New web address for GOF

Petrie. · **on:** December 29, 2010, 05:31:33 PM

First of all, a big thank you to Austin (landbeforetimelover) for setting us up with a domain name. His expertise in web design is highly valued, and this change should allow us to reach more potential members through search engines - something I was never successful at doing.

You may reach the GOF through this domain:

http://www.gangoffive.net

In case you're wondering, the old, z7.invisionfree.com web address will continue to work.

Adam

Adder · **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2010, 11:41:43 PM

GOF's link can finally be put on wikipedia. Invision links were in the spam blacklist, but this is a normal domain.

It also loads faster than http://www.z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php/ did, so that's another plus about it.

Thank you Austin.

Malte279 · **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:49:35 AM

Thanks a lot Austin

Great job

Karmarsi · **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2010, 01:03:44 PM

I was silly and thought it'd be a whole new place for some reason! xD
Nice to see we can share at more places now :3 and it's true, it does load faster <3

Petrie. · **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2010, 02:12:33 PM

I see no speed differences personally. Maybe on a slower connection there is some measurable difference.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2010, 02:30:47 PM

Actually it is slightly faster. I'm guessing it's because the z7 dns is used by tens of thousands of different sites whereas the domain I purchased is only shared by a few hundred other websites. Anyway, I'm liking the change a lot. I'll start trying to rank it eventually. It will take at least a month though. I've got a few other sites to run through and honestly I can't make GOF my priority right now.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2010, 02:58:23 PM

About the "Google Ranking" thing, I'd beg to differ when it comes to one search phrase.

And that's the first page.

Maybe you were thinking of a different phrase, but this one seems to work pretty well for us.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2010, 03:16:31 PM

Actually I am thinking of a different keyphrase. Only 12 people per month search for "land before time forum" in Google. A good percentage of those people won't go past the first result, especially when the first result is in fact what they're looking for. I'm going to rank GOF for "land before time" and "the land before time" in Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's not that competitive so it should be relatively easy. I'd rank TheLandBeforeTime.org, but I don't want to draw too much attention to myself when I'm hosting the TV episodes and such. I did start trying to rank TheLandBeforeTime.org a while ago but I stopped because I realized this. I'm on page 2 in Yahoo for "land before time" and on pages 3-4 for "the land before time" in Google, Bing, and Yahoo. And it was easy as heck to get there, let me tell you. I'm just guessing here, but 10k backlinks should be enough to shoot GOF up to the top for both of those keyphrases. I only did 2k with TheLandBeforeTime.org.