As we move into April A1 Business Forums are now one month old, and what a fantastic month it has been! When I launched the Forum on the last day of February I never anticipated such rapid growth!
Let’s have a recap of the statistics:
| Members | Threads | Posts | |
| Week 1 |
71 | 416 | 5600 |
| Week 2 |
124 | 785 | 11,100 |
| Week 3 |
150 | 1020 | 14,510 |
| Month 1 |
200 | 1425 | 20230 |
I’m sure you’ll agree these are quite remarkable numbers for a brand new Forum aimed at the UK’s Small Business community!
It’s also nice to round off month one by welcoming our 200th Member, Jills. It’s great to see you here!
Visitor Traffic:
I only have 3 weeks of traffic stats as we didn’t set up Google Analytics until 10th March, but here are the headlines anyway:
| Visitors | 10,700 |
| Page Views |
252,950 |
| Direct Visits |
5345 |
| Google Organic Visits | 3600 |
| Top Referring Site Visits |
595 |
The top referring site was my own Blog at A Local Printer - I didn’t realise so many people read it to be honest!
A Warm and Friendly Community
What I’m most delighted about however is the strong and warm sense of Community that is building within the Forums. It’s great to see such a close knit and friendly bunch of Members who go that extra mile to help each other out. At the end of the day it’s the Members that make a Community and I’d like to thank each and every one of you for making A1 such a brilliant place to be!
6 responses so far ↓
1 Mike Seddon // Apr 5, 2008 at 9:50 am
Great start Ray.
That’s a pretty amazing climb in forum members and what’s even more impressive is that the quality of the posts on the forum is extremely high.
Cheers
Mike
2 RayB // Apr 5, 2008 at 10:11 am
Thanks for the kind words Mike, it’s members like you that help to make the Forum such a success!
3 Mick // Apr 7, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I agree with Mike. I’ve seen forums that don’t really get past 100 users, or fake the levels. This forum has got a lot of quality and its not quiet in certain areas for days in a row which puts new users off.
4 RayB // Apr 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Thanks Mick - we sure are growing a quality forum fast thanks to the support of the members
5 Jill // Apr 18, 2008 at 1:01 pm
2000th member & no Mars Bar from Fuzzy. How disappointing! Some very talented, friendly and helpful people on A1 - it’s the place to be if your in your an existing or a start-up business. Well done Mr B and the team behind A1.
6 RayB // Apr 18, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Hi Jill, hopefully hitting the 300 mark soon!
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