Conquer Club

damn, this year is starting off rough. already a loss of 4.59% of our active users in just the first 13 days. i hate to see what the month after the christmas/new years surge looks like.

jan 01. 10217
jan 13. 9750

7914 have completed 10 or more games. Down 32 from the 8th of Jan.

Every day I count about 50 to 60 players less.

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As long as there are 8 people for a quadruples game, I'll stay.

I think we all know that when it gets down to eight, there'll be eight sorts of games up with none being joined.

was curious to see why there aren't more russians on here so ilooked it up. 15, wtf?

riskllama wrote:was curious to see why there aren't more russians on here so ilooked it up. 15, wtf?

77.6% of the users on this website are american
>90% of the users are native english-speakers

So yeah, the problem is that the website is made and designed for people who speak english.
Hence why there are less people of other nationalities. In addition, maybe the original classical boardgame risk might just not have been popular in russia.

maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

Source:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.conquerclub.com

waauw wrote:maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

Hey, this sounds like a good idea.

This is worthy of noting.

How fast does conquerclub.com load?

Fast (1.099 Seconds), 67% of sites are slower.

Keefie wrote:This is worthy of noting.

How fast does conquerclub.com load?

Fast (1.099 Seconds), 67% of sites are slower.

does this also take into account that most other websites use images and flashplayer to a lesser extent?

maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

I so move. A seconder?
Any discussion?

waauw wrote:

riskllama wrote:was curious to see why there aren't more russians on here so ilooked it up. 15, wtf?

77.6% of the users on this website are american
>90% of the users are native english-speakers

So yeah, the problem is that the website is made and designed for people who speak english.
Hence why there are less people of other nationalities. In addition, maybe the original classical boardgame risk might just not have been popular in russia.

maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

Source:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.conquerclub.com

ManBungalow wrote:

waauw wrote:maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

Hey, this sounds like a good idea.

google already translates the page for you... amazing... love that google... and we have foreign language sub forums, too... i would love to see a google translation of one of our threads... ha!!!-Jésus noir

owenshooter wrote:

ManBungalow wrote:

waauw wrote:maybe an idea for the future might be to have the website in different language versions. It might attract more people from other countries, especially considering the google-ranking results.

Hey, this sounds like a good idea.

google already translates the page for you... amazing... love that google... and we have foreign language sub forums, too... i would love to see a google translation of one of our threads... ha!!!-Jésus noir

That's not what it's about. If you have pages translated yourself, it'll come up higher as a result on search engines.
Thus attracting more players from other countries as they can find the website more easily.

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few remarks on the current discussion about multilanguage:

* i couldn't find any Universal Analytics code from conquerclub, but this is the perfect way to investigate your local and global visitors. Here you can actually see where your visitors come from.
* multilanguage is not helping in your strive to clime in the search engine ranking (believe me, i know.... i have an internet marketing company). It helps you only to a higer rank in the country of your target audience.
* a proper marketing strategy is needed to climb to google rankings. did i miss this somewhere?

GeneralFault wrote: * multilanguage is not helping in your strive to clime in the search engine ranking (believe me, i know.... i have an internet marketing company). It helps you only to a higer rank in the country of your target audience.

Well isn't that the point? According to alexa.com statistics the 4th largest country community on this website are spaniards, even though they are quite infamous for their bad english skills. I think the potential for a new audiance from spain and in extention all of latin america, is quite enormous.

Additionally I'd like to point you the fact that if you search all frenchmen on the website(through 'full score leaderboard'), you'd find out that there are only 174 frenchmen on the website. Yet there are 246 dutchmen. This is an enormous difference if you take into account population differences and the fact that the original game 'Risk' was invented and popularized in France.

The reason for this inconsistency is language. Contrary to dutch, which is both yours and my native language, the french don't search the internet in english. The dutch results on the internet are highly unsatisfactory and insufficient, and dutchmen are generally very proficient in english. Hence why they find this website quite easily. The french on the contrary have a sufficiently self-serving community on the internet. They don't have the propensity to search the web in english and stumble upon CC.

So I'm not saying a dutch version would be beneficial, however the contrary is true for other major languages. There is a reason why large gaming corporations have their games translated into the major languages. Because those people are less used to using english and their huge populations are profitable.

Come on ..give Frenchman Albert Lamorisse..game and movie maker a shout out..Take that Hasbro....to bad he was killed in a plane crash or we could have had Risk II...He came up with R.I.S.K...The letters are the first ones.In each of his four grandchildren's names..It's a true fact..ConfederateSS...out!!!!

waauw wrote:

GeneralFault wrote: * multilanguage is not helping in your strive to clime in the search engine ranking (believe me, i know.... i have an internet marketing company). It helps you only to a higer rank in the country of your target audience.

Well isn't that the point? According to alexa.com statistics the 4th largest country community on this website are spaniards, even though they are quite infamous for their bad english skills. I think the potential for a new audiance from spain and in extention all of latin america, is quite enormous.

Additionally I'd like to point you the fact that if you search all frenchmen on the website(through 'full score leaderboard'), you'd find out that there are only 174 frenchmen on the website. Yet there are 246 dutchmen. This is an enormous difference if you take into account population differences and the fact that the original game 'Risk' was invented and popularized in France.

The reason for this inconsistency is language. Contrary to dutch, which is both yours and my native language, the french don't search the internet in english. The dutch results on the internet are highly unsatisfactory and insufficient, and dutchmen are generally very proficient in english. Hence why they find this website quite easily. The french on the contrary have a sufficiently self-serving community on the internet. They don't have the propensity to search the web in english and stumble upon CC.

So I'm not saying a dutch version would be beneficial, however the contrary is true for other major languages. There is a reason why large gaming corporations have their games translated into the major languages. Because those people are less used to using english and their huge populations are profitable.

Your name is going to be that icky brown colour if you carry this on! Possibly the best stuff I've read on CC lately.

waauw wrote: Additionally I'd like to point you the fact that if you search all frenchmen on the website(through 'full score leaderboard'), you'd find out that there are only 174 frenchmen on the website. Yet there are 246 dutchmen. This is an enormous difference if you take into account population differences and the fact that the original game 'Risk' was invented and popularized in France.

Pretty sure this is because of betiko.

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Metsfanmax wrote:

waauw wrote: Additionally I'd like to point you the fact that if you search all frenchmen on the website(through 'full score leaderboard'), you'd find out that there are only 174 frenchmen on the website. Yet there are 246 dutchmen. This is an enormous difference if you take into account population differences and the fact that the original game 'Risk' was invented and popularized in France.

Pretty sure this is because of betiko.

Using that logic, there would be less americans than french onsite. Because of you medsfats

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BoganGod wrote:

Metsfanmax wrote:

waauw wrote: Additionally I'd like to point you the fact that if you search all frenchmen on the website(through 'full score leaderboard'), you'd find out that there are only 174 frenchmen on the website. Yet there are 246 dutchmen. This is an enormous difference if you take into account population differences and the fact that the original game 'Risk' was invented and popularized in France.

Pretty sure this is because of betiko.

Using that logic, there would be less americans than french onsite. Because of you medsfats

Well we make up for it by having a lot more Americans. I do believe that if I weren't here, the Great Decline would immediately end.