A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday


Moorsman
By Moorsman
October 2 2008

What started out as a response to a message board comment has grown into The Tribe over the last two years. The site now provides an active and independent outlet for Exeter Chiefs fans news and views. This has shown a thirty times increase in the number of hits from the first months total, all from word of mouth advertising.

Tribe Logo

The Site is two years old this month and has shown steady growth over that period. This month has seen the greatest number of hits so far with over 300,000 a long way from the first month's figure of  under 10,000.  
Last year showed a total hits figure of 605,339 which has risen to over 2,112,1920 for this year (Yes, that's over 2 million hits).   The site has made the Top Ten rugby sites  list on a few occassions but we've got a long way to go to catch the Saints who regularly have 3 or 4 times this number of hits!

Stats 06 - 08


I can't believe what's happened with the site and had no idea what I was taking on when I started.  In fact it all started with a remark on the National League message board.  There were a couple of threads specifically about the Chiefs and one of the regulars on that site suggested we take our parochial business elsewhere!  So I started with a blog, found this was not user friendly and very limited.  This led to a suggestion I look at sportnetwork and with a little help from a Cov fan (thanks James) who designed the first Logo the site was started in October 2006.

The First Logo

Once I'd learnt about the mysteries of HTML I was able to try my hand at producing the next Logo.

Come On You Chiefs.....

When the Saints joined us in Div1 this was much too close to their Logo so I decided to make a further change.  At the same time I wanted to get away from the 'unofficial' tag because there is no way fans using this site are unofficial supporters.  So I moved the site to it's current title and I'm glad to see The Tribe gaining recognition amongst the Sandy Park faithfull.

The Tribe Logo

The Tribe are now proud to sponsor Lewis Stevenson and have recently welcomed The Friends of Exeter Rugby Club to the site with their own message board.

We've now got a small, regular band of writers and in the last 2 years we've only 'lost' the site twice due to lack of content.  The site is gradually attracting a larger following amongst Chiefs fans.  However we still need more people to write stories, match previews and reviews.  It's not that difficult and doesn't have to be a masterpiece of journalism (whatever that might look like).  I'll be putting another article together on how to lay out the article but in the mean time send your copy to me and I'll do the rest.

A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: Unofficial Chiefs (IP Logged)
Date: 02/10/2008 23:26

A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: Sponge62 (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 08:51

Happy Birthday! And well done Moorsman on setting up and maintaining the site. It has grown and developed well over the last couple of years and is becoming more & more popular with Chiefs (& other clubs) fans as word spreads. A vibrant message board community can be vital in the development of a club, the unofficial ECFC site, Exeweb was an essential componant in saving the club for instance. So thanks once again Moorsman, you have done a fine job!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:10:03:08:52:17 by Sponge62.

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: armychief (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 09:42

Well done Moorsman. This is a fantastic achievement.

I like your headress too!

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: Orangechief (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 10:14

Well done Moorsman. [:wor kid:]

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: fisher (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 12:27

Thanks and well done Moorsman and I have told my wife it is not me that has hit the site 1000000 times!!

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: ROBERT PUTT OF TEIGNMOUTH (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 13:29

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Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: ROBERT PUTT OF TEIGNMOUTH (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 14:06

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Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: ROBERT PUTT OF TEIGNMOUTH (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 14:18

dont know why my faces never came out any way well done moorsman and the gang and good luck to the chiefs on saturday and good luck to bob farrel and table toping teignmouth also good luck to the teams that are playing pirates and albion also good luck to launceston and who ever is beating newton abbot this weekend.
keep up the good work moorsman(Sm152)

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: chiefswatcher (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 16:22

smileys dont work if the thread has been started as an article like moorsman has done here. their ok if its a standard thread

ive no idea why

chiefswatcher

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: ROBERT PUTT OF TEIGNMOUTH (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 16:32

thanks fot that chiefswatcher
a gentleman

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: UltraViolet (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 17:18

I can see the smilies!! If you scroll through the threads using the 'Previous' and 'Next' option at the bottom of the board it doesn't show the article, just the posts. If that makes sense! It's been a long day! (Sm106)

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: torpoint albi (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 19:33

Well done Moorsman great effort.(Sm128)

Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: Moorsman (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 20:37

Thanks everyone, keep spreading the word. Make sure everyone around you knows about the site.

I'm looking forward to visiting Brickfields next week Albi.

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Re: A look at The Chiefs site on it's 2nd birthday
Posted by: ChaderExe (IP Logged)
Date: 03/10/2008 21:52

Beers on you tomorrow!

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