Come Play With Us (earn a free tshirt)
 

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

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What if we already got people to come here and be regulars?

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Very cool. I've already chanced the url on all the other forums where I had my FFR sig, and my myspace for this. I like it how it seems like even more encouragement to get new people to join.

Re: Come Play With Us
 

Then I thank you for your dedication.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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Go back in time and refer them to FFR with the link.

Awesome idea, Synth.

Re: Come Play With Us
 

Synthlight has been messing with this for a good portion of this day, so make sure you use it. If all goes well, maybe that fast food chain won't be just a dream, eh Synthlight? =P

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We get plenty of word of mouth and search engine traffic in. Don't get me wrong. I just want to expose people outside of our community and interest.

Many of you from WAY back came here from places like addictingames (before they were purchase) and were introduced to FFR before even DDR.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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If anyone has questions about linking code or bbcode etc, please ask. We can definitely answer those questions.

Cheers,

Synthlight

*Double post for the win*

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Youre welcome XD.

This doesnt really benefit me though. I introduce everyone to this site by word of mouth or by them watching me play at school :(

Re: Come Play With Us
 

and it is people like you that really helps us grow. Believe me when I say I am thankful.

Right now we are thinking somewhere (throwing this around) at or under 5000 unique inbound clicks for a t-shirt.. When you think about it, you place the link in your banners on other sites or place it in high traffic areas and you could quickly accumulate that many inbound links. We would then have a system that would send you a coupon for 100% off + no shipping and voila.

We would rather pay you guys to advertise and bring people into our community than someone else.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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I think this is a great idea. Seeing as I'm broke and heavy in networking sites, this will work well to my advantage...(evil laugh) and also help FFR, of course....(shifty eyes)

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If I ever get my site done, I'll see about putting it up.

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so where would we find this scoreboard?

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Great idea Synth. Tell me when you implement this to the main menu.

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Front page underneath profiles.

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http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/.../SiggyEdit.php

I added this option to your siggy for forum siggies.

Re: Come Play With Us
 

Um...

Why not just make it AUTOMATICALLY that link?

ps where is the feature where I can see the count of people who clicked links?

EDIT: Oh I see. It's just a little table on the home screen. I think it deserves it's own page, but that's just me.

Re: Come Play With Us
 

I like this idea alot.

As for any other ideas, I say we see how well this does first.

Good thinking Synth.

-Cloud-

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Main page below the profile block.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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very fancy... Thank you much JasonKey. And thanks again Synth, great idea IMO.