Building 8 communities from a single Drupal framework: 1000% increase in pageviews
gauravmishra7
Shash
Case Study on how we helped India's leading local search engine re-launch niche based communities in 1000% page views increment since January launch. Close to a million pageviews in a last 2 months.
Key features which we will cover during the presentation:
- Building a base framework to build 8 communities; taking design decisions.
- Using the framework to develop 8 communities in 8 months.
- Use of Aegir to deploy communities
- Migration from Joomla to Drupal
- Managing each community separately
- 20 different API integrations for deals, events, colleges, products
- Gamification and points system across communities.
- Easy roll out of functionality via "Features"
Few other stats which we will highlight
- Greater than 300 users during peak times,
- Engagement has increased 5x times
- while using Drupal as a framework rather than just as a CMS.