Thpughts on a sticker Options

[Cragspider]

OK I remebered somebody saying that we need a sticker for the site that we can put on our cars. Well I have an Idea. Ok it would be an outline of our cars with 6GC.net inside it. I know that I have seen an outline of our cars some where on the internet. So if anybody has one or knows where to get it let me know and I will see about making one to show everybody. But for now you all will just have to use your imaginations. On the size of it, it would be as long as the Celica.net sticker so that we could put it over it or next to it.
Bryan

[Coomer]

QUOTE (kuya1284 @ Dec 17 2002, 11:02 PM)

QUOTE (Coomer @ Dec 17 2002, 09:26 PM) QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Dec 17 2002, 09:16 PM) sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that I just figured the whole point of the sticker was for people to check out this site right? so if they plug in sixthgencelica.net it won't take them anywhere. maybe we could register that domain and redirect it here, cuz I agree with you 6GC.NET in graff would look weak. I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though. Actually, registering another domain will not reduce traffic. As a matter of fact, it might be even better having more options for people to hit this site instead of 6gc.net. If you're really serious about this site, then I would recommend registering more domains that point to this. Search engines don't care about the domain name. Search engines will *spider* a site looking for keywords to index. This is why it's important to have meta tags, meta descriptions, etc. Search engine indexes are primarily based off of META words. If you really want to increase traffic, I would also recommend registering 6gc.com. Most people will use "com" instead of "net". Other domains that you can register are 6thgencelica.com/net sixthgencelica.com/net sixgencelica.com/net (These are all unregistered by the way. I just did a *whois* on all 6 as well as 6gc.com) Don't spread yourself too thin. It really wouldn't hurt to register more domains and simply have them *redirect* or *point* to 6gc.net. This will give people more ways of finding the site. Since domains are cheap to register nowadays ($8 at godaddy.com), maybe you can start taking donations to help register the other domains. That's only $48 to register 6 domains. You web hosting company may also charge a small fee to alias the domains to 6gc.net, but if you don't want to pay for that, I'm sure the registrar will allow you to redirect the domains to 6gc.net (15 dollar domains allows this). One last thing, if you want to improve placement, the only real way of doing that, as opposed to waiting months to be reindexed to the top, is to pay. I know that most people don't want to pay $50+ just to be placed at the top, but it's the most reliable way of getting there. Hope this helps. -Ray

Actually, I've heard contrary to what you're saying from many people, mainly on SitePointForums.com and AListApart.com and a couple other development sites.

If you're familiar with Google's pagerank method, you know that it takes into account the number of links pointing to your website. With one url, I know that all links to my website are going to point to that given url. If I had two urls, then half might point to one url while the other half might point to the other url, meaning that Google would only see half the number of links pointing to my site than there actually are. This would decrease pagerank, which means my page would be less likely to come up when people do searches on Google, or any other companies that use Google's engine, such as Yahoo. I know Google's engine isn't based purely on the number of links to your site, but it's one of the leading factors in determining pagerank.

That's the primary reason why I haven't already registered more domains. I know my host wouldn't charge a thing to point more domains to the site(I love my hosting right now - Globalcon), and domains are really cheap, but I believe that it would actually decrease traffic or at least not bring in as many new visitors.

If you can find some literature or articles to back up your ideas, please send them my way and I'll read them and maybe re-decide my position on having multiple domains for the same site.

Here's a couple threads about this:
http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread....21&referrerid=0
http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread....60&referrerid=0

Edit: By the way, welcome to the 6G Celicas forums! I really like your first idea for a sticker, and I came across the same problems that you did, because I'm used to designing all of my graphics for the web as well.