Insimenator.org

Ok,
So as you all know the insimenator is a very sought after program/website.
While looking for just the website on google, you get thousands of hacks and mod results.
All of which have nothing to do with what you want.
So what im trying to say is that it would be helpful if the site was better known as .insimenator.org instead of .insimenator.net.
Even me who knew the website was now .org but not knowing the actual address, found it hard to locate.

I know many of you dont see the point in making more affiliates or advertising, since you already have the site but think of the newbies that hear of a great site where they can download the best sims content and they cant find it.

If there are easy, free ways to advertise this site I think it should be done as it would be helpful to all who use it and also bring new content to the insimenator.


Thanks for your time and if you have any constructive critism then I would love to hear it.

We're already the top result if you google "insimenator".

well I found the site hard to find when typing in insimenator.org plus that result doesnt look too good with just IS as the title I would not have thought that was the site.

the IS was used when we first got the site up and running and because of the knee-jerk reaction that no-one wanted to be associated with the name insimenator!

I think the IS can be changed though if it makes it easier to find

...or change it to 'IS IS INSIM' to really confuse hell out of people. :P

Kind of like the IS myself.  Not like the actual mod will be updated, or is supported here.  Farther away from it's creator, the better in my book. 2pfft

yer I dont know....
Naming a mod after a site or viseversa is a strange thing to do in my opinion
Maybe Insim be better as Jenna sort of suggested.
At least that name sounds like a sim content site

Yes fair enough the site doesnt want to be associtated with the insimenator but by trying not to be like it the site has effectivly made the insimentaor and itself like one thing.
 2pfft

I know its a hard call as far as naming the site goes but I dont think IS is a good name for such a nice site.

Neither did most of the staff, but we kind of got overruled by the one that has our data base. Among others.

Yeah, well, none of you were reaching any kind of useful consensus. :P Besides, with TS2 itself being a finished product, the Insimenator may as well be considered finished, too. Perhaps it will be revisited in TS3. With the original Insim apparently utterly kaput, we seem to be it.

Google is for finding websites that you don't know the address of. If you do know the address (which, if you were Googling 'insimenator.org' and not 'insimenator', you do), you use the address bar, not a search engine.

Ok it's very easy to find this site. All you do is type insimenator.org into your address bar and click go.
And poof you're here. It's really not that hard to find if you know the address.

I undersand how to use google and I do know the address but if you read all of my main post you would have read that lots of new people DONT know the addy which in turn makes the site hard to find!

If you are going to comment read the whole post

wistful,

Most new people will have probably visited other sites, heard mention of the InSim, and be directed to the new addy. InSimenator.org has been spammed across the whole of the Sims community, and one way or another, they'll find their way here. Those that have a shred of common sense will also simply GOOGLE it. Poof. 

Granted, there will always be a percentage of new users who will never be able to find it, but...so be it.

That does remind me of something, though. Do we have a site button yet so people can put them up for users that want to visit us and join?

Y'know, I don't think we do; and that is something we should have. Maybe we could roll that into the upcoming banner design contest? Or maybe someone could just whip something up real quick, and we could vote on our favorite?

(Hell, I could do something myself this weekend)

I must have missed all the glorious discussions on the name in all the rucus.  I don't associate the name insimenator or insim with the unamed unseemly ex-site owners/creators.

InSim is the community that out lived it's betrayal & the creators, members, moderators,(rebel with a cause) who saved it.  If people want to find the mod that's here too; so keeping the name is only logical imho.  Seems a better way to thumb your nose at the 2 who thought themselves the wiser.

As one who came along at a time when they had made themselves scarce long before the sell out, I never knew them anyway, & it was quite easy to see that it was the folks here that made the site what it is.

But heck you could call it "Cookies & cream", somewhere in the back of my head I'd be thinking 'oh u mean InSim' anyway.


& omg 1giggle  xsweetruinx did you really just explain how to use the address bar? :D



Google search results: insi 1explode me 1explode or. 1explode net  ERROR page not found   1headwall


See:   Insimenator.org 1okay

Interesting view there....
well I myself Like the name cookies and cream
Its the best ice cream flavour around and it sounds cool
so maybe the site could renamed.

COOKIESANDCREAM.org
for all your simming needs come to the site with it all

you could make a cool banner with a cookie on it.

nar im just messing but thanks for the discussion I know many of
you dont find the site hard to find but a little more advertising like with
the buttons on myspace and such would be a great addition to help
make Insim a really well known site.


Thanks for all your time and effort in thinking about this discussion.

I did read the whole post. If people are looking at this thread they're obviously able to find the site.
And google just gives a bunch of different results so it's not because of this site.

Maybe people can make a little button to put on websites or something so people can find it.

DaSpecial1 yea I did...xp

Yer ok then but im not talking about the people on the site
Im talking about how hard this site is for people who have heard of the site but dont know the address....just the name
And im sure if you read the post corectly you would find this post is about brainstorming ways that the site can be better advertised.

So all im saying is its hard to find
XP

Wait... what?
The site is hard to find?
The link is www.insimenator.org
How could it possibly be any simpler?

wistful shadow was pointing out about the IS bit - that's the actual forum name that displays - people may not automatically associate IS with insimenator, I think that was the original point

Exactly what Ali said.
I was trying to say that many people still associate the insininator mod with Insim
some think its the same thing.