No to forum. photos and videos

Well, i had a reply to my request for help adding site forum, photo albums and videos section, and it was not helpful. Basically it was outside there area of expertise.

I need to start building links soon as well as requesting more dog breed photos, so it would have been nice if I could have worked some magic and had some community aspects quickly in place so that fellow webmasters of dog sites could participate in this site, sooner rather than later.

Anyway, Ill have it all in good time.

Forum, pictures and videos

Found a web site on the net today that offered a number of services by way of hiring out webmasters.

I thought Id try them out and see if they could help me out on any or all of a number of requests to improve the web site.

Firstly I want a dog photos section, separate from my current dog pictures section.
A way for site visitors to easily upload pics of there dogs with a little info to share with everyone.

Then I wanted a new videos section which would incorporate dog videos, and people could embed there favourite youtube and other video sites videos within my site.

Thirdly, Id thought Id see if it all could be combined with some kind of membership to a site forum.

My goal is to eventually make the site a community for dog lovers. Although it is still relatively early days and I'm not to worried about introducing it all too soon. Although it would be nice to have it all in place for when the site starts getting alot more traffic.

March Web Site Traffic Increase

March was another growing month for traffic to the web site, with unique visitors increasing 50% on February's total.

The site still appears not to have aged enough for the Google search engine so doesn't yet have any particularly good rankings for primary keyword terms.

Mainly during the month of March a number of dog pictures pages were added or updated. I've hired help for that time consuming task and hopefully the addition of new pictures and pages will keep growing at an ever increasing rate. So far its been a bit of slow process.

April is set to be the best month yet!

New Siberian Huskies Pictures

Started the week off well with new photos added to my Siberian Husky breed profile page and also a new Siberian Huskies Pictures page has been created.



All extra photos, including the one below, were kindly sent in by Melissa Arab of Taja Siberian Huskies who has this website Taja Siberians.

All going well I'm hoping to really have a good week this week with plenty of new pages and many more dog breed pictures being added. I've still got a backlog dating back to end of November but now with some assistance I'm planning as a bare minimum to completely clear the backlog.

Giant Schnauzer wins Best in Show Crufts 2008

Its was the last day of Crufts 2008 today and the Crufts Best in Show award was won by a Giant Schnauzer named Philip.

Philip had previously been the winner of the Working Dog group.

Crufts 2008 starts today

The biggest calendar event of the year - Crufts, starts today.

It's the biggest dog show in the world. According to the web sites front page they had over 150,000 visitors last year.

I have so much on at the moment that I hadn't even thought of attending, although this time next year I intend to make a visit to Crufts 2009. Of course this time next year I'll have one of the biggest and most popular dog sites on the net!

Popularity of Designer Dog Breeds

I was doing a little research today regarding what dog related search terms people search for on the Internet.

I was quite surprised to find the many hybrid breeds, in particular the poodle hybrid breeds are actually searched for, albeit most not in large quantities.

One surprise in particular was the Maltipoo (Malti-Poo) was surprising popular. Maybe its a breed owned by a well known celebrity, or bought to prominence by some other means.

Anyway, Ill certainly have to have a look into adding some information on some of the more popular hybrids at some point in the future.