Staffordshire Bull Terrier Forum News

40,000 Subscribers See Our Link as Staffy Forum Moves Towards 200,000 Posts

Our staffy forum continues to grow at a fantastic pace. Yesterday we had 20 new members. This would be a lot more but some registrants are having problems getting through the process that we have set in place to prevent spam registrations. It’s a simple process but apparently not for some…lol

Most importantly most of the new members are becoming active in the forum. They stay because of the help and support given by our members. So, give yourself a round of applause;-)

We are approaching 200,000 members posts and plan to hold a special competition to mark this event.

The monthly photo competition has become a great success too with the admin staff working hard to secure some great prizes from our sponsors. We’ll continue to try our best to get more of the same.

On another front our forum linked appeared in the August Edition of Dogs Today Magazine. With an average circulation of 40,000 copies sent out to subscribers homes, this was some welcome free exposure for the site. We are currently working to try to pursuade them to become one of our site sponsors.

We are also working to bring you our first Staffy forum newsletter. Allison and Louise are working on this with promises to publish it this side of Christmas 2008. It should be good so look out for that.

We have seen a marked decrease in the amount of members posting in the wrong folders of the forum. Please keep this trend going as it cuts down a lot of our workload when you post in the approriate folders.

As usual we’d like to offer our thanks to all our members and staff for their continued support.

Staffy Forum Admin

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Recent Staffy Forum Developments

We have been making a lot of changes lately. This was partly due to the fact that it has been quite a while since we made any significant changes to the forum and partly because there has been some negativity lately and we wanted to try to move things in a different direction.

Those members who constantly disrupt the forum, including the recent bans, are a very small number.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that there are 100s of active members who come every week and have a positive input. Those are the members we want to concentrate on.

In another positive development our site is now number one on Google for the search term ‘Staffordshire Bull Terriers’ and thereabouts for the ‘Staffordshire Bull Terrier’ search result. This is significant in that Google and the other search engines send us 2000 unique visitors per day to our site and forum. That means new Staffy enthusiasts, breeders and lovers, constantly coming to the site to read YOUR posts.

We are planning to interview members of the forum soon with the interviews being posted here. So, watch out for that soon!

We also have other exciting developments going on behind the scenes.

We have added an extra folder to the site for posts related to Staffy Behaviour. This seems to be a constant theme of topics in the general folder so we have created this folder to accomodate these threads.

To read more about the new addons we have had installed on the site visit the posts below:

Birthday Addon:
http://www.staffybullterriers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18024

Members should go immediately and add their DOB to their profile. We have set it so that you aren’t required to add the year of birth for those senior citizens in our ranks..lol You can if you want to though, which won’t be a problem for some of us;-)

Karma Addon:
http://www.staffybullterriers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17987

Warning System Moderation:
http://www.staffybullterriers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18004

Unfortunately some members continue to post threads in the wrong sections of our forum in spite of it being obvious that this is causing us loads of extra work.

So we have had to issue another post to make it clear that we want this to stop. You can read about that below:
http://www.staffybullterriers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18017

We want to personally thank you for your continued support of our forum. We also want to thank our mods who continue to do a great job.

SBT Forum Admin

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