Check out the this Gal Civ 2 Fansite

[Adagio]

And as been mentioned before, find a place without advertising. If the visitor has to click "skip ad" for each time he or she visits another page, they'll go away from the site very quickly, and they'll never come back

[Weblaster]

Well that's because my site is getting alot of traffic. I never got that with my other site.

[Nikolai]

A lot of traffic? You only have 444 visitors so far!

[Adagio]

450 isn't a lot of visitors, a lot of the traffic comes from here because you asked us to see the site (not all who visits the site takes the time to respond)

Also when you're making a website, while having not much experience with it, you should start by go to many different professional websites and note what's good and bad about those sites.
A lot of the professional sites are low on graphics, so you don't have to be good at creating it to make a good website

[Weblaster]

450 vistors in three days I mean. The site has only been in existence for three days.

Also don't laugh because my last site got over 15,000 hits.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Weblaster
Also don't laugh because my last site got over 15,000 hits.

But how many came back? It's not all about having a high visitor count, but to make sure the visitors actually comes back

[Weblaster]

Simcity Region did have some people come back just not many. Simcity 4 anyway was on the downside by 2004, EA games took off and supported their new juggernaught, The Sims 2.

Now, right now I not interested in having people come back until the two nights before this game is released. I really don't have information to talk about like I don't who the Krox are, ONLY concept art.

Getting a foothold right now is important.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Adagio


But how many came back? It's not all about having a high visitor count, but to make sure the visitors actually comes back

Also, was that uniqe visiotors?

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Weblaster
Simcity Region did have some people come back just not many. Simcity 4 anyway was on the downside by 2004, EA games took off and supported their new juggernaught, The Sims 2.

Now, right now I not interested in having people come back until the two nights before this game is released. I really don't have information to talk about like I don't who the Krox are, ONLY concept art.

Getting a foothold right now is important.

You are not interested in keeping your visitors? A foothold is just that. An important thing for a successful fan site is to give a place for finding info and discussing long before the game is released, so I can't see what you're aiming at if not that.

A quick look at your site makes me remember the personal web pages of the late 90's, and that is not a good thing mostly. Your front page is messy and very hard to the eye. Your page has had more than 400 visitors, yet not ONE post has been made in your forum, except your rules post(which you should expand btw if you want to have a well functioning forum).

All in all, I wish you good luck, but you have a long road to walk yet, and I recommend you to follow the above tips for web page making.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Nikolai
You are not interested in keeping your visitors?

Of course not, visitors are just taking up expensive bandwidth, making the site slower for the few users that comes back

[Weblaster]

Okay I have elminated the website counter and I am using a more simple template.

[Weblaster]

Also I have only really been jumping into the world of managing a fourms. Anyone have tips?

[Nikolai]

Well, first of all: Make yourself some few and clearly defined goals of what you want to do with the site. Do you want to have a news section on the front page? I'd recommend you try having that. What other fields do you want to enter with this site? Try to think of what you would want to get from this site if you were to find it. What would be neccessary to get you to come back?

And remember: It's better to chew off little and have time and resources to take another bite, than chew off more than you can handle.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Adagio
450 isn't a lot of visitors, a lot of the traffic comes from here because you asked us to see the site (not all who visits the site takes the time to respond)

Yeah, half of those probably came from here.

[Axxaer]

Originally posted by Adagio
Website counters should be avoided too, as they only show the visitor that nobody visits your site (making them less interested in coming back)

Unless you use an invisible one, such as http://www.statcounter.com/ which is also free (and gets 5 cows!). That's what I put in when I made a site. It also tells you unique and returning visitors.