Separate Excel forum website?

[Jon]

I've considered creating a dedicated Excel forum on its own website, where the Excel forum here would actually take you to that site. Also, thought about changing the Forums tab to Access Forums, and put Excel Forums adjacent to it, which would take you to another website for Excel forum discussion.

Your thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? Any ideas on what to call it if I did create such an entity?

 

[CJ_London]

how about XHell?

 

[pbaldy]

ExcelWorld?

 

[Jon]

Every domain name under the sun is taken, but I did think of excelworldforums.com or excelfornerds.com.

What are your thoughts on the concept of creating a separate Excel forum website?

 

[pbaldy]

Wouldn't it dilute traffic to this site, to your detriment? I can see a positive of it being Excel-focused, rather than a subset of an Access site.

 

[Jon]

We don't' get much traffic specifically for Excel, but both apps crunch data, so there is a big overlap. I am wondering if I can piggyback one off the other, to help it get some traction.

 

[Jon]

It's a web SEO thing. I have to know all that rubbish.

 

[AC/DC]

Yes, if you're attempting to build an Excel website/forum like this one. The only reason I came here is because it shows up as an Access forum/website in google search. If I searched for Excel and came across an Access forum/website as a result I would ignore it. As for the name, mirror this one. That way you tie the two sites closely together. Thereby, leveraging the new Excel users to coming here and vice versa.

 

[vba_php]

The only reason I came here is because it shows up as an Access forum/website in google search.

that's probably because there's a huge knowledgebase in this place, and google has been indexing it forever.

Jon, you already have my feeling on this new website you're thinking about.....