It's CONTEST TIME!! Up to $900 in prizes (maybe more if you are good)

[baddog]

I do love running contests, especially the ones with lots of prizes, and this is one of them.

Hopefully, you have noticed in my sig that I promote T3Report.com - and some of you may have even gone to the site to check it out.

As a brief rundown, T3Report is the summation of intense spidering and data-mining analysis to create a report that identifies who links to you, and who links to the people who link to you.

Take my word for it, this is a very cool tool. So far we have been talking primarily to big program owners, and everytime we talk to someone new, they come up with a new use for it. That is what gave us the idea for this contest.

THE CONTEST:

You will need to go check out T3Report.com and then report back here with how you feel you could best use the information provided by this T3Report.

We are going to pick the three (3) best suggestions for each of the following categories: TGP, freesite and paysite. It can be how you would use it for your own site, or if you got a competitor's report.

The best suggestions in each category will get a free report of their choice (your own domain or a competitor's). This is up to a $100 value.

THE RULES:

There is no limit to the number of times you can win.

Decisions of the judges are final (the judges being Brandon aka Fight the Patent, and myself).

The contest will run until December 31, 2004, at 12:00 PM PST (unless board admins request it end earlier).

If we feel the suggestions are good enough, we may award more, but there will be at least 9 given out.

Good luck

[Juicy D. Links]

i winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Triple 6]

lol juicy

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by juicylinks

i winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Atleast give us some juicy suggestions before the rigged voting comes out LOL. seriously, your input (and all of GFY) will be great feedback. I am speaking on a traffic panel at internext as well as a showcase on the convention floor, so you may even get a plug by me in my presentations.

Fight the Plugs!

[FightThisPatent]

Sometime after Internext, we'll be adding some upgrades to the T3report. You would give us some keywords, and for every page (URL) in the T3report, we scan for your keywords, and then highlight the links where your keywords were found.

This allows you to focus on the specific traffic that you are looking for and also to get an idea of what kinds of traffic to other sites attract.

Use this new feature for your suggestions as well, as how you would/could use the T3report.

Fight the Upgrades!

[goodgirl]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

Sometime after Internext, we'll be adding some upgrades to the T3report. You would give us some keywords, and for every page (URL) in the T3report, we scan for your keywords, and then highlight the links where your keywords were found.

This allows you to focus on the specific traffic that you are looking for and also to get an idea of what kinds of traffic to other sites attract.

Use this new feature for your suggestions as well, as how you would/could use the T3report.

Fight the Upgrades!

Do you have a way to tell us what anchor text the other sites are using when linking to the main domain?

[BloodFart]

hrm.. nothing.. sorry.

[goodgirl]

Just incase you don't understand.

The report shows who is linking to this domain right? So why not have another report that shows what words are used in the links to the domain.

Like:
150 domains link to DomainX
20 domains link using the anchor text "DomainX"
30 domains link using the anchor text "DomainX.com"
100 domains link using the anchor text "XXX"

That would be helpful in trying to find the anchor text someone might want to use to rank higher for certain keywords.

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by goodgirl

The report shows who is linking to this domain right? So why not have another report that shows what words are used in the links to the domain.

Great idea, so with what you are saying, would you provide t3report with a list of keywords that you are looking to do your analysis on?

There are many software products out there that do link analysis, keyword analysis, etc. What makes t3report different is that we don't rely on meta-spidering of search engines. We do our own spidering and have the equivalent of a google search engine on our internal network (so we can do similar expression-based searching).

Search Engines limit their results to 1,000, so we have a much broader and deeper set of data, along with revealing where the linking site gets its traffic.

Fight the Comparisons!

[Manowar]

great contest

[Firehorse]

Great contest baddog and goodgirl. I wonder if you ever sleep! :food-smil

[Tala]

Wow. That thing is really groovy. Would it be worth anything to webloggers? I know those who use hosted services like Blogger.com can see for themselves where their referrers are, but what about those of us who have our own blog script?

[FrankHolland]

[Theo]

Originally Posted by Firehorse

Great contest baddog and goodgirl. I wonder if you ever sleep! :food-smil

together?

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Firehorse

Great contest baddog and goodgirl. I wonder if you ever sleep! :food-smil

Hey Dak, long time no see. Hope you and the family had a great Christmas and have an even better 2005

[thePelican]

ok ill take a look.

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by Tala

. Would it be worth anything to webloggers?

Blogs are certainly popular as people like to write down their thoughts to share with others (i run my own blog at FightThePatent.com as you may know).

Blogs attract people and those that like what they read will come back and tell their other friends. By doing keyword analysis and link analysis, the t3report could reveal some "honey pots" or "gold mine" of good traffic, where you could buy advertising.

Most bloggers don't make money, that to offer them some bucks to place a banner or link, would be nice income for them.


Fight the Analysis!

[traffic addict]

Good luck to all

[SmokeyTheBear]

hmm well right off the bat, the domain link check doesn't seem very accurate. I only see 4 links for a domain that has dozens of unique domain backlinks on google.

Maybe a bit more info on where you collect your info from.

Although a bit amusing, this picture lacks substance, and doesn't "sell" me.

[pxxx]

Interesting contest, i will take a look.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

hmm well right off the bat, the domain link check doesn't seem very accurate. I only see 4 links for a domain that has dozens of unique domain backlinks on google.

If Google shows more than the T3 report does it is because we have not yet spidered your site, but in fact picked it up because of spidering another site that had links to you.

For example, if my domain has been spidered, and I have links to you, T3 report is going to pick you up. When we start the spider from your site, there will obviously be more that what Google or Alexa has. Do a Domain Lookup on shemp.com for example.

shemp.com you will see T3 shows 2399 links, while Alexa only shows 645 and Google 332 . . . .and all T3 links are verified to be valid, live links

As we add more unique domains into the system your report will keep growing, which is one advantage to getting the yearly subscription.

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

hmm well right off the bat, the domain link check doesn't seem very accurate. I only see 4 links for a domain that has dozens of unique domain backlinks on google.

...

Although a bit amusing, this picture lacks substance, and doesn't "sell" me.

as baddog pointed out, it just means we weren't looking for that domain, and just happened to come across it via our general spidering. Once you subscribe to a report, we start looking specifically for that domain.

There is a seeding process to the spiders where we in turn, go look for new leads given a unique domain in our system, but having over 1.8M unique domains right now, it is a slow process, that is expedited by a t3report request. The stats for the domains will be updated this week with a new batch of data, including more data points that will include for each domain:

1) number of external links found from the domain (new)
2) number of unique domains pointing/linking to the domain (new)
3) number of URL's that point/link to the domain (current)

Also, search engines only give you the first 1,000 results for a query, so the results you get are limited to 1000 and to the page ranking algorithm. If you follow along with the philosophy behind t3report, there is greater goldmines of traffic in websites that already have surfers and to be able to tap into them once you have been able to identify them.


As far as the picture goes.. those are web spiders mining for gold (ie. gold rush of '69 ) Maybe we should have a different contest of coming up with an illustration that does a better job of selling


Fight the 1000 words!

[Tala]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

as baddog pointed out, it just means we weren't looking for that domain, and just happened to come across it via our general spidering. Once you subscribe to a report, we start looking specifically for that domain.

There is a seeding process to the spiders where we in turn, go look for new leads given a unique domain in our system, but having over 1.8M unique domains right now, it is a slow process, that is expedited by a t3report request. The stats for the domains will be updated this week with a new batch of data, including more data points that will include for each domain:

1) number of external links found from the domain (new)
2) number of unique domains pointing/linking to the domain (new)
3) number of URL's that point/link to the domain (current)

Also, search engines only give you the first 1,000 results for a query, so the results you get are limited to 1000 and to the page ranking algorithm. If you follow along with the philosophy behind t3report, there is greater goldmines of traffic in websites that already have surfers and to be able to tap into them once you have been able to identify them.


As far as the picture goes.. those are web spiders mining for gold (ie. gold rush of '69 ) Maybe we should have a different contest of coming up with an illustration that does a better job of selling


Fight the 1000 words!

I can't help it. I'm insanely curious about how much this would help a blogger like myself who uses his or her own script. This looks like a very interesting tool.

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by Tala

I can't help it. I'm insanely curious about how much this would help a blogger like myself who uses his or her own script. This looks like a very interesting tool.

If you have access to web logs, then you could look at the web logs to show referrers to your blog.

if you don't have access to that kind of information, then t3report might be able to help show you the people linking to you.

Knowing who is linking to you and the traffic that links to the people who link to you, may not help you with a blog site (certainly helps with paysites were $$ is involved). if you can come up with an angle, i'd like to hear how a t3report on a blog could help do X or Y or Z.

Where t3report with keyword filtering may be useful to bloggers, is that it may put a spotlight on your blog as a place where someone might like to advertise.

Say your blog is about BDSM, and a paysite was interested in buying advertising space, rather than relying on having an affiliate program.. the idea being that paying a few bucks to be on a blog would be cheaper than paying out commissions if they got sales from the advertising.

So this BDSM paysite would give us keywords to describe the kinds of websites that surfers are looking for. We do our spidering and processing, and we end up determining that the content on your website, along with the linking relationships to your site and from your site, would be a good place for you to advertise....

So then the website takes this "map", contacts the websites that look promising, and ask you if they can buy a spot.

There is an opportunity here where someone could be like a double-click and lock in ad-slots for sites from a t3report analysis and be the broker for those spots and do a rev-share with the blog/website, etc, etc.



Fight the New Ideas!

[baddog]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

As far as the picture goes.. those are web spiders mining for gold (ie. gold rush of '69 )

That would be the lesser known Acapulco Gold Rush that was quite popular in 1969.

[baddog]

bump because we have lots of prizes to give away

[baddog]

I may have to start giving some hints.

For me, owning an AVS, I might have an affiliate that is making signups that are so off the meter that I might want to get a report on his site and find out where he is getting his traffic from.

When the keywords scan is implemented, I can find out if I have affiliates using banned words.

[Not Working]

Originally Posted by baddog

I may have to start giving some hints.

For me, owning an AVS, I might have an affiliate that is making signups that are so off the meter that I might want to get a report on his site and find out where he is getting his traffic from.

When the keywords scan is implemented, I can find out if I have affiliates using banned words.

Can I use this to find out which webmasters are sending traffic to my competition? Can I then contact those webmasters and get them to send traffic to me?

[baddog]

Originally Posted by numbersguy

Can I use this to find out which webmasters are sending traffic to my competition? Can I then contact those webmasters and get them to send traffic to me?

You most certainly can. You can also use it to find out who is linked to people linked to you and then approach them so they bypass the middleman.

For example, I am sending traffic to you, and Joe webmaster is sending traffic to me. You can then approach Joe webmaster and see what it would take to get him to send his traffic directly to you.

[FightThisPatent]

Some interesting t3reports recently ordered:

aebn.net
sleazydream.com
cyberotica.com
sexsearch.com
adultfriendfinder.com

Just a sample. The T3report shows you where your traffic comes from (your weblogs can show you this as well), but we also show you where the traffic comes from, from sites that link to you. You can see traffic from 2 levels away. how can you use this info on your own domains or on a competitors?

Brainstorm some ideas and post them here for the contest.


Fight the Spotlight!

[S.L.L.D]

Has anyone figured out the IP range / name of this bot?

[baddog]

Originally Posted by S.L.L.D

Has anyone figured out the IP range / name of this bot?

bot?

[baddog]

ahhh, the spiders . . . . I understand now, and I know why you ask, so here is a little tip.

We spider from multiple locations, and we don't need to spider your site, because we can pick you up from people linked to you.

You would have to get the cooperation of the entire adult community to stop it.

To be honest, unless you have something to hide, there is nothing to fear. It won't hurt a bit.

Fight the Reluctance

[reynold]

great contest

[RevSand]

As someone who runs a blog/freesite it would be a good tool to track who is linking into you and how since most the time in the e/n (and blog area) you just link to another article you find interesting. Then you can see where they get their traffic and be able to set up even more ways to build up relationships to exchange links.

Am I getting the concept right??

[Tala]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

If you have access to web logs, then you could look at the web logs to show referrers to your blog.

if you don't have access to that kind of information, then t3report might be able to help show you the people linking to you.

Knowing who is linking to you and the traffic that links to the people who link to you, may not help you with a blog site (certainly helps with paysites were $$ is involved). if you can come up with an angle, i'd like to hear how a t3report on a blog could help do X or Y or Z.

Where t3report with keyword filtering may be useful to bloggers, is that it may put a spotlight on your blog as a place where someone might like to advertise.

Say your blog is about BDSM, and a paysite was interested in buying advertising space, rather than relying on having an affiliate program.. the idea being that paying a few bucks to be on a blog would be cheaper than paying out commissions if they got sales from the advertising.

So this BDSM paysite would give us keywords to describe the kinds of websites that surfers are looking for. We do our spidering and processing, and we end up determining that the content on your website, along with the linking relationships to your site and from your site, would be a good place for you to advertise....

So then the website takes this "map", contacts the websites that look promising, and ask you if they can buy a spot.

There is an opportunity here where someone could be like a double-click and lock in ad-slots for sites from a t3report analysis and be the broker for those spots and do a rev-share with the blog/website, etc, etc.



Fight the New Ideas!

I see. Beautiful!!

Fight the fights!

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by RevSand

As someone who runs a blog/freesite it would be a good tool to track who is linking into you and how since most the time in the e/n (and blog area) you just link to another article you find interesting. Then you can see where they get their traffic and be able to set up even more ways to build up relationships to exchange links.

Am I getting the concept right??

yes you are! and a definite contender for the contest in offering a great suggestion for the t3report analysis.


Fight the Year's Worth of Rice-o-Roni!

[TheFrog]

that is a great contest t3report looks good

[baddog]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

Fight the Year's Worth of Rice-o-Roni!

why do you know that?

[FightThisPatent]

Originally Posted by baddog

why do you know that?

You think that game show reference will fly over most people's heads?? I may look like a young'n (thanks to my azn genes), but my driver's license shows i be 33, so i would have been old enough to watch those shows... plus the young'ns could watch TVland and see the re-runs.




Fight the Ponds Creme!

[Tala]

Originally Posted by FightThisPatent

You think that game show reference will fly over most people's heads?? I may look like a young'n (thanks to my azn genes), but my driver's license shows i be 33, so i would have been old enough to watch those shows... plus the young'ns could watch TVland and see the re-runs.




Fight the Ponds Creme!

Fight the aging.

[NaughtyINC]

wow, this is an amazing offer everyone.. for those who dont know what t3report is all about do your self a favor and hit up baddog,brandon or even myself and learn what this amazing system can do for you and your traffic and how to get more!

[baddog]

anyone else want to win a free report?

[baddog]

We are under 16 hours left on this contest. At this point it looks like anyone that comes up with a good use is a winner.

If you are one of those people that feel traffic is king, or wish they had some, I would highly suggest getting a free copy of this report. You can literally find out where anyone gets their traffic, simply by coming up with a good suggestion/idea/use of this report.

[FightThisPatent]

Maybe a quick summary of the T3report that doesn't require people to go offsite to view:

The T3Report is a report on a domain (could be one of your domains or a competitors domain). Through spidering and databasing, it shows who links to the domain (ie. 1st level - referers) and who links to the people who link to you (2nd level - websites that drive traffic to the 1st level).

Your weblogs can only show you who links to you (referers - 1st level). You don't know where your referers get their traffic.

You can't see the weblogs of your competitors, T3Report can show you their affiliates and the websites that link to the affiliates.

You could use a search engine to find out the links, but the search engines limit you to 1,000 results and don't focus on adult.

T3report spiders adult space and gives you all the data.

Take a look at the sample report at t3report.com for a view of an actual report.

Post up here some suggestions on how you would use the report of you had one.


Fight the Final Countdown!

[baddog]

90 more minutes . . . get those suggestions in folks

[Lacoste]

I'd use it to evaluate the potential PR of my site. Its a powerful tool to get good link placement in link exchanges. You can't argue with solid proof. If you are looking to sell a site, this will help in showing how popular your site really is and how steady your traffic flow can be. Makes you sell for more $$$.
Do I win one????

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Lacoste

I'd use it to evaluate the potential PR of my site. Its a powerful tool to get good link placement in link exchanges. You can't argue with solid proof. If you are looking to sell a site, this will help in showing how popular your site really is and how steady your traffic flow can be. Makes you sell for more $$$.
Do I win one????

With 20 minutes to spare, I would have to say that you are in the running for sure

[TheMob]

sounds good. you really like contests, don't you baddog?

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Lacoste

You can't argue with solid proof

This is about the strongest point of your statement. If you get a T3 report on a site, there really is no argument as to what potential they have.

As Brandon would say, Fight the Facts