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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
(Post 18754007)
So will 500 other writers which makes any advantage null and void.
The most amazing thing about this thread is the complete lack of creativity. You all seem to be doing exactly the same thing, slinging mud at a wall in the hope something will work. Every good idea is leapt on and copied, which doesn't make it a good idea.
A good idea is something that can't be easily copied and still works. The most successful are those who came up with something new, not those who copied everyone else.
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OK, jackass, I'll go ahead and divulge something that I'm working on right now.
It's a March Madness/World Cup style single elimination tournament which will ultimately decide who is undoubtedly the hottest new porn star of the year.
This is the 2nd year. It started with 32 girls last year, there was no prize, there were no sponsors, and there was still a lot of participation.
This year I lined up an agency (OC Modeling) to sponsor b/c I felt that it would increase participation amongst at least their girls and would also provide the agency with a unique opportunity to increase their exposure to a plethora of hot new talent.
I also lined up your boy Geezer from over at B&B to supply the prize. Winner gets the $3K USD 24ct gold dildo and runner up gets the smaller one. The prizes also serve to encourage participation.
http://goldsextoys.co.uk/ayona-2way/
At the start of the tournament, the total combined # of Twitter followers for all 64 girls was 1,015,744. At the start of Round 2, the total combined # of Twitter followers for all 32 remaining girls was 807,192.
Why do those #s matter? Twitter is the primary medium that which the girls lobby for votes and total # of followers was a variable that weighted heavily in the secret formula that I used when determining the seedings thereby making it likely that the ones who make it to the championship will be the ones who have made the most tweets to the most total followers.
The data hasn't been fully analyzed yet, but so far many of the girls have retweeted my tweets, many of the girls have made additional tweets on their own to lobby for votes, and there have been cases where girls that whom I had not yet Tweeted were already working their fans. Girls have asked to have their profile pictures changed b/c they want to make sure that they are putting themselves in the best position to win. I've received mentions from their followers and I've received mentions from the followers of their followers. That's 4 degrees of separation and it would honestly not surprise me in the least if I were to get a mention from Kevin Bacon when it's all said and done. :thumbsup
Though the plan was entirely contrived, it was done so in a way to where word will spread virally in an organic type way. It's fun, people enjoy it, there's something in it for everyone, and I've also received a shitload of non-recip linkbacks. Best of all, voting for round two has not even finished yet and there are more bigger and way better promotions planned for the remaining rounds.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
(Post 18754028)
So tell me what's wrong with what I said.
Yes Roald getting traffic is easy, getting the fuckers to buy something is King. If the only solution is to copy each other and all try to do the same thing, list on the same lists, use the same tools. There's 500 with 5,000 blogs on the same track.
You got in very early with the message board idea and were clever enough to build it better than the others. Did you do this by copying everyone else or by trying new things?
And that's the problem with online. There are very few innovators, discounting those who innovate the wrong idea. How many Met Art's are there. How many people were getting girls into the back of vans when Bang Bus came out? Which tubes started in 2007 and made it big. Which Tubes started in 2011 and died?
OK blogging is a great idea. A way to capture a possible customer. But if they're all chasing similar key words, using the same lists, tools and writing stuff only for a spider. It's a constant fight to stay still. Because everyone else is doing exactly the same.
Now point out what's wrong with this statement or just come up with the same stupid replies. That's another copycat action. And we have more than enough copiers already.
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I agree with much of what you say here, but i would actually like to see someone try to copy the model from above and to do it well because it would likely give me more better ideas. As it stands, and because of circumstance, I'll likely only be able to implement 13 or 14 of the 35 new ideas for the tournament that I had jotted down throughout the year. If someone else does a similar style tournament and does it well, it could lead to me having 5, 6 or maybe even more new ideas. Fleshbot did their thing late last year, but it was so horrible that I wasn't even able to net one idea out of their efforts. Something that really comes as no surprise when you consider that the entire Gawker network has gone slowly downhill since Lockhart left.
http://straight.fleshbot.com/5878156...tar-champion-2
Funny they still have this up when the pics don't even work. This was from 6/7/2010 which was probably only 3 or 4 days after I started my first ever website. :thumbsup
http://straight.fleshbot.com/5557140...ld-cup-of-porn
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
(Post 18754034)
You *may* be ok right now but this year will be the year Google aims to kill thin content.
You need a mix of great written content, social integration and user interaction. This takes more hard work the mass produced crap methods some people suggest.
Morphing feeds are duplicate content, spun content is duplicate content, your content needs to be well written, grammatically correct, quality and original content now. Google is all about reducing the web search footprint, that means crap will be more likely to go than high quality content that get's shared socially.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
(Post 18754062)
Providing it's not "thin content". 150 words for an affiliate link or two is pretty thin.
Google wants to see content rich sites that users enjoy, it doesn't want to see cookie cutter blogs with a hundred words of text, some FHG pics and affiliate links.
With Google you need to read their signals and read between the lines, they're reducing the search footprint, they have to, millions of indians create wordpress sites every day.
Unless your site is full of high quality, original, engaging, shared and socially integrated content then you're going to be fucked by the end of this year.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
(Post 18754083)
Do you guys read anything outside of GFY ?
If you haven't seen the torrent of comment and opinion about thin content and Google's intention to reduce the search footprint then there's nothing I can do to help you.
Start reading more broadly, read some of the authority sites about search, follow matt cutts on twitter and learn to read between the fucking lines.
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Listen, you stupid fucking abo cunt, nobody is impressed with your bullshit and aside from what I just mentioned up above, you have absolutely no clue as to what I'm doing with any of my sites, or what anyone here is doing with any of their sites for that matter, so it would be best for you to just cool it with the ignorance based judgments, shut up, listen, and learn because I am about to explain to you why your entire outlook is SEVERELY flawed from a fundamental standpoint.
While I do agree with your outlook for the next year or so, the underlying reason why those things are likely to happen are because the goal for each update is to not only make search better for the consumer, but to minimize the net positive impact which can be gained by building heavily systematic networks. Google does not like heavily structured blogging systems. Period. My contact at Google, who works on the search team for a major European market, put it to me this way - They feel that users will benefit most if the internet more closely resembles a downtown with character than a cookie cutter collection of suburban strip malls. That's what you're doing. You're building strip malls. While it seems as if your system is and will remain to be technically sound for the moment and yada yada yada, it is still a system, systems are bad, and you can rest be assured that over reliance on any system whatsoever will eventually come back like a dingo to bite you in the arse. So while it seems as if colmike is breaking every rule in the book, your very limited little book, his 'system' works because his system is not really a system at all.
In sum, if you're just the type of person that needs to follow some type of system, any type of system, my suggestion to you would be to read
this book, go back and read a bunch of my seo related posts, and then just pretend to be me. Do that and you'll be fucking golden. Good luck!
