How FWS gets this much traffic

[aaditya]

When ever i come here i keep on staring at the number of persons online here. hundreds of guests and around 30+ members online at anygiven time.

Can the admin team share with young webmasters like us the secret of this activity? Like where u get traffic from, how u advertise etc.

For me my biggest traffic source is FWS itself.

[x10host]

SEO, word of mouth and advertising is how they do it =)

-Auvee B.

[Robert]

Time. FWS has been online since 1998. Over the 7 years, FWS has always been #1 in the category it was created to be - free web space directory.

[rhianna]

I visit FWS whether I need free webspace or not because of the lively and interesting sub-forums.
I enjoy the variety of discussion topics at FWS and I pick up some interesting tips and learn new things from other webmasters :classic2:

[Jan]

The search engine bots contribute to a lot of "guests" :) Get good content on your forums and the googlebot might pay you a visit too :)

[aaditya]

So its the search engines, rt?

[Jan]

Mostly, I checked online users yesterday when there were 500 or so guests and most were googlebots :)

[aaditya]

You must have a lots of back links to FWS. Thats what it is needed for google bot to reach here. More road to a site more google bot they have.

[Blank Verse]

Two words...


Blank Verse.

:p

Seriously though, I know I found this place through Google, about 4 years back. I originally just wanted too much in a host for no money, but I stuck around long enough to learn a thing or two.

[Robert]

Two words...


Blank Verse.

:p

Seriously though, I know I found this place through Google, about 4 years back. I originally just wanted too much in a host for no money, but I stuck around long enough to learn a thing or two.

I knew Google was a bad thing!

[Blank Verse]

yeah...this is probably how GC originally found this place :p

[Robert]

yeah...this is probably how GC originally found this place :p

Probably. 1 person probably had mentioned "military", and when GC did a google search for "why military rules", FWS came up. :-)

[LeX]

He must've searched for "gay" and found Gayowulf. :D

[Dean]

Yeah, This forum has a extreamly high google rank.. for example
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=free+webspace+&btnG=Search
or
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=my+life+gone+&btnG=Search

[TravisL]

I have been around here since 1998, not the forums, I didnt join till much later but I originally found this place through Yahoo. When the forums came about in 2001, back when WorldZone and EpidemiK were famous here. Now I've nearly solidifed my own status here. I came here to find free hosting and got Geocities or Tripod back as my responses.

Since then this place, free and paid hosting, has evolved as my perspective on such things. I came here to just find hosting and thats it but as I grew so did my world. I've had many usernames here and for some reason this one just took.

I hope future members of this forum can kind of look up to us as we did the former members of this place ;)

[velton]

hey, robert .. since when u become Moderator..
looks like am appear from here quite sometimes ..

[Blank Verse]

oh good...you and your weird cryptic half english messages are back to confuse me.

[niv]

Confusion is a lovely thing, and so is arguing with people here. I wish GC were back :(

[Blank Verse]

Yeah, time machine to 2001-02...FWS was entertainment gold back then.

[niv]

Haha, Giancarlo vs YUPAPA...that was the best...I think? :confused:


I only love fork fork!
http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17027

[Robert]

hey, robert .. since when u become Moderator..
looks like am appear from here quite sometimes ..

Translation?!

[aaditya]

I think only time can make good contents and proficient members which makes others stay as well.

[Blank Verse]

Haha, Giancarlo vs YUPAPA...that was the best...I think? :confused:


http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17027

I was partial to the GC vs. Syd or GC vs. Bigperm battles.

[Eveready]

Yeah, This forum has a extreamly high google rank.. for example
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=free+webspace+&btnG=Search
or
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=my+life+gone+&btnG=Search
LOL @ my life gone

[R4g1ng]

Excuse me for sounding stupid but whos GC?? I think I missed a bit of FWS' history. O.o
I originally joined the forums just to request for hosting. Hey, I was like what, 11? So my only purpose on this forum was to request, get an answer, and leave. But later on, I slowly started to take interest in the whole hosting thing and making sites, so I started posting more. I've been pretty inactive lately though X.X I've joined too many forums.

[Renegade]

My life gone - rofl thats so sad ;x

[Space Ghost]

Is YUPAPA actually banned or?

I miss him :(

[Blank Verse]

nah, that's a Yupapa joke...he's not banned...he's just...busy. Playing with his candle...

[Space Ghost]

:X Better be careful not to burn himself.. ;)

[tandoc]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=my+life+gone+&btnG=Search

sorry to go off topic, BUT ROTFLMAO

[edit]
and yes, i realise that it was my thread, but HAHAHAHA - and i'm slowly getting my hdd back together...

[Neils-Shop.com]

It takes years to get the traffic FWS gets, believe me :D

[Webdude]

I remember before GC, when Ron was the annoyance :)

To tell the truth, although most of it would be arguements, this place would have quadruple the action if those two were still here.

It was always easy to rile GC up by mentioning just a few words like "the spanish Navy and their new Adobe Submarine" or "Spanish invented submarine screen doors" or "their spanish created submarine ejection seats". He would cut you down like crazy, then go into a tantrum and report you several times if you did the same back to him.

Made for some interesting threads :D

[LeX]

Oh, stop it. I'm almost starting to miss him. :rolleyes:

[Dean]

the free lesbian porn forum helps too.

[rhianna]

the free lesbian porn forum helps too.

Oh, c'mon, Dean, you know that FWS has inspired a great deal of traffic without having to depend on any porn for interest :biggrin2:

[X3r0X]

Oh, c'mon, Dean, you know that FWS has inspired a great deal of traffic without having to depend on any porn for interest :biggrin2:
Lol, good call :-)

[Blank Verse]

I remember before GC, when Ron was the annoyance :)

To tell the truth, although most of it would be arguements, this place would have quadruple the action if those two were still here.

It was always easy to rile GC up by mentioning just a few words like "the spanish Navy and their new Adobe Submarine" or "Spanish invented submarine screen doors" or "their spanish created submarine ejection seats". He would cut you down like crazy, then go into a tantrum and report you several times if you did the same back to him.

Made for some interesting threads :D


He certainly made April Fool's jokes a tad more noteworthy :p

[netaxis]

FWS is best for free web hosting even the FWT cnt beat

[Blank Verse]

what the hell is FWT?

[Jan]

Freewebtalk? Freewebhostingtalk?

[Blank Verse]

heh heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't know. Thanks Jan! :p