As well as the popular emo forums we now have an emo chat facility. It is relatively basic with just the one chat room at present, but hopefully it'll become popular and develop in the future.

The chat is only available to registered users and you will remain logged in until you logout/leave the site.

Please share your opinions on this new feature in the associated forum topic: Emo Scene Chat

 

As Christmas approaches, we'd like to thank you all for your ongoing participation throughout 2009.

On behalf of www.soEmo.co.uk, may I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Please share your festive experiences in the associated forum topic: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Also a quick update on how soEmo.co.uk is doing...

• 3502 members
• 28551 forum posts in 1623 topics
• 3330 Emo Scene Girls Pics
• 1007 Emo Scene Guys Pics

The Christmas break will give me some time to work on the site and tick off a few more important improvements and updates.

Hopefully www.soEmo.co.uk will continue to prosper throughout 2010.


Best wishes,

Matt
www.soEmo.co.uk

 

soEmo.co.uk would like to wish everyone a Happy Halloween.
Hopefully some of you are dressing up and will have a spooky night to remember.
Post your comments on the Halloween forum topic.

Also a quick update on how soEmo.co.uk is doing...

• 3150 members
• 26891 forum posts in 1407 topics
• 3050 Emo Scene Girls Pics
• 950 Emo Scene Guys Pics

These stats indicate a healthy increase since the last update back in July.
Furthermore soEmo.co.uk is performing well in the eyes of Google with a large amount of pages indexed, many backlinks and a PageRank of 3.

We have also recently started a Google Adwords campaign.

Recent site improvements include status updates, a sitemap, profile vids and numerous coding improvements.

We haven't forgotten about the improvements to the notifications system. It is at the top of the to do list :]

 

You wouldn't believe it, but time has flown by and soEmo.co.uk is now 2 years old.

An awful lot has changed in the last year including a complete newly designed and programmed site, which has been complimented by many. This time last year we only had about 650 members, but now the emo scene community is home to over 2500 members (a 385% increase).
The emo forums hadn't been live long this time last year, but they are now buzzing with in excess of 22300 posts.
soEmo.co.uk would particular like to thank the users who have continually posted insightful emo poems in the relevant forums section.
Now the site has a substantial user base it is great to see members really interacting with and helping out one another.

As expected, the emo pictures has been a great addition to the site with over 2500 emo scene girls and almost 800 emo guys pics.

As ever soEmo.co.uk would like to make you aware that the site is in constant development and further improvements include enhanced notifications, profile videos, the ability to block people, etc..

Please remember to also drop by our Myspace page on www.myspace.com/xx_soemo_xx

soEmo.co.uk is looking for people to help out with the site so if you feel you can spare some time please email info@soemo.co.uk

Finally the site has held a top 3 ranking for emo fashion on Google for a while now. If you are one of the many great alternative/emo fashion clothing companies please get in touch regarding marketing.

 

At last the new soEmo.co.uk Emo Scene Community is live.

You will notice the look has completely changed. The red and black belt is actually mine and that is how the idea started. The previous site was starting to look a little bland, dated and wasn't ideal for the search engines.

As well as the design and layout the coding has also been vastly improved and extra features added like the emo pictures section.

There are many other improvements throughout the site that hopefully will make it more enjoyable and easier to use.

The coding is also more secure and you may notice some limitations with user input, but if you have any issues please email info@soemo.co.uk

www.soEmo.co.uk is still progressing steadily and we now have in excess of 2300 members and almost 22000 forum posts.

Hopefully the new site along with more effort put into marketing will result in further growth.

Even through the new site is complete future improvements include an improved notification system and much more.

Like with any major site changes there might be some initial issues to solve.
If you have any problems or feedback on the site please email info@soemo.co.uk or post in the Site Feedback, help and suggestions forum section.

Thanks again,

www.soEmo.co.uk

 

This news section unfortunately hasn't been updated very often since the introduction of the emo forums as you can find everything there now.

Anyway the emo scene community is certainly still going strong with almost 1600 users and 19000 forum posts.

Numerous coding improvements have taken place since the last news update below.

A new site is being developed at the moment, which will be a lot more professional, fresh, funky and useable. The current design is looking a little tired and isn't particularly great coding wise either.

Once the new site is online and looking good more effort will also be put into promotion.

Of course any feedback is welcome prior to the new site going live and after.
Test designs to obtain your opinions might be uploaded. Keep checking on the Feedback forum section.

 

Thanks to all you emo scene guys and girls we have reached the target of 1000 registered users before expected :D

More importantly more friends have been made and meets taken place.

When time allows many more ongoing improvements will be implemented.

Finally daily monitoring and tweaks has meant that www.soEmo.co.uk is still retaining and increasing rankings on the major search engines.

 

Well things are still progressing well here on soEmo.co.uk. There are now almost 850 registered users so hopefully that target of 1000 by Christmas will be achieved.

The emo forums, with more than 10,000 posts are also increasingly active. More users are joining in along with the hardcore addicts :D

Hopefully you like the new homepage which is less cluttered and more visually pleasing. However, not an awful lot can be done with the current site design, but a totally new design is on the cards. Please send in any suggestions. Prior to this the current layout will be tweaked further with the user profiles next in line.

Marlene at Little Black Cherry, an emo clothing company is likely to be using one of our members, Naomi, to model their clothes :]

Oh and for a laugh did you know emo is the Web's 4th most dangerous word according to Guardian Technology. Read more >>

Don't forgot to aid promotion soEmo.co.uk also has a Myspace page: www.myspace.com/xx_soemo_xx

Finally, soEmo.co.uk has been no1 on Google.co.uk for emo community and no3 for emo fashion for a while now :]

 

There are now 715 registered users and the aim is to reach 1000 by Christmas, which should be a breeze. Recent additions/improvements to the site include picture ratings, improved image uploading, ability to preview and edit comments/posts, improved Meta data (to aid search engine exposure and rankings) and much more.

Some of the improvements to come include improved homepage and profile page design/layout, users' blog/journal, polls, improved notifications...

Improvements/additions to the site are discussed in the forum.

Three of our most active users - Tantra, Roxi & Matt are meeting at the end of the month :]

The YouTube video of emo / scene guys and girls off soEmo.co.uk that Vic produced already has almost 1000 views.

From now on this news section will be more interesting and used to actually announce the latest emo news such as emo bands currently touring, criticism of emo in the media, etc. Lets hope The Daily Mail write another badly researched article for us to have a laugh!

 

Since the MCR Protest lots more has been going on here.

There are now 532 registered users and the emo forums have become quite popular already with almost 2500 posts. However, the forum hasn't drawn users away from the rest of the site with lots of activity still on users profiles.

There have been more friendly meets through soEmo.co.uk.

I feel proud of my achievement with the site so far.

Ongoing development of the emo community is documented in the Feedback section of the forums and your suggestions are appreciated.

Finally Vic has produced a YouTube video of emo / scene guys and girls off soEmo.co.uk, which is sure to help promote the site.

 

Following soEmo.co.uk attendance at the My Chemical Romance / Emo protest on May 31st 2008 please view and discuss the write up:

www.soemo.co.uk/my-chemical-romance-mcr-emo-protest-daily-mail-london.php

Also view related topics on the emo forums.

 

Read more and voice your opinions about the My Chemical Romance / Emo protest in the forum:

www.soemo.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=2800037

Then add your name on the organisers' site: www.whatthefrank.co.uk/

 

A lot has been happening recently on www.soEmo.co.uk.

A major new addition are Forums covering a wide range of emo topics such as emo music and emo fashion, which will hopefully make the site even more busy.

The Browse feature has been improved and search results split neatly into pages.

The widened layout is proving to be much more useable than the slimmer old version.

Many more users' pictures are now featured on the homepage.

All the development so far and more promotion by soEmo.co.uk (and some of it's kind members) has resulted in 310 users already! The number of daily visits reached 400 recently. The site ranks no2 on Google for "emo community", which is a great result. Many more impressive rankings are present such as "emo fashion".

The development and promotion of www.soEmo.co.uk is on-going and everyones help is much appreciated.

Finally the first meet has taken place on soEmo.co.uk - Tantra_B & Sugar_Cane

 

...Referring to the width of the site layout. The old one was a bit too slim on 19" monitors and didn't fit the content that well. If you experience any layout issues please email info@soEmo.co.uk

As mentioned on Your Account page there is still a significant amount of work to do to the site including:

• Improved Browse Feature
• Improved Notifications
• Possible Forum and Groups
• Re-worked Homepage...

Over 200 users have joined the emo community now already. Invite your friends!

Finally www.soEmo.co.uk is slowly getting its name out there and is now linked with Edge Fashion - Emo Clothing.

 

Just another update to let you know the site is steadily progressing and making the continued effort worthwhile.

A news update was planned when 100 users had joined but being so busy this wasn't done and there are now 125 users from all around the world interacting (a large proportion from the UK as hoped).

The site is still subject to continued development and promotion so that the numbers carry on growing from the current relatively small number.

Thanks to Vicki for making some banners.

Please check your email and agree to the new terms and conditions if you haven't already.

Carry on supporting the emo scene people.

 

Pretty behind with this update as I have been so busy working on the site. Users can now successfully join soEmo.co.uk, create their own profile with pictures and interact with other users through comments, friend requests, etc.

A search function is available to find other users by country, town and distance from a UK Postcode. All users have their own secure account page to edit profiles, upload/delete pictures, delete comments and friends, and numerous other features.

In addition to the community aspect of soEmo.co.uk, don't forget about the useful and extensive content on the emo scene that you can comment on. Plus keep adding to the emo lyrics and emo bands database.

soEMO.co.uk is successfully progressing making all the time and effort worthwhile.
There are already 65 active members.

Google Analytics is checked regularly, which displays some very interesting and useful site traffic statistics. The daily number of visits has recently shot up to over 200. The highest so far was 327 on Feb 22.

There are a significant number of improvements still to implement. A continued enthusiasm for the site means additions are always being added to the 'To Do' list.

Furthermore, the site has hardly been promoted yet so it will hopefully get increasingly more popular, successful and useful for the emo scene.

 

After a lot of stress I have implemented a 'browse' feature that allows users to search for other emo's on soEMO via a number of factors.

Many of the community sites such as Myspace or Vampirefreaks allow you to either search for users in a certain town and country, or a number of miles from a postcode. The latter is more difficult to implement, but soEMO has both for a reliable user search.

The coding isn't the best, but unlike Myspace this feature actually works: Try and Browse Users on Myspace

The registering/profiles coding is almost complete so you'll be able to join and interact with other local emo's very soon!

 

A basic backend admin system has been developed to easily update soEMO.co.uk.

All of the emo information content: emo introduction (what is emo?), emo music, emo fashion and emo lifestyle has been completed. Have a read and post your opinions.

The site is ranking well still, even though it won't be promoted properly until near complete.

The challenging but exciting user profiles / emo community aspect can be tackled now!

Oh I have also read one of them "emo books". Shocking I know. See my review on Amazon of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture

 

Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert died of unknown causes passing away in his sleep on Friday 23 Nov.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Calvert family and Hawthorne Heights band mates. Casey will be missed but never forgotten. R.I.P.

 

I am still sorting out the emo content, but some should be uploaded tonight!

I have managed to add a directory of emo bands though, which you can add to and rate.

Thanks to the people who have added to the emo lyrics database so far especially Vic :)