The Elite said:
I don't see how you can call me a liar, when you've never had any access to our traffic statistics? You have no way of saying where our members our forum. Sadly, the HF redirect only got me 400 unique hits. The major traffic boost came from the announcement where he linked to us. We only got a total of 800 members from HF, which is 14% of our memberbase. I know many think it did boost our traffic, but when we were hitting 30k unique hits, HF was only 40% of the traffic, and 50% of it was bounces. Sad, I know?
I highly doubt you got 400 redirects only from HF, but like you said I have no proof, and I know you won't supply any. Even though you might of got lots of members from Google, pretty much all your ACTIVE members who sign in daily and post are from HF, when you had that massive redirect. Even if the number is just 800 which is still a lot, over 70% of those would be active as they were runescape whores on HF a site they used to love, and were told by Omniscient (a guy people worship) to come here.
So the success really is down to the posting members, and that's come from HF... I bet if I ask 1,000 members here if they came from HF, a LOT would say they did. Just saying, no point saying 80% of your members are from Google or whatever you said, because before the HF redirect RG was relatively small :S. Not slating on you, or the site. The site would probably of been successful without the redirect, but it would of just taken a lot longer.
