Promoting This Site

[FlameFan]

I think I asked this before, but has anything been done to promote this site online, as in with the major search engines? If you go to Yahoo or Google and search for UIC or UIC Flames or UIC Basketball, this site is no where to be found. I would be willing to get this site listed, promoted etc in the search engines, if you like, as there are a lot of people searching for UIC stuff. This would provide a lot more visitors to the site. I have included the number of searches for anything UIC for last May just on Yahoo. Look at this and consider the potential. Yahoo searches only represent about 30% of the searches out there.

Let me know what you all think about this. Now would be a good time before the season starts.

Searches done in May 2005
Count Search Term
18505 uic
2730 uic medical center
1522 uic hospital
1110 uic chicago
1034 uic pavilion
428 web mail uic
252 navy uic
192 uic flame
192 uic inc
178 uic intranet
163 uic baseball
151 book store uic
144 uic pavilion chicago
139 uic edu
134 uic university
125 uhs alumnus
120 nessie uic
107 uic library
105 uic college
99 2 435 merkblatt uic
93 uic school of dental
92 uic 435 2
90 uic pharmacy
88 apartment near uic
88 sa uic tour
85 army uic
85 sa uic
83 apartment uic
83 uic college of medicine
82 uic canada
82 uic jobs
81 campus cd champaign uic
81 uic hospital chicago
81 servant at uic
80 uic college of nursing
74 uic code
70 aaa uic
69 uic nursing
66 incoming uic
64 uic blackboard
63 uic hospital in chicago
63 uic home page
59 uic medical
58 unit identification code uic
57 campus photo uic
54 uic school of public health
53 uic nursing school
50 uic hospital intranet
49 uic college of pharmacy
49 dvd photo uic
49 uic employment
49 uic hospital jobs
49 military uic
49 uic summer session
48 uic summer
46 book medical store uic
46 event at uic pavilion
46 uic mba
46 mumbai2005 uic
45 champaign photo uic
44 uic in chicago
42 1747 uic
42 numbering scheme uic
42 university village uic
41 uic softball
39 uic flame baseball
39 uic map
38 uic dental
38 uic directory
38 uic site myspace.com
36 uic address
36 uic hospital.com
36 uic suck
35 uic housing
34 apparel college uic
34 uic rockford
33 uic emergency medicine
33 uic physician group
32 uic pavilion address
32 uic illinois
32 search uic
31 uic pavilion chicago il
31 uic dentistry
31 illinois.com uic
31 uic tuition
30 uic sph
29 uic urbana
28 uic campus
28 uic medicine
28 uic police
27 uic cheerleading
27 uic police department
27 uic doctor
27 gigafast wf741 uic
26 uic construction
26 uic graduate school
26 uic ontario
26 party at uic
26 uic rotc
26 uic yap

[Big D]

FlameFan,

You can actually find this site at most of the search engines. On Yahoo and Excite, for instance, I believe it comes up first on the list. On Google, it's like 4th or 5th....the catch? You have to search "UIC Flames message board" or "UIC proboards". In the past I did submit this site to some engines. I also submitted it to some college basketball links sites. Doing a search like "UIC basketball" is not very helpful because there are lots of more frequently visited sites that mention UIC basketball....we simply need more people to visit this site so our search engine ranking will improve.

But, by all means, please take it upon yourself to submit this site wherever possible. It can only help. If everyone helps a little, we'll be that much better off.

The disturbing thing to me is I did not see one search for "UIC basketball" in that list you provided.