitors we can get, the better chance we have for converting visitors into members.
This graph shows the number of keywords that have brought visitors to the T-Bucket Forums. 
As you can see, the total number just keeps growing, day by day
And, as you can see in this graph, our membership count continues to climb. The membership count is one that we’re really amazed to see. When we first considered setting up the T-Bucket Forums, we realized this was likely going to be a very small niche forum. Our initial estimates on total membership was in the neighborhood of 200 members. We’re now approaching our 500th members!
We mentioned a few weeks back that we had installed a new piece of software, called vBSEO. The entire purpose of using vBSEO is to be as effective as we can be with our Search Engine 
Optimization (SEO) tactics. It all comes back to trying to get the search engines to notice us. Frankly, the vBSEO script is not cheap, so we worked as hard as we could to attract the search engines, without spending any money. But the results we’re now seeing, after adding vBSEO, prove the script is worth every bit of the money spent. This last graph shows the number of search engine visits we are seeing each day. And look how it continues to climb!
Some of the changes made to the T-Bucket Forums have come about because of the wonderful support we have been able to receive from the site sponsors and member donations. The truth of the matter is that we simply could not afford to do some of the things we’ve been able to do, had companies like Spirit Industries, Ron Pope Motorsports and Total Performance not been willing to support the forums with their advertising dollars.
And this doesn’t mention the donations we’ve received from our own forum members. Every time you log into the T-Bucket Forums, remember to thank members like Bill Pederson, datonamanmike, der Spieler, LumenAl, RocknT, Tbucit, tfeverfred and Youngster for helping us to pay the hosting expenses with KnownHost. Every time you learn a bit of information from the GARS Articles forums, remember our sponsors and donors provided that script for us to use. Every time you realize that our growing membership is helping to make the T-Bucket Forums such a valuable source of information, remember that we couldn’t afford scripts like vBSEO on our own.
The T-Bucket Forums went live on 21 October 2006. On 13 January 2007, after attracting only 15 members and 48 posts, we decided to throw in the towel. And now look - we’ve attracted 15 new members in the last 9 days and we’re regularly getting between 70 and 100 posts a day. I suppose this is why we’re so often amazed to see the way the site continues to grow.
To all of the members of the T-Bucket Forums, we just want to say, “Thank you!”
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