Just like everyone else, it took me a good day just to get over Friday nights drinking. Well early to bed last night, actually that’s a lie as I didn’t get off the Xbox from about 13:30 yesterday till 4:30am this morning. Anyway might as well make a use of  the Sunday. First task was to tidy up the forum on www.ClassicCarLink.com. If I’ve learned anything in the last few weeks; it’s you can’t assume that people know how your site works. We put up a number of examples but instead of posting their own threads the users were commenting in existing threads. Now we’ve removed any examples and created the owners original thread discussions. Ok what am I going on about is really boring shit, basically we had clubs as well where users can find areas of interests such as specific car models and makes rather than everyone talking @ once. Once I created a few clubs within the first ten minutes a user signed up to MG Club and started posting specific questions.

You can’t assume people are using your website correctly which is why you really need to understand your Google Analytics. I’ve been following the top entry pages, bounce rates and exit pages. We worked out users spent more time on the pictures page so we put a flash player on the front page which rotates all the new content. We noticed people were bouncing off the Clubs page because either one they didn’t understand it or two because there was no content.  After adding content there has already been an influx of traffic to those pages. Also what’s quite strange is we found a small pocket of followers in Belgium but there are no traffic sources to suggest a forum or email link. I assume it’s being discussed at an event and it’s already spreading throughout the country. It might only be small numbers at the moment but it’s all reassuring that people want to talk about it. Again this is probably pretty boring for anyone that came across this article by accident but over the last four years I’ve used my blog as a good source to remember what I’ve done, whats worked, not worked or what’s just been fun.

One thing I regret that I was thinking about on 00:01 New Years day was I’ve never took any photos of any of the places I’ve been. I have about five photos on my Face Book profile, I need to work on recording 2011 better. If you have a iPhone check out this www.Path.com, it allows you record and save ten seconds of your life in small videos and share with friends and family. It’s actually quite cool.

Oh last one, if you have a bar code scanner app, check this out:

It’s a new site called www.JumpScan.com which allows users to create a mini social profile with links to your other sites by scanning the code above with your mobile. I love all this new technology.

Oh I added another tutorial: