Promotion: invite your friends
And earn a special star
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Promotion: invite your friends
Alright, here's the situation.
We've been online since 2011-11-30, and we only have 24 registered users, 10 of which never posted at all. I did what I could to promote this website on a few related forums (smspower, project2612, SSRG, RetroHack), but apparently we're still not known enough (just a few hours ago someone asked a question about Neo-Geo VGM files on smspower, for example). We need more activity on the forum, so here is the deal: I am instating a promotional campaign of sort, meaning that if you invite your friends and they become active users on the forum, I will award you with a new special star on your profile, and maybe some additional powers on the forum. The usual bottom line applies: don't abuse this or you'll regret it, as the special star you will be awarded will be gray in that case.
Tell your friends to write your username in the "Personal Notes" field when they register (that field could really be more used in general, but that's another topic).
Please note that this will be subjective. Inviting 9000 people who don't even know what is a music note won't make you eligible for the special star; on the other hand, if you know some amazing programmer/composer/ninja who comes here and starts brilliant conversations on par with awesome people such as ValleyBell, we will know how to thank you. Ideally I'd say that if you invite 3-5 cool people it would be neat.
Spread the word!
We've been online since 2011-11-30, and we only have 24 registered users, 10 of which never posted at all. I did what I could to promote this website on a few related forums (smspower, project2612, SSRG, RetroHack), but apparently we're still not known enough (just a few hours ago someone asked a question about Neo-Geo VGM files on smspower, for example). We need more activity on the forum, so here is the deal: I am instating a promotional campaign of sort, meaning that if you invite your friends and they become active users on the forum, I will award you with a new special star on your profile, and maybe some additional powers on the forum. The usual bottom line applies: don't abuse this or you'll regret it, as the special star you will be awarded will be gray in that case.
Tell your friends to write your username in the "Personal Notes" field when they register (that field could really be more used in general, but that's another topic).
Please note that this will be subjective. Inviting 9000 people who don't even know what is a music note won't make you eligible for the special star; on the other hand, if you know some amazing programmer/composer/ninja who comes here and starts brilliant conversations on par with awesome people such as ValleyBell, we will know how to thank you. Ideally I'd say that if you invite 3-5 cool people it would be neat.
Spread the word!
Also known as nineko.
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I believe youDalekSam wrote:If it's worth anything, I invited Reverie immediately after joining here, so you know.
See, that's the spirit.
Also known as nineko.
One month later, we still need more activity
That's it, I'll post on the OverClocked ReMix forums, even though this means that I have to lose one of my alternate accounts, I'll use one with few posts.
Also known as nineko.
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More activity won't help with Google; for that we would need more referrals, aka more links coming from other websites, possibly important ones.
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Kind of hard when mdscene itself doesn't rank high... although admittedly it's the first non-YouTube entry for "mdscene" in the search results. Also, if you look up "mdscene.net" (in which case mdscene's home page obviously is the first hit), vgmrips scores higher than Project MD =P (but less than OergServ, although I can see why).
vgmrips is the fourth hit if you search "vgmrips" on Google. Not good =/
vgmrips is the fourth hit if you search "vgmrips" on Google. Not good =/
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I have an idea to get some more referrals, though it would require a lot of work. I'll see if I can set it up in the next days. In the mean time, keep inviting
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I had a quick look at the home page source and noticed you don't make use of any keyword metatag. You could try the following snipet and wait for a few days. It works usually well with common engines like Google.
You can certainly spam the search spiders with more relevant keywords.
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<meta name="keywords" content="vgm rips, vgmrips, vgm, ym2151, ym2203, ym2413, ym2608, ym2612, ym3812, opl2, opl3">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">