Thpughts on a sticker Options

[macavely]

First thing you need a web pic hosting site. upload the pics onto that site. once you do that right click the picture and copy the URL. then when your posting here click the IMG botton and Paste, and thats all you have to do.

http://www.picturetrail.com/
try this site real good and free

[NEVERSTOP]

okay let see if this works...

[NEVERSTOP]

**** it! just go to my profile.... it will be there

last photo

or try here

[ghostdog]

neverstop, nice work man, looks good

unfortunatly thats not the name of the board
try one that says "6GC.NET"

[x_itchy_b_x]

i like it. oh man srry i wasnt any help at all i tryed.

[NEVERSTOP]

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unfortunatly thats not the name of the board

I was under the impression that 6gc.net stood for sixthgencelica.net..... maybe I'm wrong......don't know what 6gc.net would me then...

as for 6gc.net version it looked stupid... sorry but it did, this version is alot better lookin.

also besides neone that knows about Celica's and this board isn't gonna have a clue what 6gc.net stands for... at least this way they can figure it out.
and if you type in sixth gen celica net into a search engine... guess what comes up?

I personally like it alot better than ne of the other styles but thats just my opinion and its not cuz I made it just cuz it actually has a little style to it.

[ghostdog]

sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that

I just figured the whole point of the sticker was for people to check out this site right? so if they plug in sixthgencelica.net it won't take them anywhere. maybe we could register that domain and redirect it here, cuz I agree with you 6GC.NET in graff would look weak.

[NEVERSTOP]

read up about entering sixth gen celica net I just edited it

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sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that

I was beening sarcastic

[Coomer]

QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Dec 17 2002, 09:16 PM)

sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that I just figured the whole point of the sticker was for people to check out this site right? so if they plug in sixthgencelica.net it won't take them anywhere. maybe we could register that domain and redirect it here, cuz I agree with you 6GC.NET in graff would look weak.

I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though.

[NEVERSTOP]

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I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though.  I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though.  I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though.

most people would think to use a seach engine onec the sixthgencelica.net didn't work... I do agree with you though about using another domain would hurt this site.....just food for thought


btw... thanks for posting that ghost dog... I really had problems with trying to get that to go up

[ghostdog]

might as well have a sticker that just says "Sixth Gen Celica" instead of using a non-existent domain. and maybe Coomer could put those keywords in the meta-tags incase someone actually goes through the trouble of searching for it.

[NEVERSTOP]

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might as well have a sticker that just says "Sixth Gen Celica" instead of using a non-existent domain. and maybe Coomer could put those keywords in the meta-tags incase someone actually goes through the trouble of searching for it.

That would be cool but the only prob with it is that it kinda defeats the purpose of a site sticker...... we'll figure something out

[kuya1284]

QUOTE (Coomer @ Dec 17 2002, 09:26 PM)

QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Dec 17 2002, 09:16 PM) sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that I just figured the whole point of the sticker was for people to check out this site right? so if they plug in sixthgencelica.net it won't take them anywhere. maybe we could register that domain and redirect it here, cuz I agree with you 6GC.NET in graff would look weak. I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though.

Actually, registering another domain will not reduce traffic. As a matter of fact, it might be even better having more options for people to hit this site instead of 6gc.net. If you're really serious about this site, then I would recommend registering more domains that point to this. Search engines don't care about the domain name. Search engines will *spider* a site looking for keywords to index. This is why it's important to have meta tags, meta descriptions, etc. Search engine indexes are primarily based off of META words.

If you really want to increase traffic, I would also recommend registering 6gc.com. Most people will use "com" instead of "net". Other domains that you can register are

6thgencelica.com/net
sixthgencelica.com/net
sixgencelica.com/net

(These are all unregistered by the way. I just did a *whois* on all 6 as well as 6gc.com)

Don't spread yourself too thin. It really wouldn't hurt to register more domains and simply have them *redirect* or *point* to 6gc.net. This will give people more ways of finding the site. Since domains are cheap to register nowadays ($8 at godaddy.com), maybe you can start taking donations to help register the other domains. That's only $48 to register 6 domains. You web hosting company may also charge a small fee to alias the domains to 6gc.net, but if you don't want to pay for that, I'm sure the registrar will allow you to redirect the domains to 6gc.net (15 dollar domains allows this).

One last thing, if you want to improve placement, the only real way of doing that, as opposed to waiting months to be reindexed to the top, is to pay. I know that most people don't want to pay $50+ just to be placed at the top, but it's the most reliable way of getting there.

Hope this helps.

-Ray

[kuya1284]

BTW, I forgot to post my concepts. I was having a hard time because I usually design text that's to be displayed on websites and hard documents. Designing text for stickers is rather difficult because of various limitations. For example, vinyl stickers can't be printed with a gradient or a glowing fade in the background, unless we're talking about bumper-style stickers.

Anyway, sorry for the rushed jobs. I promised Brian (CelicaBest) that I would try to come up with something if I had time. Well I didn't really have much time, which I why I sorta rushed these. If you don't like them, oh well. What I wanted to primarily do was create something that will help the other designers come up with something *better*. I saw some really nice work. Keep up the good job guys.

Maybe if I have some more time, I can actually sit down and take some time to come up with something.

-Ray

[Coomer]

QUOTE (kuya1284 @ Dec 17 2002, 11:02 PM)

QUOTE (Coomer @ Dec 17 2002, 09:26 PM) QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Dec 17 2002, 09:16 PM) sorry dude, I didn't mean to come off harsh like that I just figured the whole point of the sticker was for people to check out this site right? so if they plug in sixthgencelica.net it won't take them anywhere. maybe we could register that domain and redirect it here, cuz I agree with you 6GC.NET in graff would look weak. I agree with the fact that that sticker looks sweet, but registering another domain and pointing it here would actually hurt the site's traffic, because of the way that Google and many other search engines work. It would reduce this site's pagerank, pointing less people to 6G Celicas and hindering the amount of people finding this site and registering and helping out. That would be a sweet sticker though. Actually, registering another domain will not reduce traffic. As a matter of fact, it might be even better having more options for people to hit this site instead of 6gc.net. If you're really serious about this site, then I would recommend registering more domains that point to this. Search engines don't care about the domain name. Search engines will *spider* a site looking for keywords to index. This is why it's important to have meta tags, meta descriptions, etc. Search engine indexes are primarily based off of META words. If you really want to increase traffic, I would also recommend registering 6gc.com. Most people will use "com" instead of "net". Other domains that you can register are 6thgencelica.com/net sixthgencelica.com/net sixgencelica.com/net (These are all unregistered by the way. I just did a *whois* on all 6 as well as 6gc.com) Don't spread yourself too thin. It really wouldn't hurt to register more domains and simply have them *redirect* or *point* to 6gc.net. This will give people more ways of finding the site. Since domains are cheap to register nowadays ($8 at godaddy.com), maybe you can start taking donations to help register the other domains. That's only $48 to register 6 domains. You web hosting company may also charge a small fee to alias the domains to 6gc.net, but if you don't want to pay for that, I'm sure the registrar will allow you to redirect the domains to 6gc.net (15 dollar domains allows this). One last thing, if you want to improve placement, the only real way of doing that, as opposed to waiting months to be reindexed to the top, is to pay. I know that most people don't want to pay $50+ just to be placed at the top, but it's the most reliable way of getting there. Hope this helps. -Ray

Actually, I've heard contrary to what you're saying from many people, mainly on SitePointForums.com and AListApart.com and a couple other development sites.

If you're familiar with Google's pagerank method, you know that it takes into account the number of links pointing to your website. With one url, I know that all links to my website are going to point to that given url. If I had two urls, then half might point to one url while the other half might point to the other url, meaning that Google would only see half the number of links pointing to my site than there actually are. This would decrease pagerank, which means my page would be less likely to come up when people do searches on Google, or any other companies that use Google's engine, such as Yahoo. I know Google's engine isn't based purely on the number of links to your site, but it's one of the leading factors in determining pagerank.

That's the primary reason why I haven't already registered more domains. I know my host wouldn't charge a thing to point more domains to the site(I love my hosting right now - Globalcon), and domains are really cheap, but I believe that it would actually decrease traffic or at least not bring in as many new visitors.

If you can find some literature or articles to back up your ideas, please send them my way and I'll read them and maybe re-decide my position on having multiple domains for the same site.

Here's a couple threads about this:
http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread....21&referrerid=0
http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread....60&referrerid=0

Edit: By the way, welcome to the 6G Celicas forums! I really like your first idea for a sticker, and I came across the same problems that you did, because I'm used to designing all of my graphics for the web as well.

[NEVERSTOP]

damn that was a book!

[ghostdog]

Coomer, no offense man but I don't think links are doing anything to your page rank right now. I pulled the link: command on Google and no matches at all. Maybe if the 6th Gen Celica segment was more competitive, but honestly I think you are about the only game in town at this point.

[macavely]

Yea Coomer the day that i found this site i was going to start a page called Celicagen6.com then i found the link for this site. but back to the sticker why not take ten sticker ideas and vote on it.

[Coomer]

QUOTE (macavely @ Dec 20 2002, 12:25 AM)

Yea Coomer the day that i found this site i was going to start a page called Celicagen6.com then i found the link for this site. but back to the sticker why not take ten sticker ideas and vote on it.

I've still got a couple more ideas that I'll hopefully work on when I get home tonight too.

[trd94cel]

i do vynal graphics on the side