Rob Laidlaw

VerticalScope launches ATV.com

We proudly unveiled our 3rd powersports site today with the launch of ATV.com. The ATV market has been growing at a crazy pace the last few years, and according to industry reports is now LARGER than the motorcycle market. I was a little shocked to hear that statistic at first too, but once we dove a bit deeper into the market, we realized just how big it really was.

We are excited to have a site that I think looks better than the competition, has great content, and with the industry-leading domain name. Having just gotten back from PubCon, all the marketing and SEO in the world won't give you the name-brand recognition, SEO-value, and type-in traffic that ATV.com gives us. The domain is worth millions - if not more. We promise it to use it to its full potential.

Link: ATV.com: Videos, Reviews, Prices, & Pictures of ATV.

UFC 65: Hughes vs St Pierre

UFC 65 is on Saturday night, and we are expecting a ton of traffic on MMA Forum. The MMA site has been a pleasure to build We started this site from scratch and the traffic growth has been simply phenomenal. It was aided in the beginning with some traffic from WrestlingForum.com, but then really took off with some SEO work. Its been top in the search engine rankings for a while now.

Last night we just unleashed the brand new design for the site. It looks kick-ass, and gives this site a modern feel (as far as forums go anyways!) ... we can't wait for Saturday night. Expect over 50,000 visitors to visit the site over the weekend, and we hope to register about 2000 - 3000 new members off that traffic (the rest just casually browse without signing up)

Link: UFC 65 MMA Forum.

Shameless Promotion

This weekend is UFC 63 in Anaheim. UFC seems to be one of the hottest youth markets right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if the enterprise grows larger than WWE Wrestling. Anyways, if you are looking for news and results, then make sure to login to the site on Saturday evening.

Link: MMA Forum - UFC Forums - UFC Results.

I will be sitting at home watching the event on Pay Per View... and making sure our site is up! Its actually one of my favorite sites that we own... traffic is growing, and we built it from the ground up (rather than acquiring). I expect it to have 10,000 members by early 2007.