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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.

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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.

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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 :(

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ouch. ;p

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ok.. It is decided.. 5000 unique legit inbounds will get you a t-shirt. If this takes off and we gain alot of traffic from it, we may cut that number down so that it is even less for a t-shirt.

Imagine if you got the link on a news site.. We would have to ship you our entire inventory. lol

Cheers,

Synthlight

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ah ok...yea ive done this for other sites as well
it was like a contest to see who could get the most ppl to join
but i don't like it being a contest...yea...ok
well i could advert on myspace...ive got over 8k friends
lots of gamers

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5000 holy **** that be really hard unless you can somehow get it linked on the myspace homepage LOL.Unless it was everytime it was clicked then it be easy.

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yeah, I don't want to think of it as a contest but more a way of us finding a way to reward our own members instead of paying a 3rd party advertising company to do the same thing.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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Haha...just try to avoid advertising in chat rooms. People hate links FTW. : O

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Let me guess, you've already tried?

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Thats true, makes sense really. Let me get some tweaks done and can hit that too.

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Bad idea, as likely that won't register for ya ;)

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I think if we get 5000 hits we should get a custom title id rather have that than a T-Shirt.You can buy a T-Shirt by a custom title thats cooler.

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You can get a custom title by subscribing also.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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Oh snap!!! GREAT IDEA.

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Afrobean has passed Evascythe by one. :(

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Yeah, I just made a thread at Sleepywood about FFR.

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nice idea

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I just purged all the blank referers. This will weed out the fake ones. Jason also added the code to prevent pages with blank referers.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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I'm at zero now. :(

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Blank referrers?

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Probably means they don't count if someone just clicks the link and closes the window. ;p

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Does this mean that giving someone the link on AIM is no good?

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Lets have a quick vote.. should we require referers or no?

Cheers,

Synthlight

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No.

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ok.. Sorry for the yo-yo.. We will count unique IP's.. We won't require referers from this point on. This stuff became so active tonight that we are still trying to figure out the best way to do things.

Cheers,

Synthlight

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I have a lot of referrals already.

ps I MADE A THREAD AT GAIA AND IT ISN'T DOING SO GREAT HOW DO YOU GUYS GET SO MANY

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Some folks are myspace monsters ;)

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The race is on. :)

Cheers,

Synthlight

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I think it would be a good idea if referrals counted as 5 ips or something.

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Yeah, that'd give me a solid +35 all for (as far as I know) alternate accounts.

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11k friends.
Yeah, I'm a whore.
Well, not anymore, I had 12k but I don't add anyone anymore and deny friend requests so it drops everyday. :]
I'm sick of the ads and crap I get in my comments.

I don't think I'll get many to join this though. =/
I can try I guess.

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Yeah, I think getting a certain number of referrals sounds like a good idea. Sure it would probably have to be a fairly high number, but it still sounds interesting.

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For unique IPs.

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Wow, thats still a ton man! In any case, thanks for all the help you guys have done! .. Looking forward to seeing who is the most involved out there too.

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**** I should set up my myspace account and spam everyone I know with the link.

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Hey, how offtin does it update? because i know ive gottin at least 2 people not from FFR to click on the link...

Is the link right?

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?u=Trigy

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It updates everytime you get another visit.

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then i dont see why im not on there, and why the others arnt changing vary much, because i put it on my sigs in other fourms and i know in one of them i got at least 1 person to visit it, and on MSN i got like at least 3 people to go there, i im not using the right link or somthing?

Link im using: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?u=Trigy

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That's your problem right there.
Use this: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...us.php?u=Trigy

If you hover that link and the one you posted, you'll notice the difference. ;-)

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This is awesome. I really like the idea. Synth/Crew, is there anyway that you could get someone to do an official FFR banner so that we could post in other forums with this?

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As a young man from new zealand, i have never played DDR (although i have recently wanted to try it).
I got into FFR through the likes of seeing a video of this dude (Shashakiro) playing some random arrows game at high speed. I had always known about this type of game but had actually stayed well clear of it due to the fact that i believed it to be too hard.
I reckon that some good advertising could come from sites like youtube... Maybe if someone did like a documentary or somthing for beginners (showing hand placement and such)

Just my two cents or 0.02 dollars

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hmm well i was thinking, if you wanted i could make a bunch of graphics to use for this...and just have those as links
it might attract more ppl rather than just a normal text link...
im really good at photoshop

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This has been discussed, maybe if you can, try making one yourself and putting it up. If people like how it looks it may attract more people. After all pretty pictures that are links draw more attension than blue text that you can click on.

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unless it says HOT ASIAN GIRLS

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dang this is a good idea, free tshirt and new members!

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This is a pretty damn good idea.

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I've put it everywhere I can possibly imagine, only problem is, no one will click on it.

-Cloud-

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People will eventually, Cloud. What, it's been a few hours? A day or two?

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nooo

... revolution.com/comeplay/withus.php?u=Triggy

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http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/comeplay/withus.php?u=Synthlight

Here, someone edit this into the first post to reduce confusion. Quote me to find out how I did it.

Edit: Oh, I see what you did to it, Synth. I guess it's up to you to do this ^ or not then.

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Good point.

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I updated those links, had a test link in there instead of the real one ;)

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IM IN

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Ah, the "2"?

You didn't take it out of the visual link name though, haha.

ps. link in my post you and I edited doesn't work for me.

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ah I see, just jumped in to be sure ;)

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Is it supposed to bring you straight to FFR_the_Game?

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Yes, it takes people to the FFR game to show what the site is about, hoping that they will give it a try and join the community.

-Cloud-

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Okay, just making sure it isn't just an improper link.

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You guys think it should to take someone to a different page?

Suggestions?

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Well I was just thinking front page.

1. that way you know the link works properly,

2. I wouldn't enjoy listening to my music and all of a sudden getting hit by the FFR theme.

It's isn't all that bad to bring you to the game though.

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Just posted "Come Play With Us" on the front page. Funny had it progressed so quickly from subscriber --> members --> full fledged app --> News story. That's how we do things around here though right? :)

Cheers,

Synthlight

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Well, it's a brilliant idea for attracting more people.