Bad Karma Posted December 17, 2018 Content Count: 478 Joined: 04/21/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 17, 2018 I frequent other gaming sites that post basic gaming news on their home page, I feel like it might bring more traffic to the forums if we can get some decent writers to post gaming news to the home page. Link to comment
floffypus Posted December 17, 2018 Content Count: 5063 Joined: 02/25/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 17, 2018 I had some ideas like this few years back when we updated vbulletin if i remember correctly. And we actually did post gaming news on the front page. But the lack of content shut that project down i think. Some of the issues were that we couldn't just copy a text from other sites regarding new games, we either needed to get the text from the developers sites, or write it our selves. I wanted to ask sites like PC Gamer if we could repost their content on our site, giving them credit and linking back to their post. 1 Link to comment
All Ts Posted December 17, 2018 Content Count: 4441 Joined: 05/28/16 Status: Offline Share Posted December 17, 2018 I'd totally write some gaming news for money per article. I want to brush up on my real writing where I can't call people cunts and motherfuckers. Link to comment
delirium Posted December 17, 2018 Content Count: 5382 Joined: 03/10/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 17, 2018 I had some ideas like this few years back when we updated vbulletin if i remember correctly. And we actually did post gaming news on the front page. But the lack of content shut that project down i think. Some of the issues were that we couldn't just copy a text from other sites regarding new games, we either needed to get the text from the developers sites, or write it our selves. I wanted to ask sites like PC Gamer if we could repost their content on our site, giving them credit and linking back to their post. Couldn't this be achieved with something such as an RSS feed or the like? 1 Link to comment
WickedZealot Posted December 18, 2018 Content Count: 760 Joined: 03/18/11 Status: Offline Share Posted December 18, 2018 For websites that allow RSS feeds, yes it could be done - not many offer it these days but is worth a look into. Link to comment
floffypus Posted December 18, 2018 Content Count: 5063 Joined: 02/25/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) Couldn't this be achieved with something such as an RSS feed or the like? With some custom programming i think so, but im not sure vbulletin and how the home page is set up works that way. When we used the front page for news, posts/threads had to be made in a certain sub-forum, and the home page would display these posts/threads from that specific sub-forum. I might remember this completely wrong. I definitely think this is something we should look into again. This could be a great way to give a healthy growth to the community, and gives people more reasons to visit our site. One thing i never got the time to look much into is SEO, and how well we do in google searches, but posting gaming news could make us show up in google searches more often. I think i barely scratched the surface regarding SEO when we/i looked into google analytics for our site, and if i remember correctly we dont have much SEO at all since we have disabled HTML and CSS for threads and posts. Edited December 20, 2018 by floffypus Link to comment
eXtr3m3 Posted March 3, 2019 Content Count: 5108 Joined: 06/29/13 Status: Offline Share Posted March 3, 2019 We overall felt that we would rather leave it up to the individuals who want to post threads about their favorite games on here. Overall, we felt that people who care enough about keeping up to date with gaming news would look into the news on their own via Reddit or other sources. Rejected. Link to comment
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