Top posters for Sept 2007

PosterPosts
satya508
FrankKalis127
Luis Martin98
Adriaan90
ghemant90
ndinakar72
thomas62
Trev25649
Madhivanan39
admin30
avipenina29
bradmcgehee24
chopeen24
rules23
dineshasanka21
jaybee21
yukon_dba21
martins20
satya.sqldba20
bhushanvinay19
Well done all!

yayyyyy am in the list again... []
Looks like Frank is revving up his engine? []

Congratulations to all. Hmmm...it's just me or what, I am seeing the drastic decrease in forum participation by most of the members after switching to the new site.[]

Congrats all

The point is that nearly all of the activity from the top posters is in response to questions, a.k.a. new threads - and it would seem like there has been a decrease in new threads.
Nonetheless - congrats to all!

<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="satya"] <P>I agree with you on activity, on the lighter side may be problems with SQL has decreased or they are busy with some other work <IMG alt="Stick out tongue" src="http://sql-server-performance.com/Community/emoticons/emotion-4.gif"><IMG alt=Wink src="http://sql-server-performance.com/Community/emoticons/emotion-5.gif"> <P>[quote user="DilliGrg"] <P>Congratulations to all. Hmmm...it's just me or what, I am seeing the drastic decrease in forum participation by most of the members after switching to the new site.<IMG alt=Smile src="http://sql-server-performance.com/Community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif"></P><P>[/quote][/quote]</P><P>[]&nbsp;</P><P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P>

I've taken a pretty hard look at the cause of this. I had expect posts to be done as Sept is a 30 day month and had 5 weekends instead of the usual 4, and also had a public holiday. However it was still a bit below what I had expected.
The biggest cause of this seems to be Google's indexing of the forum pages. Forum posts are actually a pretty stable function of site traffic. Overall traffic was very choppy were the site moved over, for example - for the keyterm 'SQL Server' the site's ranking fell from 8 to 34 for a few weeks. Traffic is about back to normal and the site's Google rankings have returned. One key difference with the new site is the ranking of forum pages in Google. Google is not giving good rankings to the forum pages (and even still has some of the old pages in the index). This means there are less new users finding the forums and asking questions for the seasoned pros to answer.
I am considering making a more prominent 'Sign Up to the Forums' button on all article pages to drive a bit more traffic to the forums. In the meantime fingers crossed Google plays nice!

I am not even top 20 tooo....[]
Congrats guys...
I will try for this month...[]