Finding TPO

I have been interested since installing Google Analytics where are traffic and members are coming from.

If I could ask you a huge favor, and let us know how you found us. A simple word or two will do if you don't want to get into it. Thanks!

I basically stumbled upon this site while Googling for fly fishing sites.

That's encouraging, any idea what you were googling for? We don't come up very high in most searches I run.

I think I was searching NJ fly fishing or something to that effect. I may have come here from a video I watched on Google video. The only thing I remember for sure was that I bookmarked it immediately so I could get here again. ;D

via flyaddict....

juice there is probably a lot that can still be done in terms of organic seo....

typing iin troutpredator...comes up top of the list...tpo and flyfishing very high on the list...tpo alone.. obviously not a great response....

Youtube baby you guys are borderline celebs when it comes to flyfishing videos. If I see you on the river might just ask for an autograph. ;D In all seriousness youtube and just searching the web about fishing in this region TPO pops up frequently.

Stop it lol!I was fishing with Justin nopt too long ago and we were about to get in the car and a guy was like... You're Aaron. It felt a little weird but I told him wouldn't you rather see me out here fishing or typing on they keyboard... He laughed. We constantly meet people from the site when we are out there fishing. Ots funny when they tell us that they don't have a user name. Damn lurkers :)

I stumbled into HRO and Torrey told me about this site,,,,is Torrey on Google?

Regards,
FK

Aaron, maybe you should get "TPO----SIGN UP NOW" embroidered on the back of your vest

I'm trying on the SEO. I feel like there is enough content on here that we should be near the top when you typing "fly fishing forum"

We aren't there though. I don't know a ton about SEO but I'm doing my best, if anyone has suggestions let me know.

I was on the Salmon rv [Ct] & met Alanb, who briefly told me about Chezch nymphing, and also told me to check out this site. I've read & learned alot from this site, & my secretary would shoot me if she saw that I've been on it over 20 hours.

Jack

Good thinking on the vest! I feel like we just need to keep it up with the YouTube videos and I need to work on the SEO, I've been researching away, but it's tough with a pre coded freeware forum like this. I'll get it though.

Some SEO guidelines I found:

# Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.

# Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.

# Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.

# Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it's current for your site so that you don't accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you're using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.

# If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.

# Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.

# Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.

Justim has mentioned that many of our hits come from you tube.

I found TPO on you tube. I was looking for fly tying videos.

I was actually searching for info on fishing the Ramapo and found the original site.

looking up fly fishing on Youtube.

How about on the Wflies web site. They have a TPO friends link there and also have Aaron's Vladi worm tying video along with pink condoms for sale.

I found this site prior to the overhaul and I can't exactly remember how, but I'm sure I was searching for video content on fly tying or fly fishing on either google or you tube.

I saw the picture of the beast that Aaron took out of the Croton on another site nyctroutbums.com. Followed the links here.

I found TPO on youtube. I was searching for videos of people actually fly fishing to compare my technique and learn a little of something. Little did I know....

Some crazy loudmouth from NJ kept telling me I HAD to post on his website, so here I am..... ;)

I can't exactly remember. I think I was surfing the web looking up the Deerfield River in MA, or the Farmington in CT and came across the site. For which I'm very thankful.
Keep up the great job. Love it.