In an attempt to draw more users to MyBB, today I purchased a “premium” subscription from HotScripts. For $30USD (quarterly), we receive a yellow listing and the ability to place screenshots along with the listing. This doesn’t seem all too bad and in my opinion, it didn’t cost much either. (I looked at the sponsored listings however they’re $500USD quarterly for the category we’re listed in.)
For some time, we’ve been floating around on HotScripts and right up until a month ago, we were stuck on Page 9 for some reason! I couldn’t believe that we were behind other resources which weren’t as popular, were older, or were generally not as good as MyBB.
In an attempt to get us higher up in the charts, I updated the MyBB listing to outline the new version (1.0) that we released and change a few of the details. Great, so now we’re sitting in a place I’d call comfortable: Page 3.
I don’t think updating the listing though had a direct affect on our position, I think it comes down to the ratings given for MyBB since we implemented the “MyBB @ HotScripts” rating form on the download page of the MyBB site. Since then, we’ve had a greater increase in the number of users rating MyBB.
HotScript’s, however, still does not make up for the top percentage of our referrers. Our top referrer is now OpenSourceCMS, closely followed by Google, and then Forensoftware.de. HotScripts follows with only 233 actual referrers since 20th November.
After adding this premium subscription to the MyBB listing, I noticed we’re now on the bottom of page 2 – hopefully we can make it to the top of page two at least, if not maybe page 1, taking out some of our other competitors.
It will be interesting to see how much changing our listing to an enhanced one actually increases the popularity of MyBB, only time will tell, really.
If people want to help, they can offer there support to MyBB by simply visiting the MyBB Listing at HotScripts, and giving their honest opinions of MyBB by either rating it or writing a review of MyBB. Each rating and review gives us higher sort points, which gets us higher in the HotScripts listing.
Comments
John Anderton (December 22nd, 2005, 6:38 am)
I really dont get it why mybb isnt really high in the hotscripts listing cause there are so many supporters and i for one vote everytime i goto the mybb website.
There are so many users and lovers, it should be one of the top scripts there tbh :/
kodaks (December 24th, 2005, 11:41 am)
Is there a donation area, where people can donate to the MyBB project? Happy Holidays!
Chris Boulton (December 31st, 2005, 6:59 pm)
If you wish to donate to MyBB, you can use a paypal address set up for just that: paypal[at]mybboard[dot]com. Any donations will be used to pay for the server, monthly.
Thanks!
Michael Israel (January 4th, 2006, 9:12 am)
Sounds great, will do soon!
Peter Akkies (January 5th, 2006, 1:16 am)
My review finally seems to be accepted, I hope MyBB’s position will go up soon!
Guido (January 6th, 2006, 7:05 am)
Hope MyBB keeps going up, good luck!
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