Fine Fools Community Case Study

When I first brought up the Fine Fools Community last week at Work Boxers I mentioned that I was going to use the sites as case studies. I am going to try my best and chronicle the growth of the community and each site not only for the book, but to also make sure I am keeping up with my ability to follow my own lessons and hopefully provide a useful resource to all readers.

I can report on the earnings that I receive from the sites and I will ask the writers to share their numbers as well so we can gauge what topics work along with colors, positioning, etc. Along with financial statements I would like to track the growth of the Community through Technorati. Not the most reliable of services, but it allows me to see everything on one page.

I will be doing these reports every 2 weeks as one week reports not only become tedious, but it becomes harder to see the bigger picture at such a microlevel.

Technorati

Here are the starting stats for the Community sites.

• Gardgy - Rank 775,745 (0 links from 0 sites)
• I Like Cameras - Rank 775,745 (0 links from 0 sites)
• Movable Phone - Rank 775,745 (0 links from 0 sites)
• It’s Useless - Rank 775,745 (1 link from 1 site)
• Insert 25 - Rank 46389 (47 links from 40 sites)
• Damn I’m Cute - Rank 576,121 (2 links from 2 sites)
• Fine Fools Community - Rank 775,745 (0 links from 0 sites)
• Work Boxers - Rank 42,656 (62 links from 43 sites)

Obviously not the huge numbers one would expect from such an enormous launch (*chuckle*), but it’s good to start at ground zero.

Forums

When I place forums up for the writers I am considering opening up the forums to the public as well. This is a very open-ended project and I am hoping a lot can be learned from it. At the very least I believe the public (saying “public” is stupid) should be able to browse them.

Any other type of numbers you think I should be tracking?

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