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Pleased we’ve broken the local record among SE23 forums: SE23.life had 42K visits in the last month:
This equates to a very healthy 183K page views:
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Go forum!
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Hi Chris - credit where credit is due - you’ve done a great job with the forum and thanks to the moderators as well for keeping the place amicable -always a tricky balance.
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I see your closest rival is now claiming 50k visits per month…
I saw that. Up 10,000 overnight, quite an increase! 
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What are the rival sites?
If you search for “SE23” in Google and scroll down past the #1 spot, you’ll see our competition 
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The algorithms are pretty mysterious and murky but as I understand it, Google is so personalised now that different people may see different top results. Factors like your location, search history etc can affect what comes up. I’m not a techie expect, just know a bit about SEO.
PS are people really still looking at TOSS?!
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What I find really surprising is that local businesses (eg Matoom) are being persuaded to spend £35-90 per month to advertise to the tiny audience of that forum.
Is there a local SEO / online ads company that’s in partnership with TOSS I wonder?
Some probably think they are advertising here, on the forum where there has been so much discussion about new local businesses.
Winkworth now include the forum in their property listings (using an excerpt from @saretap’s Metro article).
Nice one! 
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Made it Chris, can I have your autograph?? 
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Excellent job! Any thoughts of adding .london domain?
That’s a good domain name but would add £46 per domain to my annual renewal costs - the .life domains (I have a lot of them) already cost me £36/domain/year.
And also I think the .life brand is nice and snappy
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Was suggesting as an extra rather than a change but yes - no point in paying more than you need to!
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Alexa measures the popularity of websites and compares them to similar web sites.
Se23.life has edged ahead of BrockleyCentral and other local forums but East Dulwich remains more popular.
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Interesting info, thanks.
The East Dulwich Forum has a formidable ranking:
We’re headed in the right direction though:
The “SE23” Google search is looking a lot less confusing now, as the old forum (who altered their site title to match ours) drops down the rankings away from the #1 spot:
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