Mahalo Sports Newsletter #4.
Hey Everybody, thanks for tuning in for another newsletter, I hope you are all finding these interesting, as always if you want to access the archive I have been keeping them logged here.
Before I get down to business just a shout-out to a couple more new members who have reached 10 tasks, this week it was @bpearl67 and @gnix - That brings us to grand total of 10 graduates in our first month. Two more from sports have been accepted onto the How-To Team, @Corcoran25 and @jmd364, that brings us to 6 How-To writers from our sport recruits. As previously mentioned Mahalo is having a special deal during February where you can be assigned a list of 25 Bulk How-To's for M$8/each - Currently I have @gnix, @justimko and @cmstebbins and board and doing a great job, but the more the merrier, give me shout if you are interested. Also let's welcome our new crop of writers to this list, I believe we are up to 50. Some of you have not completed your first task yet, if by any means are having trouble understanding, just send me an email and I'll help.
Olympics
Yes, the time has finally arrived, for those who didn't know I live in BC on Vancouver Island, so this is a major event for myself, I am going to be all about the Olympics for the next couple weeks. The first goal was to complete an events page for each sport, we all did that over 80 pages, one for each event. Be sure to check your "Pages Managed" list and line that up with the Vancouver schedule, be sure to know when you need to update the page. We are working on the Athletes now, at least the favourites, the theory is, if we can have the pages built before the Athlete becomes news, we want to be one step ahead. If you enjoy building athlete pages and believe you can bang a bunch out over the next few days, contact me with a sport of choice, I will send you a list. (We have hockey covered for the most part)
I will be watching the Olympics beginning to end, it's kinda been a dream of mine to be able to do so, and well there is no better time then now. I will be in the MahaloSports IRC Chat room, if you join the chat room there will be opportunities to build M$5 news/buzz pages for when spectacular things happen. The Summer Olympics in 2008 created record days on Mahalo in regards to traffic, and although the Winter Olympics are not as popular, we still hope to generate some great pages plus it will give us all practice for 2012.
The Sports world doesn't halt with the 2010 Olympics, and if you don't want to build Olympic pages or you don't have a How-To project to work on there is still lots going on in the sports world.
Mahalo Sport Team Pages
What is your favourite team out of the Big 4 sports? Do you manage that page on Mahalo yet? Is it available to manage? If so, let me know and I will assign it to you.
Likely we already have a Mahalo Page on it, in fact, we've had these pages since 2007 and they do not generate much traffic. Because they are old pages, they have been through a lot of Mahalo upgrades and have not translated well or been updated in a long time. They are probably all on page 500 of Google and it will take a miracle to get em higher. So, let's become part of the miracle business and see what we can do collectively.
Here is the new template for Sport Team Pages - Lets start calling them "Team Hubs"
I've put it into place on the Montreal Canadiens page here.
I've offered explanations of the sections here,here,here and here.
As you can see, each hub will have about 10+ related pages, let's call them "Satellite Pages"
These pages are carefully selected terms, some will be update light such as "tickets", "Jerseys", "Coupons" while others will need to be updated depending on the moves your team makes such as "Rosters" and "Trades" - Others will only need be updated once a year, such as "Schedule", "Free Agents" and so forth.
The point of this is the, the satellite pages have a chance to position themselves well in search engines, if we can get all of our team pages on this same formula viewers may begin to see Mahalo as a viable option for sports information, especially the information they are looking for. Personally, I know it can be a devil fining free agent lists without jumping through hoops on the net. The theory is that the satellite pages will generate traffic, the shopping related pages will generate income and with success this will raise the profile of the Hub pages over time.
I want to have the same individual who manages the hub pages, managing most of the satellites. If you want to get started on your team, drop me a line and I will start assigning you tasks.
Top Month #1 Content:
All in all a really great 1st month, 600k visitors on the 1500 pages I currently managed by myself in the vertical, here is a list of the best performers in January.
Royal Rumble Live Stream: 22K
Royce Reed: 22K
NHL Trade Rumors: 17K
2010 NFL Schedule: 15K
WWE Royal Rumble 14K
Super Bowl National Anthem 13K
Vizio Super Bowl Ad 12K
So there you have it, I will be punching off another email real soon calling for writers for certain upcoming events, such March Madness and World Cup Soccer, so keep your eyes peeled for that. Otherwise, keep up the great work.
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