02-28-2007, 08:02 PM | #1 |
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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: Code:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/comeplay/withus.php?u=Synthlight Any idea or further development of this would be cool. Cheers, Synthlight Last edited by Synthlight; 03-1-2007 at 08:24 AM.. |
02-28-2007, 08:05 PM | #2 |
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Re: Come Play With Us
What if we already got people to come here and be regulars?
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02-28-2007, 08:06 PM | #3 |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:06 PM | #4 |
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02-28-2007, 08:06 PM | #5 |
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02-28-2007, 08:08 PM | #6 |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:09 PM | #7 |
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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 |
02-28-2007, 08:09 PM | #8 |
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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* |
02-28-2007, 08:12 PM | #9 |
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02-28-2007, 08:20 PM | #10 | |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:25 PM | #11 |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:32 PM | #12 |
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If I ever get my site done, I'll see about putting it up.
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02-28-2007, 08:33 PM | #13 |
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so where would we find this scoreboard?
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02-28-2007, 08:37 PM | #15 |
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Front page underneath profiles.
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02-28-2007, 08:40 PM | #16 |
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http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/.../SiggyEdit.php
I added this option to your siggy for forum siggies. |
02-28-2007, 08:51 PM | #17 | |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:52 PM | #18 |
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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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02-28-2007, 08:54 PM | #20 |
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