I use popups on my archive and i'm making quite a bit of money from it. Have a lost some potential members because of them? Most definately. I never have liked popups, but I do get a bit tired of everyone telling me to remove them. My main forums have no banner ads, no pop up windows and no advertising what-so-ever. The archive has popups. So what, people join the forums and they are all gone. If someone sees the popups and closes the site because of them, well, they just made me $0.008. Sure, i'd like more members, but tons of members doesn't do any good when you don't have enough money to pay for hosting. If others can run sites without popup windows, then kudos to them... but my site is gaming related and a forum, and no advertising company will accept me. Furthermore, gaming advertising sells for virtually nothing, therefore, i'm left with popups or selling my site :/

Just explaining why I use popups. If others don't want to use them, I understand and if they offend you in anyway, then please, don't visit my archive :D

I didn't mean to offend you. I was really curious as to trying to get a handle on ratios of people coming to a live forum via the archive. And if pop-ups on archive pages were distracted people and made them not want to sign up.

SkuZZy, PM or email me. I might be able to host your site. It's the least I can do for you since because of your hack our site is getting tons of traffic and we are listed to the max (lol) in Google.

I wasn't offended, that was mainly directed towards xenon though :D I just wish people would stop telling other people what to do. It's like that hack Teck released, the pop-up windows for unregistered members. People spammed the thread with stuff about it being unethical and how you force your members to sign up and blah blah blah. Why can't people just mind their own business. Not saying xenon said anything wrong... maybe i'm just a little quick to pull the trigger this morning :D

Thanks for the offer on hosting, but battleforums does take alot of resources and we just moved hosts 3 days ago. My hosting actually doesn't cost that much (I make it seem worse than it is). But battleforums does use alot of resources, getting about 12,000 unique visitors (thanks google), 100,000 page views & 700,000 hits per day it's using about 65GB of bandwidth a month using GZIP and it's taking up alot of load on my current server... so I would not expect anyone to host it for free, but thanks for the offer :D

SkuZZy

By the way, you do have an insane amount of pages in google! Over 8000 listed. Good job :D - How much traffic does your site get per day?

I have 4 servers colo'd at my friends ISP. So if it becomes an issue for you let me know.

ThrillNetwork.com transfers over 85 gigs. We do 150,000 unique visitors per month. With over 1.7 mil page views. :) And we don't make any money!!! lol. Our big problem is stickyness. We are working very hard on that now. Building better content and easier navigation. Getting rid of pop-ups has helped with this. Also going ad free on the Index page of the main site.

How do we find the actual amount of Pages listed in Google? Do you think you might be able to help with our other Coaster/Park Database archive?

@Skuzzy: i really understand your decicions why to use popus.
My post was never meant to offend anyone of you, i just answered cklaszlo's question what i think about the popups.

It's always the admins decision wether to use popups or not.
In my personal opinion i don't like em and close most of the sites immediately when i saw popups, but there are others who don't :)

I just wanted to show cklaszlo the other side of the sword :)

@Skuzzy-

This hack really screws up the who's online. A possible fix? I added FireFly's add who's online from the admin cp, but it won't work with these archive .html files.

it seems everyone is getting indexed but me ... :(

am i not being patient enough? i had the hack installed on 01/10

site:destee.com archive

i had Overgrow's or Fastforward's hack installed at:

http://www.destee.com/forums/archive

but replaced it with Teck's hack tonight

my Skuzzy hack is at http://www.destee.com/forums/archives

::::::sigh:::::: i've installed them all ... :cry:

:)

Destee

same. i want to join in on the party! my index is at wcgateway.com/forums/archive and i belive im the only one that has even seen it. i submitted the url "http://www.wcgateway.com/forums/archive" to google but i have not been index. help me and destee out!

@Javazoid: from what i can see you don't have a link to the archive on your forumhome.

Spiders can just index reachable sites...
if it's a 1x1 pixel link it will be considered as urlcloaking and won't work for google for example.

i've changed my footer template from a 1x1 image to a small textlink and the ammount of searchengines rises a lot..