Have finally got the new website for Jonny Marray looking something like, so please visit it and let me know your thoughts.
There will be more photos and a better profile on there soon, but wanted to get something up before the end of the season and then I can improve it as I'm going.
Any suggestions for future developments would be very welcome as well as any (constructive) feedback.
also dunno how you get such sites to media attention, e.g. bbc.
whenever they cover a strory on tim / greg / andy, there's always a link to their official site. would be great if the same could happen with jonny / alex / others, but don't know how you bring this to their attention?
the bbc have said they will link to our site for alex when they do an article. the lta link to alex when they do stories which is good.
i think you just have to ask them.
edit: if u look at the bbc, their story on alex going for top 50 doesn't link his site, but the story on his loss to tim does. i think its just a case of them remembering.
-- Edited by Count Zero at 16:02, 2006-11-20
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Fantastic site Bladetiger, it looks really, really great I wish I could build a website as professional looking as that.
I'll definately add it to my favourites and check it out regularly. Can you flag a link up on here when you have a new article on there so that we don't miss it. I'm very much looking forward to the return of the Bladetiger special "Sun style" news headlines, they've been much missed over the past 6 months.
With the BBC, as Count said, if you send them an email telling them about your site, there should be no problem in them linking to it in news articles on Jonny. And if they forget, you just send them another email saying "put my link up or else I'll ban you from the site you gits," that should do the trick.
The key is getting it on google as the BBC told me that their writers and newspapers journalists check the google pages for official site links when they write articles. Now alexbogdanovic.com is on google [about 5th or 6th on the 1st page, I think] it should be linked to in all BBC articles.
You have to watch out for newspapers pinching your official content without mentioning your site. Count and I have had that a few times, been able to sort it out though and got some good deals in
If you contact the LTA, they'll be more than happy to put a link to your site on Jonny's LTA page, that gets quite a lot more clicks and they should link to it in their articles on Jonny if you ask them.
Do you have Skype for contacting Jonny abroad or do you use msn ?
sites like google work i think on number of links from other sites to the site you want, so getting mentioned on bbc, lta etc is bound to boost how high up the sites appear!
ultimateshedman wrote: Fantastic site Bladetiger, it looks really, really great I wish I could build a website as professional looking as that.
I'll definately add it to my favourites and check it out regularly. Can you flag a link up on here when you have a new article on there so that we don't miss it. I'm very much looking forward to the return of the Bladetiger special "Sun style" news headlines, they've been much missed over the past 6 months.
With the BBC, as Count said, if you send them an email telling them about your site, there should be no problem in them linking to it in news articles on Jonny. And if they forget, you just send them another email saying "put my link up or else I'll ban you from the site you gits," that should do the trick.
The key is getting it on google as the BBC told me that their writers and newspapers journalists check the google pages for official site links when they write articles. Now alexbogdanovic.com is on google [about 5th or 6th on the 1st page, I think] it should be linked to in all BBC articles.
You have to watch out for newspapers pinching your official content without mentioning your site. Count and I have had that a few times, been able to sort it out though and got some good deals in
If you contact the LTA, they'll be more than happy to put a link to your site on Jonny's LTA page, that gets quite a lot more clicks and they should link to it in their articles on Jonny if you ask them.
Do you have Skype for contacting Jonny abroad or do you use msn ?
Thanks for the comments, the LTA did put a link on the last Jonny Marray article and seem very interested in helping.
Will be submitting sites to google and so on, but agree with you about the importance.
Dont have skype yet, was just speaking to him on mobile or at hotel but that could get expensive and negotiating your way past some Ukrainian hotel switchboards was not partic' easy so need to sort out something better for the future.
Cool site, and without a doubt the best way to get more hits and to get it high up on Google is for Jonny to do something that the BBC see fit to report on and make sure they use the link. Of course, the BBC have far too much power given what an incompetent bunch they are, but if you can't beat them ...
Btw, well done on avoiding unnecessary overuse of the word 'official'
(sorry David, couldn't resist! )
-- Edited by steven at 22:35, 2006-11-20
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goldenboy wrote: sites like google work i think on number of links from other sites to the site you want, so getting mentioned on bbc, lta etc is bound to boost how high up the sites appear!
Yeah that's right, this site has at least 100 different links from other websites which is why's it's top on google for some phrases
Btw, well done on avoiding unnecessary overuse of the word 'official'
(sorry David, couldn't resist! )
-- Edited by steven at 22:35, 2006-11-20
Lol
The "official" is important though, it enables people to see that the information actually comes from the player himself unlike Tursunov's website for example, which is unofficial.
It carries a lot of force aswell when getting past annoying people at tournament offices in Britain and Europe to find out results and in some cases, get match information