Re: AIS Website Goals and Suggestions

["Robert Pries " <101p@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

ALEXA does not rank individual domains without one subscribing to their services at a cost. Even then I believe it would hard to get a ranking. The wiki subdomain is perceived as an integral part of the AIS website just as is AIS lookup or E-membership which may be on separate host servers like the wiki. The only caveat is that 84% of the traffic on the AIS website goes to the Encyclopedia.

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From: "Janet Smith" <4f80107e1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 10:11:05 AM
Subject: RE: Fwd: [AISdiscuss] AIS Website Goals and Suggestions

Robert,

What does it look like without "wiki"????

AIS (including wiki)= 250,593


Janet Smith
California

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From: 101p@rewrite.aisboard.org
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Subject: Fwd: [AISdiscuss] AIS Website Goals and Suggestions
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:25:17 -0400 (EDT)

>darn I forgot to sign my name.Bob Pries
>
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>From: "Robert Pries" <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
>To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:21:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS Website Goals and Suggestions
>
>As I showed before AIS is performing quite well in respect to other
>plant society websites. I wanted to share the following ALEXA
>ratings. Remember lower is better. Alexa does not rate sites that get
>too little traffic to measure. That is why most of the AIS sections
>are not listed. But what is listed gives some idea of their relative
>importance on the internet. As John pointed out there are analytic
>tools that can tell us what pages of the AIS website are most
>visited. It seems to me before we go about redesigning the menu it
>would be nice to get a better understanding of how the AIS website is
>used. I do not think quantity of traffic is the only parameter that
>should be considered. How do we want people to use the website
>(Perhaps how does it attract new members)? How can it best serve
>existing members? I believe we should work on gathering some of this
>information before we proceed in the same way we did the last time
>that gave us an unsatisfactory result. We have gone se!
> veral years without a correction I do not think we should rush into
>a quick fix. It is an opportunity to do more/better.
>Alexa website rankings
>Daves Garden=16,947
>All Things Plants=210,987
>AIS (including wiki)= 250,593
>Reblooming=4,023,712
>TBIS=5,493,575
>HIPS=7,045,862
>SIGNA=7,809,407
>Siberian=8,729,218
>Median=12,637,921
>PCN=14,302,508
>DIS=15,966,439
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wayne Messer" <6d200f2f1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
>To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
>Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:33:56 PM
>Subject: [AISdiscuss] AIS Website Goals and Suggestions
>
>As Jim pointed out, we need AIS goals to align the website goals
>with.  But
>there may be website goals that would support whatever AIS goals are.
>
>One website goal that I would put in that category is Keeping members
>and
>the public engaged with what AIS is doing.  We want members to know
>what is
>happening so they can participate and we want the public (potential
>members) to see that exciting things are happening because of AIS.
>
>My suggestion for doing this would be to add a blog to the website. 
>This
>would not be the World of Irises blog, which I would continue as it
>is
>showing the breadth and beauty of irises and their history.  The blog
>I
>have in mind would focus more on AIS news and happenings.  It would
>include
>
>   1. News from the AIS.  Items that now show up under News in our
>current
>   menu.  The Board and various Committees may also have items they
>wish to
>   share.
>   2. News from the Sections and Cooperating Societies.  Similar to
>Gary's
>   Section Happenings in the Irises Bulletin.
>   3. News from the Regions.  Much of this is in the Regions'
>newsletters
>   and websites and deserves a wider audience.
>   4. News from the Affiliated Clubs.  This we might have to limit if
>it
>   really gets rolling.
>
>As a blog, items could be a little longer than some that now appear
>in News
>on the website.  And they can be more casual and include images as
>well as
>the links to the full items.  Having it as a blog will also make it
>easier
>to point to individual news items from other AIS sites and even from
>non-AIS sites.
>
>I believe there are widgets we could add to World of Irises which
>would
>display the titles for the last few entries from this blog adjacent
>to the
>World of Irises entry.  Presumably there is also something similar so
>we
>could show recent entries titles on the AIS website, maybe the front
>page,
>as well.  As an aside, there might also be a widget for the AIS
>website to
>display recent titles from the World of Irises.
>
>I have no idea whether this would fit in the current design of the
>website.  If it would, the menu item News could be replaced with News
>Blog
>or whatever we would like to call it.
>
>If it would not fit in the current design, it could still be
>implemented
>without waiting for a redesign by hosting the blog on a separate
>site.
>
>My other suggestion/comment on adding a blog would be to follow the
>World
>of Irises setup.  If I understand it, they have someone (Andi)
>responsible
>overall for it and there are many additional editors who can add
>items.
>This allows more frequent changes and updates without overloading one
>or
>two people.
>
>Regards,
>
>Wayne Messer
>
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