For those of you who said you couldn't afford a t-shirt, help us and we will send you a shirt no charge. Read below.
So we have been brainstorming about how to draw new members to FFR today and we have come up with a fairly solid idea. I wanted to pass it by all the members here before we take another step forward with it.
Basically we grow almost solely by word of mouth. Very few sites link to us and it is amazing when you think about how much FFR grows despite the lack of links from quality sites. Now imagine what we could do if we mobilized our members and gave them a reason to draw new unique traffic in and helped expose a whole new generation to FFR.
There are a few ideas but lets start with the one that we worked the most on today. We have written a script that you can include as a link in your sigs on other sites, hyperlinks, social networking sites, homepages etc..etc.. This is not just another link but rather a special link that keeps track of these things:
It knows who placed the link
It keeps track of how many people click your link
It excludes all in site FFR clicks (do not put it in your sig here)
It knows where the link was clicked
Every 5000 legit inbound links = 1 Free t-shirt
It then takes this information and assigns you a score based on the unique incoming people that click this link on other sites. These numbers will be public and displayed on the front page. So lets say Afrobean put the link in his sig on another site and had 40 people click that link. His rating would be 40 and he would then be sorted in the list on the main page by rating.
Besides people wanting to be high on the list, we will be organizing a structure that will give people credit in our store towards shirts, stickers or whatever else we have in stock. Effectively giving you a means of getting merchandise for free depending on how much unique traffic you send FFR.
It's a win/win for all. And basically, the link is like this:
Of course you would replace Synthlight with whatever your username is. We will be activating the main page block in a few minutes to see if this thing actually works.
Any idea or further development of this would be cool.
Cheers,
Synthlight
So we have been brainstorming about how to draw new members to FFR today and we have come up with a fairly solid idea. I wanted to pass it by all the members here before we take another step forward with it.
Basically we grow almost solely by word of mouth. Very few sites link to us and it is amazing when you think about how much FFR grows despite the lack of links from quality sites. Now imagine what we could do if we mobilized our members and gave them a reason to draw new unique traffic in and helped expose a whole new generation to FFR.
There are a few ideas but lets start with the one that we worked the most on today. We have written a script that you can include as a link in your sigs on other sites, hyperlinks, social networking sites, homepages etc..etc.. This is not just another link but rather a special link that keeps track of these things:
It knows who placed the link
It keeps track of how many people click your link
It excludes all in site FFR clicks (do not put it in your sig here)
It knows where the link was clicked
Every 5000 legit inbound links = 1 Free t-shirt
It then takes this information and assigns you a score based on the unique incoming people that click this link on other sites. These numbers will be public and displayed on the front page. So lets say Afrobean put the link in his sig on another site and had 40 people click that link. His rating would be 40 and he would then be sorted in the list on the main page by rating.
Besides people wanting to be high on the list, we will be organizing a structure that will give people credit in our store towards shirts, stickers or whatever else we have in stock. Effectively giving you a means of getting merchandise for free depending on how much unique traffic you send FFR.
It's a win/win for all. And basically, the link is like this:
Code:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/comeplay/withus.php?u=Synthlight
Any idea or further development of this would be cool.
Cheers,
Synthlight
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