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lookie here, mentioned by name and collection.
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I think this one is way more awesome. http://www.spfreaks.com is being linked from China!
http://q.blog.sina.com.cn/pumpkins
(For those that don’t read Chinese, we are in the 3rd column, 6th section, middle link).
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And on this Italian website we are linked also, together with Hipsters United!
http://recepcja.wordpress.com/ (see Blogroll section top right)
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hey your also listed on this really cool/dumb blog
http://bulletwoutbutterflywings.blogspot.com/
oh, wait that one is mine.
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Cool bullet!
I found out a few other funny things, while researching the behaviour of our 25,000+ visitors since April 22, 2007. In the past year and 2 months, the most wanted page was the homepage, well that’s not a surprise I guess. But read on.
Most popular categories with 1,000 or more hits:
1. CD (Official): 14,454
2. Vinyl (Official): 3,860
3. CD (Non-Official): 2,413
4. Cassettes: 1,602
5. Clothing (Official): 1,574
6. Posters (Concert): 1,315
7. Misc.: 1,069But then, our 5 most popular items:
1. http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=1620 (Zeitgeist promo, VERY closely followed by:)
2. http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=1100 (MCIS genuine vinyl)
3. http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=282 (Mashed Potatoes)
4. http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=1628 (Gish long box)
5. http://www.spfreaks.com/?page=COLLDETAILS&item=2117 (MCIS fake vinyl)What we see here is that our discussions & homepage article about the Mellon Collie vinyl attracted quite some visitors! Is this cool or is this cool! I think it is very cool indeed!
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Cool bullet!
I found out a few other funny things, while researching the behaviour of our 25,000+ visitors since April 22, 2007. In the past year and 2 months, the most wanted page was the homepage, well that’s not a surprise I guess. But read on.
What we see here is that our discussions & homepage article about the Mellon Collie vinyl attracted quite some visitors! Is this cool or is this cool! I think it is very cool indeed!
[/quote:2hhcjgel]Very cool. You should update this more often. I’m curious what people are looking at, and if/when/how it changes.
But nice!
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do you read Chinese or something Arthur, or did someone just tell you?[/quote:ukicosnx]
That page was in our referrer history with a few hits, and I quickly browsed that page to see where SPfreaks was mentioned… yay for the gish longbox! partay!
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Yeah, I was surprised too about this one. Obviously it was linked and referred quite a few times since it’s online, which is not that long. Partay! Another biertje, Cool As Ice Cream? Very cool. You should update this more often. I’m curious what people are looking at, and if/when/how it changes.[/quote:ukicosnx]
Agree, but go figure. I need to write SQL scripts like this to order that big mess of data. And I’m not that good in writing SQL scripts… USE spf_website
SELECT SUBSTRING(href, CHARINDEX(‘?page=’, href), 255) AS VisitPage, COUNT_BIG (SUBSTRING(href, CHARINDEX(‘?page=’, href) + 6, 255)) AS [Count]
FROM dbo.tblSiteTrack
WHERE (CHARINDEX(‘?page=’, href) >= 0) AND requestTime>=’04/22/2007′ AND requestTime<’06/29/2008′
GROUP BY SUBSTRING(href, CHARINDEX(‘?page=’, href), 255)
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OK, as requested by manillascissor, here are a few more figures of the past year.
We have reached 2,544 items and 6,591 pics. For comparison, http://www.my-mistake.net/infinitepics/ have collected \"Image Count: 4,452\" since 1997. And what about our visitors?
Most people, 64.5% of the almost 26,000 visitors, get to SPfreaks.com by themselves, not by clicking on links somewhere else. They must have us in their internet favourites, or something. But the rest of 35.5% gets to us via so-called referrers. So who are these referrers, that are linking to us?
38.2% of the links come from (surprise, surprise): Netphoria. They linked us 263 times on the forum and 5 times in private messages. Top 5 heavily clicked articles from Netphoria:
1. http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=155411 (over 350 different visitors!)
2. http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=149756
3. http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=152535
4. http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=146849
5. http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=15134714.0% of the links come from… Google! When people searched for \"spfreaks\", \"sp freaks\", \"True Power. True Faith.\", \"Mellon collie red vinyl\" or even \"mellon collie fake\" then they came across our website. Cool!
12.6% of the people that got referred to us, came from http://www.smashingpumpkins.com . News items like:
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/membernews_3351 (over 250 different visitors!)
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/membernews_1077
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_4019attracted hundreds and hundreds of readers to http://www.SPfreaks.com . Nice!
Some other places like Blamo, ThePumpkins.net, Wikipedia (13 fixed links already!), eBay (MCIS 8M award for example!) and Zombtracker also linked us many times, but each of them is less than 5% of the total referrer links. But pretty cool anyway, I think we can be proud that places like Wikipedia and eBay slowly know how to find us.
Now I have to ask RedWolf how to check on the Countries where they all come from. I’m sure it’s in this mess of IP addresses somewhere, but having them translated to a country… Not my job! OK, hope to get back on that one.
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Hey Arthur,
Talked to Aaron today, he’s going to link you on the site also. He’s just lazy sometimes
Just wandered over here to see what you’ve got and looks excellent.[/quote:3uq18zhx]Thanks, with pleasure. Come back any time. And send lazy Aaron my humble regards, he’s around 3 times longer than we are, so we really pay tribute to him!
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More and more Wikipedia links to us…
This one I like the most for the moment. First single release of Smashing Pumpkins and 2 links on 1 page!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_One
And those 2 are cool too, as we seem to be the only reference?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestfallen
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More wikipedia links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_(T … pkins_song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_DreamJust in case you didn’t know about them.
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yeah, i’ve been all over wikipedia for SP stuff. when i was first wanting to know more about the SP back in the day, i read the whole thing- all of it. i wanted to know how many songs and releases they had, because i wanted them all. that was before i knew about all of the SP sites with better info.
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Linked (very much directly) in the new PMM article (http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_5226)
aaaand we’re acknowledged even further by them! They put effort into including us! I mean, look at this picture:
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Talk about modest
You have some pretty unique info that no other SP sites have. I spent quite a bit of time meandering around the site. It’s pretty obvious how much work has been put in to it and so it’ll be showcased. Take your quasi-celebrity status and enjoy it! Or hide from it like some of us….That… is pretty cool indeed. Being mentioned together on the same line with those other 3 that are 100 times bigger member-wise, it really means something.
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http://www.ozphoria.com/ linked us in a homepage article (scroll down a bit) called
Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin interview on Mancow.com
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http://www.ozphoria.com/ linked us in a homepage article (scroll down a bit) called
Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin interview on Mancow.com
Manilla found that interview and published it here, and quickly SP.com and Ozphoria followed… [/quote:r4hk8aez]damn straight
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Bah, I’m just getting slow in my old age. Why back in my day, I walked barefoot 3 hours uphill to the library in the snow, so I could log on with a 14.4 connection and update Siva. Young whippersnappers always showing up the old school crowd.
http://www.ozphoria.com/ linked us in a homepage article (scroll down a bit) called
Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin interview on Mancow.com
Manilla found that interview and published it here, and quickly SP.com and Ozphoria followed… [/quote:1n50atxn]damn straight[/quote:1n50atxn]
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Someone stole our name… partly.
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Little update on who is linking us, and what causes the most traffic to our site. Status report over 07/01/08 till now.
#1 without any doubts: SP.com. With several SP news – and PMM articles about us, we jumped to the next level of daily traffic. The 2 most remarkable referring articles were, the one that manillascissor wrote about the new feature called \"My Collection\" (which attracted several hundreds of visitors) but the absolute blockbuster was, of course, the art contest we did on here. Another thing that manilla initiated. It attracted almost 2,000 individual visitors…
#2 Netphoria. Needs no further introduction… We still need to move the serious collectors from their forum to here, I guess.
#3 HipstersUnited. They mention us every now and then in their blogs, and it helps big times.
#4 Wikipedia. More and more releases and songs contain links to SPfreaks.com, and it works. Dozens and dozens of people use them to check us out.
#5 ThePumpkins.net. I was a little surprised to see this name pop up in the Top 5, as I expected that the Forums of Blamo would be above the TP.net Forums. But fact is, we have several members from here that pay regular visits to TP.net, and probably they link back to us every now and then. Keep it up, people!
All in all, it means that we have grown from an average of 50-60 visitors per day 1 year ago to 100-125 visitors per day for the Collection website now. The new feature called My Collection was 1 of the biggest success factors of course, and the art contest also. The art contest contributed big times to the SPfreaks Forum visits. As a result, the posts on the forum have grown in numbers quite rapidly also, from 30 per day average a year ago, till 60 to150 (sometimes more!) posts per day now. The average posts per day since we started this forum in July 2007, recently jumped over the 40 figure, and is on 40.83 today.
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As a result, the posts on the forum have grown in numbers quite rapidly also, from 30 per day average a year ago, till 60 to150 (sometimes more!) posts per day now. The average posts per day since we started this forum in July 2007, recently jumped over the 40 figure, and is on 40.83 today.[/quote:3rdwr2zn]
we are chatty
and yeah, when they talk about the odd item on tp.net someone usually finds the link over here and pastes it there. plus a few freakies like myself frequent the place.
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do the banners that culthero helped us with help?[/quote:9hqdg193]
Yes, absolutely! All those clicks from several posts on the SP.com Forum together, run into the few dozens already. But compared to the SP.com total of many thousands of visitors that come to our site via a link in a PMM article, it’s still a rather small number… But I’m sure that will change in the next analysis, since the SP.com forum just started… -
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well there really wasn’t that much for me to do, and you all are scarce when i want to be on the computer, and there wasn’t many people over there, just me and a few people talking back and forth.
oh and ther eis a new thread about what other boards you are on, so i talked up the site here some, and said everyone would be welcome here.
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oh and ther eis a new thread about what other boards you are on, so i talked up the site here some, and said everyone would be welcome here.[/quote:1js6id1n]
people are welcome, but only as long as they behave themselves, ie. no Netphoria style bashing.
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no, they are way better now that others have been getting banned, i think the worst one is pasta, otherwise known as geek nz to you czarina. and the gen disc board is a bit wacky, but they do post alot in other sections and have valid points. they know when to be crazy and when not to be.
plus there are some really funny people over there. and they are nice too, watermellonchip threw me a dance party cause i got over 600 posts. i love dance parties, even though i can’t dance. wasn’t as neat as arthurs bbq (wink wink) but it was nice.
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no, they are way better now that others have been getting banned, i think the worst one is pasta, otherwise known as geek nz to you czarina. and the gen disc board is a bit wacky, but they do post alot in other sections and have valid points. they know when to be crazy and when not to be.
plus there are some really funny people over there. and they are nice too, watermellonchip threw me a dance party cause i got over 600 posts. i love dance parties, even though i can’t dance. wasn’t as neat as arthurs bbq (wink wink) but it was nice.[/quote:2u1x3fni]
Arthur’s bbq if i remember was more of a lesbian thing and therefore more of an Arthur thing.
and i do think they have improved and slowed down some. and some of the discussion is perfectly fine. i like some of the people there and i post there a bit. i just don’t have too much time to add another board. i’m sure i will be around there more once the semester is over.
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I just did a little inquiry on SP.com on how many times the other wellknown Smashing Pumpkins websites are being discussed, mentioned and linked to on SP.com. I was a little, but very pleasantly nevertheless, surprised…
SPfreaks – 327 times
Netphoria – 230 times
ThePumpkins.net – 175 times
SPFC – 165 times
HipstersUnited – 92 times
Ozphoria – 76 times
Siva (Blamo.org) – 57 times
RSPAA – 54 times
BCIT – 33 times
Starla – 21 times
InfinitePics – 21 times
SPLRA – 12 times
SPIFC – 12 timesWhat conclusion comes to mind now?
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that we rawk!
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Big times! But, to put things a little in perspective again, I seperately counted the number of topics on the SP.com boards where these very same websites are mentioned, just to get an idea how "general" and "widespread" these other websites are. Not surprisingly, we are not #1 in that poll, as we are mainly mentioned in the "Live Recordings / Collecting / Trading" section of the SP.com boards.
SPFC – 83 topics
ThePumpkins.net – 81 topics
RSPAA – 57 topics
Netphoria – 54 topics
SPfreaks – 43 topics
Siva (Blamo.org) – 40 topics
SPLRA – 27 topics
InfinitePics – 23 topics
Ozphoria – 16 topics
HipstersUnited – 13 topics
Starla – 5 topics
BCIT – 2 topics
SPIFC – 1 topicOK, so far my freaky research. I like my first post about this anyway! I did not expect this outcome!
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Now, you guys just HAVE to read this. We are being mentioned in a commercial advertisement for a job application as a website programmer. They use us as an example of a pretty good website that should be partly re-programmed for this advertiser… Awesome!
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OK, so how are we doing, traffic wise? Alexa.com tells us.
We, SPfreaks.com, are # 4,130,620 on the Alexa Traffic Rank.
And what about our fellow Smashing Pumpkins websites on the Alexa Traffic Rank? How do they rank? And since when are they online? All known info from Alexa below. I put in some of the venues where the Smashing Pumpkins played in the early days (1988), just for fun & reference…
# 45,195 SmashingPumpkins.com (22-May-1998)
# 256,136 Netphoria.org (30-Jan-1998)
# 335,573 MetroChicago.com (02-Oct-1996)
# 375,115 HipstersUnited.com (unknown)
# 627,793 DoubleDoor.com (21-Oct-1996)
# 769,609 SPFC.org (07-Jun-1998)
# 966,181 SmashingPumpkins.com.ar (unknown)
# 1,698,327 ThePumpkins.net (07-Feb-2006)
# 2,068,055 ExitChicago.com (11-Jul-1997)
# 2,562,767 BillyCorgan.it (18-Sep-2003)
# 2,859,993 Blamo.org (21-Sep-1999)
# 2,925,374 Billy-Corgan.com (28-Feb-2000)
# 3,428,810 Pumpkins.it (22-May-2000)
# 4,130,620 SPfreaks.com (14-Apr-2003) *1
# 5,158,281 MellonCollie.net (10-Jun-2003)
# 5,674,297 Starla.org (03-Jul-1997)
# 6,275,610 Landslide.2007.org (04-Jan-1999)
# 8,461,238 LivePumpkins.net (unknown)
# 10,180,147 SPLRA.org (23-Mar-2005)
# 16,896,187 BillyCorgan.com (17-Jan-2000)
# 22,482,173 SPIFC.org (12-Feb-1999)
# 24,061,216 PoetsOfZwan.org (27-Nov-2001)
# 25,615,396 Ozphoria.com (unknown)Worthwhile to mention: # 461 Elpumpko.Tripod.com (29-Sep-1994) *2. No known websites for Chicago 21, Avalon and Annie May Swift Hall. Top keywords driving traffic to SPfreaks.com from search engines, according to Alexa:
-mellon collie red vinyl
-chicago tapes and unreleased demos
-dpro 11555 smashing pumpkins
-the hero needs eggs jayne cobb
-panic founder interview
-smashing pumpkins 92 poster
-smashing pumpkins
-tsp hub netphoria
-blueczarina
-horus zeiggeist* 1
Online since-info not listed on Alexa.com.* 2
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People are always looking for you, obviously cool research arthur.
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Thanks. I happen to come across that Alexa site by accident, but it has pretty cool info. About the statistics, I was surprised to see HU and SP.com.ar so high, and Ozphoria so low in the ranks.And about our position… there are over 230,000,000 websites worldwide (see: ), so we are in the top 1.8% of the internet worldwide. Just to put things in a global perspective…
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i think it was you guys trying to find pictures of me
epic fail [/quote:3l58o9rt]
I think you misunderstand. Since there are no pics of you online (as far as we know), and certainly not on our website, they can and will not be directed to our website via a search engine when they enter "blueczarina" in there, for a picture search. Epic fail explanation, blue.But the question remains anyway, why so many people search for you, blue… Are you lost?
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I think you misunderstand. Since there are no pics of you online (as far as we know), and certainly not on our website, they can and will not be directed to our website via a search engine when they enter "blueczarina" in there, for a picture search. Epic fail explanation, blue.
[/quote:cl5if7ss]look at this Arthur
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We have a nice link on the completely restyled BCIT also.
http://www.billycorgan.it/links.asp
That page is a pretty good source to other SP websites also.
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I was checking where the 500+ hits today are coming from, which is an absolute record so far, since we are normally on approx. 100 unique visitors per day these days
, but it are the obvious places that link to us again… then I checked the total hits last year, and I found a few funny places that link to us (not SPfreaks’ Renditions Live Compilation-related).http://www.douban.com/group/topic/7182648/ (who can read this?
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And what’s awesome too… Google finds SPfreaks over 29,000 times already.
And I found a funny but weird site that links to us.
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In my neverending eager to search for places where we are being linked, these 2 extra Wikipedia articles that link to SPfreaks.com came to my attention. I think it is very cool, when a respectable place like Wikipedia takes us seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashi … iscography (we are linked 4 times, SPFC 2 times…
)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Smashing_Pumpkins (links to our NUGS.NET interview
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We’re the #10 Top Site worldwide about Smashing Pumpkins
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We’re the #10 Top Site worldwide about Smashing Pumpkins
http://www.xmarks.com/topic/sites/1/smashing_pumpkins[/quote:dyuqjytz]
that must be quite an old list. rspaa is still on it, but they haven’t been around for a long time now.
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Make sure you type the URL of our site correctly! Or not, and have a lot of South Park fun here!
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And what about our reputation?
http://www.robtex.com/dns/*.spfreaks.com.html
Reputation of *.spfreaks.com:
Source: WOT
Result: Trustworthiness and privacy of this site is good. Vendor reliability and child safety is excellent.Source: BLACKLIST
Result: not listed in any blacklists
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