It's party time!

Some time while I was asleep last night the 1,000,000th visitor stopped by The Golf Space. TGS opened during Masters week 2006, so that puts the average at about 64,000 visitors per month. That’s “visitors” and not “hits.” Hits would be in the zillions…

I’m very happy to provide a free resource for golfers like TGS and I’m very happy to see the growth since it’s all from word of mouth advertising. TGS has no paid ads out there and mostly relies on new members generated by Hooked On Golf Blog and by other member referrals.

Anyone can have a free account and network themselves or their products and services. In fact many start-up golf networking sites have been logging in here to network themselves. How ironic and cool is that? Unlike many golf forums and sites out there, I don’t “ban” people just because they have a product or service that competes with a site sponsor and I don’t “ban” people because they are or aren’t affiliated with other golf sites who consider themselves “competitors.” I WILL however, ban anyone who spams or abuses the system.

Spam free since December 2006

During the first half year or so TGS had some spammers get in. They were posting erectile dysfunction spam, porn spam and other garbage. I implemented several countermeasures, like captcha and the "favorite pro golfer" fields to the profiles as a result. I'm happy to say those spammers haven't gotten through since December 2006.