April 15th. 2011 Update
The daily forums posting/new members stats here are taken by me each day at different times. There may be a 20 hour gap between each days stats, or 27 hours or whatever depending on when I have time to check them.
Recent Posting/New Member Stats
April 15th. 09.30am EST time. 20 hours since I last checked:
GWRRA: 228 new posts, 8 new members
GL1800 Riders: 975 new posts, 8 new members
Goldwingfacts.com: 1,112 new posts, 18 new members
Riders Rally: 12 new posts, 0 new members
Naked Goldwings: 243 new posts, 11 new members
Classic Wings: 0 new posts, 0 new members
Goldwing Owners.com: 77 new posts, 6 new members
North American Goldwings: 92 new posts, 5 new members
Goldwingdocs.com: 62 new posts, * 52 new members
GL1200 Goldwings: 37 new posts, 1 new members
Some notes:
Goldwingfacts.com and GL1800Riders with the highest daily post rates as usual. Goldwingfacts.com is starting to outstrip GL1800Riders on post counts on more days each month compared to a couple of years ago, as an example the last three days have shown the Irish owned hobby forum passed the mighty Honda vendor owned colossus on post numbers. This may not last as GL1800Riders usually turns over an average of 1,500 posts every day, and is currently seeing some unusually slow under 1,000 post days. Also, goldwingfacts.com is having some exceptionally busy days lately and getting over the 1,000 post mark more often. Along with the consistently higher daily member sign-ups, this indicates that while GL1800Riders is still the largest Goldwing forum on post numbers, the forum still growing at the fastest rate is Goldwingfacts.com.
Naked Goldwings continues to impress, most days showing 250+ posts and good new member sign-up numbers.
GWRRA had a good day yesterday with over 600 posts, falling back today to 228. New member sign-up rates are decent enough, but nowhere near what they were in the old days.
* Member stats for this forum are not to be trusted, as fake members continue to be added to the database at a rate of at least 40 each day. Even casual visitors will see they are fake as they don't appear in the "who's online" panel at any time when they are registered or afterwards.
2 comments:
It shouldn't be surprising that Goldwingfacts.com outpaces GL1800 Riders. GL1800 Riders pretty much confines itself to the the GL1800 model, with a smattering or GL1500and Harley related posts. Goldwingfacts derives a significant number of posts from GL1000-GL1500 owners.
Anonymous said...
It shouldn't be surprising that Goldwingfacts.com outpaces GL1800 Riders. GL1800 Riders pretty much confines itself to the the GL1800 model, with a smattering or GL1500and Harley related posts. Goldwingfacts derives a significant number of posts from GL1000-GL1500 owners.
If it comes to that, many other forums also cater to all Goldwing owners and models, but none of them are seeing anywhere near the same level of posting, general activity or visitor numbers in comparison. Examples are Goldwingowners, wingridersboard (which I am currently reviewing), NAGF and others.
By your own measure, we can compare GL1800Riders to Brian Fenner's Riders Rally forum which is also specifically for GL1800 owners, but performs dismally in comparison to GL1800Riders.
The bottom line is that both GL1800Riders and goldwingfacts are the golden eggs in terms of Goldwing keyword value, and they are the top two in dollar value for potential advertisers. Slightly OT but relevant: I believe GL1800Riders under price their banner adverts. They could do better than $50 per month for a banner, even during the current economic uncertainties.
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