Twitter?

[C.C.]

Do you guys have a twitter account?

[laurens]

I have a twitter account, but never "twit". I use it to keep track of stuff like bands that announce tours and stuff.

[Banedon]

Yeah...I have it just to read some beat reporters and that kind of thing. But I'm not actively tweeting.

[Derwood]

i think he was asking if NSBB had a twitter account (or 312Sports)

[OleMissCub]

I don't understand how twitter works. Do you get a text message when someone you follow posts a tweet?

[C.C.]

i think he was asking if NSBB had a twitter account (or 312Sports)

 

Yes, this...

 

If not I suggest you guys get one.

[Guest]

i think he was asking if NSBB had a twitter account (or 312Sports)

 

Yes, this...

 

If not I suggest you guys get one.

nsbbcom (someone already had nsbb) and 312sports. Since most of the article activity is driven by 312sports, that's the active twitter account.

 

Don't know if you care, but I also have one for jawdle. It's not hooked up yet, but we'll be setting up the programming to automatically tweet when someone creates a new game fairly soon.

[C.C.]

I'd also suggest Facebook. At least activate the facebook "like" system. It's quite q powerful system for getting the word out and creating back-links. We just installed Twitter and the like system on my phpbb3 board, so it's doable. We are getting close to getting the facebook connect working like we have on my highdefjunkies.com site. In this social day and age it's a must for business.

[Guest]

In this social day and age it's a must for business.

 

 

Or at the very least, to waste a lot of effort making it look like you're savvy.

[C.C.]

In this social day and age it's a must for business.

 

 

Or at the very least, to waste a lot of effort making it look like you're savvy.

 

It's not wasted effort if the end results gains you more traffic flow. Better then the alternative of not doing anything, no? The purpose of message boards is to build communities and traffic flow, which in return is more attractive to potential advertisers. I shouldn't have to tell you that.

[Guest]

I'd also suggest Facebook. At least activate the facebook "like" system. It's quite q powerful system for getting the word out and creating back-links. We just installed Twitter and the like system on my phpbb3 board, so it's doable. We are getting close to getting the facebook connect working like we have on my highdefjunkies.com site. In this social day and age it's a must for business.

Are you using a mod or custom development?

[Guest]

In this social day and age it's a must for business.

 

 

Or at the very least, to waste a lot of effort making it look like you're savvy.

 

It's not wasted effort if the end results gains you more traffic flow. Better then the alternative of not doing anything, no? The purpose of message boards is to build communities and traffic flow, which in return is more attractive to potential advertisers. I shouldn't have to tell you that.

 

People who follow through second hand links from social media are not the people who buy from you or become long time members or whatever your goal is for your site. It's not completely worthless, but it's about 20 rungs lower on the priority list than the popular perception(I started a business/web site, better get myself on Facebook and Twitter!). Content is king.

[UMFan83]

Im hijacking this into my dumb questions about Twitter that I don't understand because I'm not a twitterphile

 

How come sometimes I'll go to someone's page and it will say their latest post was made "less than 5 seconds ago", when clearly it wasn't. I'll come back 20 minutes later and it will say the same thing. Is that something you can select on your tweets to make it look like its fresh content?

[Guest]

In this social day and age it's a must for business.

 

 

Or at the very least, to waste a lot of effort making it look like you're savvy.

 

It's not wasted effort if the end results gains you more traffic flow. Better then the alternative of not doing anything, no? The purpose of message boards is to build communities and traffic flow, which in return is more attractive to potential advertisers. I shouldn't have to tell you that.

 

People who follow through second hand links from social media are not the people who buy from you or become long time members or whatever your goal is for your site. It's not completely worthless, but it's about 20 rungs lower on the priority list than the popular perception(I started a business/web site, better get myself on Facebook and Twitter!). Content is king.

It's also a matter of getting ranked highly in search engines, though. If you get a bunch of links coming in from facebook/twitter, it helps your page rank a lot.

[C.C.]

In this social day and age it's a must for business.

 

 

Or at the very least, to waste a lot of effort making it look like you're savvy.

 

It's not wasted effort if the end results gains you more traffic flow. Better then the alternative of not doing anything, no? The purpose of message boards is to build communities and traffic flow, which in return is more attractive to potential advertisers. I shouldn't have to tell you that.

 

People who follow through second hand links from social media are not the people who buy from you or become long time members or whatever your goal is for your site. It's not completely worthless, but it's about 20 rungs lower on the priority list than the popular perception(I started a business/web site, better get myself on Facebook and Twitter!). Content is king.

 

You are clueless...Please stop.

[Guest]

Haha, okay. Think about it, where do you find places on the web that you return to/purchase from over and over again? Is it from places that your facebook friends "liked"? And more importantly, how often do you see those links to sites and places you haven't heard of and they don't have any quality in features/content/depth of content, yet they have regular twitter and facebook updates promoting their wares?

[C.C.]

Haha, okay. Think about it, where do you find places on the web that you return to/purchase from over and over again? Is it from places that your facebook friends "liked"? And more importantly, how often do you see those links to sites and places you haven't heard of and they don't have any quality in features/content/depth of content, yet they have regular twitter and facebook updates promoting their wares?

 

That has nothing to do with it. Dude, the point is to create back links to your website. The more back links the higher the ranking and it makes your sight more searchable. When you hit "like" what does it do? It creates a link to the persons facebook that directs back to your page. Now lets say 1000 people hit your like key, you just went viral. You know have 1000 links that link back to your site. Social networking is getting very big.

 

One more tip. In chrome hit CTRL F. Type in Chicago Cubs how many times is this mentioned on your forum home page? Google bots read text and associate the word to your website, thus helps you become more searchable. You should be saying: Chicago Cubs Game Threads, Chicago Cubs Discussion. Ad Chicago Cubs in every single description...etc...

[Guest]

That has nothing to do with it. Dude, the point is to create back links to your website. The more back links the higher the ranking and it makes your sight more searchable. When you hit "like" what does it do? It creates a link to the persons facebook that directs back to your page. Now lets say 1000 people hit your like key, you just went viral. You know have 1000 links that link back to your site. Social networking is getting very big.

 

Getting 1000 people to your site one time is not nearly as valuable as getting 10 people to visit your site 100 times, or even 100 people to visit 10 times. To reiterate, social networking is not a worthless activity, but so many people place way way way too much emphasis on it for business.

[C.C.]

That has nothing to do with it. Dude, the point is to create back links to your website. The more back links the higher the ranking and it makes your sight more searchable. When you hit "like" what does it do? It creates a link to the persons facebook that directs back to your page. Now lets say 1000 people hit your like key, you just went viral. You know have 1000 links that link back to your site. Social networking is getting very big.

 

Getting 1000 people to your site one time is not nearly as valuable as getting 10 people to visit your site 100 times, or even 100 people to visit 10 times. To reiterate, social networking is not a worthless activity, but so many people place way way way too much emphasis on it for business.

It's also for search-ability and ranking, which generates more traffic. How do you know those 1000 people only visit 1 time? Sure it's not as huge as site optimization (ex. second paragraph), but it helps. Just curious...Why do you think business and websites place too much emphasis on the like button, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc... I mean just about every website uses this. I guess we all are just wasting our time, eh?

[Guest]

That has nothing to do with it. Dude, the point is to create back links to your website. The more back links the higher the ranking and it makes your sight more searchable. When you hit "like" what does it do? It creates a link to the persons facebook that directs back to your page. Now lets say 1000 people hit your like key, you just went viral. You know have 1000 links that link back to your site. Social networking is getting very big.

 

Getting 1000 people to your site one time is not nearly as valuable as getting 10 people to visit your site 100 times, or even 100 people to visit 10 times. To reiterate, social networking is not a worthless activity, but so many people place way way way too much emphasis on it for business.

Advertisers would rather have 1000 people see their ads once than 10 people see the same ad 100 times.

[Banedon]

That has nothing to do with it. Dude, the point is to create back links to your website. The more back links the higher the ranking and it makes your sight more searchable. When you hit "like" what does it do? It creates a link to the persons facebook that directs back to your page. Now lets say 1000 people hit your like key, you just went viral. You know have 1000 links that link back to your site. Social networking is getting very big.

 

Getting 1000 people to your site one time is not nearly as valuable as getting 10 people to visit your site 100 times, or even 100 people to visit 10 times. To reiterate, social networking is not a worthless activity, but so many people place way way way too much emphasis on it for business.

Advertisers would rather have 1000 people see their ads once than 10 people see the same ad 100 times.

 

Right. TT might be right if you were selling something here at the site, but with pure advertising as revenue, it's number of eyeballs that is most needed.