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Originally Posted by Skurai

This might seem complex, though. Okay, here's the idea:

A playlist, that each of us contribute to. Now, to keep it balanced, each member can have a total of three songs on it, but we can switch out the songs we want at will (that way I couldn't just put a bunch of spammy sounding music, to piss people off, but I still would have the right to at least 3 songs, if I wanted).

Or perhaps the number of songs would be linked to your post number. For example, since I have significantly less posts than !K_A!, let's say I can only put in about three songs, but he can put in a good ten or fifteen.

OR a different (probably better, and maybe even easier to program), we just have one player, but everyone gets their own custom playlist, and each member can just select who's list they want to hear.

Just an idea that might be fun to tinker with.

That would probably require a lot of coding. Maybe an easier thing would be to incorporate youtube playlists. Find the song, make the playlist, and have it automatically go to the next 'track'. An anime board I go to has a youtube tag.

Testing:

Edit: Yup it works. We can just embed the player on the website. They stay on zelaron the whole time.

I don't think we can, or wetwired will even let us, host actual songs on the website. We don't have permissions from the artists and that leads into a whole lot of copyright bullshit. If we can link to youtube, then the problem is on their end.

Test2:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9858FABAB56EFBA5

Anyone know how to use vbulletin to embed youtube playlists? I can only get individual songs.

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Originally Posted by Kaos

Theres a vbulletin mod that embeds the cb on the actual homepage.

http://screensnapr.com/e/WikKqO.jpg

my photoshop color skills suck but it would look like that but with matching css attributes. i can look it up if u want.

I've asked our resident pot head to look further into it. Thanks Kaos.

Keep the ideas coming guys. No matter how stupid it may sound, we may be able to tweak the idea into a good thing.

In b4 skurai spams my inbox.

It'd be 50% Rick roll...

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Originally Posted by Asamin

I really do think that we need to update the metadata info for this site. I've been gone a few years and when I came back there aren't any new people. We say we're a gaming forum but there isn't actually that many forums dedicated to specific games. I think if we did that that could help a lot.

As far as the metadata is concerned, we have:

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<meta name="keywords" content="wow,worldofwarcraft,warcraft,d2,diablo,diablo2,diabloii,starcraft,star craft,sc, war craft,,rpg maker,game,gaming,discussion,vbulletin,forum,bbs,bulletin board" />

<meta name="description" content="This is a cool place to hang out and talk about computers, computer games, and life" />

Yes we do have gaming and forums seperate but i've found if you also include them together it'll boost google hits. Also, we do not represent every single game that is listed in a forum. We just have a D2 forum and a general gaming forum. If we make a WoW, SC, Warcraft and such forums then I think it'll really boost how many people sign up and stay.

Never gonna give you up.

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Originally Posted by kaos

Asamin is right we need to change the meta description to something more relevent in general, but DO NOT use the keywords meta tags. Post titles are automatically updated and since we have general discussion posts with general titles that have nothing to do with the keywords, Google is going to think it's a page about "keyword" but since the page is irrelevent to the actual keywords it's going to rank low.

Zelaron is over 10 years old and still has a pagerank of 1. I have an autoblog that's less than 5 months old that I started it and it's already Pagerank 2. Not saying anyone doing anything wrong, just saying that search engines have changed alot since Zelaron first started and doing a little bit of tweaking can drastically improve our rankings and give us more traffic.

Keep the ideas coming. I'll unlock this thread in a week or so for discussion.

Totally forgot. Unlocked if anyone has anything to add.

From my experience recently, we really need to implement some of these since the only new intro thread since mine has been a bot.

Asamin, go look at the introduction forums. We haven't had a real introduction thread for years. Literally.

Ok so lets have a real debate and get some changes really going. Since me and you seem to be the most active intelligent users (besides Kagom) lets brainstorm. Of all the stuff that we have here so far, what do you think we should do?

Delete the forums, sell the domain, split the profits and move on with our lives?

What profits? What lives? And who would buy the domain Zelaron.com?

There are 466,647 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Zelaron.com. While roughly 45% of the site's visitors are in India, where it is ranked #80,048, it is also popular in Pakistan, where it is ranked #53,086. The site's visitors view an average of 6.0 unique pages per day. Approximately 20% of visits to Zelaron.com consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces). The site is relatively popular among users in the city of Calcutta (where it is ranked #7,753).

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Originally Posted by Asamin (Post 696996)

What profits? What lives? And who would buy the domain Zelaron.com?

I would. I would buy this place in a heart beat.

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Originally Posted by !King_Amazon! (Post 696998)

But still, they're coming for the games and posts. If someone else bought the domain it would be for their own site.

Anyway, so you're basically saying that this is what zelaron now is and will always be? An in active wasteland?

Why's it so popular is Pakistan of all places? I figured South Korea, since they're big MMO freaks.

Maybe we're what they think Americans are like. That's a scary thought.

We basically are, when you break it down.

Well, I tried. I gave it my best, but we're just over :P This forum is very much dead. I believe 99% of site traffic is the arcade.

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Originally Posted by Grav (Post 697023)

http://i.imgur.com/Q0bLZ.png

Pretty much this

I giggled.