Welcome, welcome to account drive 2011! I am doing things a little more streamlined and scientific this year so bare with me!
First and foremost observe:
Referals
This is a list of all the unique visitors coming into the SoD site from different referring sites all over the internet. As you can see right now Something Awful and Fark are at the top of the list - two places where we currently have advertisements running.
The concept of this years account drive is this. Make a post, buy an advertisement, upload naked pictures with SoD all over your body... whatever you want wherever you want... and I will give you 1 fame point per unique visitor that comes to our site between Feb 9th, 2011 and March 15th, 2011.
I did a small test run of this in Loose Platinum - and have given out quite a bit of fame already. That Fark number above was a certain member putting up a classified there.
This is by far the biggest fame offering given the amount of time and effort that it takes to smack our name someplace. The best part is the smarter you are about placement the more fame you get - no more spamming willy nilly all over the place!
Rules?! RULES:
Once you make an advertisement or whatever it is your planning to do you can either claim credit here in this thread (recommended to avoid confusion) OR send me a PM with the information. The PM option is there for people who have small communities that they do not want to have published on the SoD forums.
Finally if you are able please use the following. This is especially important if your using a ad service where more than one person may use it:
"http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/?referrer=YOURNAME". Simply write in your character name and mention it in your post or pm so that we know who is who!
Good luck to everyone! I am scared to hell that there will be some outright titles from this but well I am a sucker for account drives. I will post biweekly reports from google analytics so everyone can keep up their progress!
Addendum: I am spicing things up! The top referrer will also get a Lucky Charm of Power on the character of their choice!
Addendum 2: I am adding a lottery for 3 Boxes of Angry Halflings, 2 Melwins Idols and 2 cash pot of 15,000 platinum that will be lotteried out to ANYONE who participates! Even if you only get one referral you are equally in this drawing!
Tao Edit -- The winners of things from this drive thing are
3 Boxes of Angry Halflings:
Stope
Naragako
Reddd (awarded)
2 Melwins Idols:
Kerolynne
Bez (awarded)
2 cash pots of 15,000 platinum:
BardofYore
GoldFolk (awarded)
First and foremost observe:
Referals
This is a list of all the unique visitors coming into the SoD site from different referring sites all over the internet. As you can see right now Something Awful and Fark are at the top of the list - two places where we currently have advertisements running.
The concept of this years account drive is this. Make a post, buy an advertisement, upload naked pictures with SoD all over your body... whatever you want wherever you want... and I will give you 1 fame point per unique visitor that comes to our site between Feb 9th, 2011 and March 15th, 2011.
I did a small test run of this in Loose Platinum - and have given out quite a bit of fame already. That Fark number above was a certain member putting up a classified there.
This is by far the biggest fame offering given the amount of time and effort that it takes to smack our name someplace. The best part is the smarter you are about placement the more fame you get - no more spamming willy nilly all over the place!
Rules?! RULES:
- The website must WANT us there. If there are rules against advertising or advertising game mods specifically do not post!
- If you cheat and try to proxy a bunch of unique views I will trace back IPs and ban you as hard as I possibly can.
- Using tricks to get people to click your ad is not allowed! No free Ipod banners people.
- No spamming! If someones posted a thread on a forum do not post another one!
- The final say in how many referrals gained by any particular person is Google Analytics! If the website tells you you have a million clicks and Analytics only shows 500 then we are going with 500. I will be publishing unedited PDFs straight from analytics to make sure everyone is on the same page. (For some reason with google adwords they charge you for clicks of your ad that do not show up as hits to us. I had 400 clicks on my google ad and only 230 actually went through to our site. Beware this sort of thing!)
Once you make an advertisement or whatever it is your planning to do you can either claim credit here in this thread (recommended to avoid confusion) OR send me a PM with the information. The PM option is there for people who have small communities that they do not want to have published on the SoD forums.
Finally if you are able please use the following. This is especially important if your using a ad service where more than one person may use it:
"http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/?referrer=YOURNAME". Simply write in your character name and mention it in your post or pm so that we know who is who!
Good luck to everyone! I am scared to hell that there will be some outright titles from this but well I am a sucker for account drives. I will post biweekly reports from google analytics so everyone can keep up their progress!
Addendum: I am spicing things up! The top referrer will also get a Lucky Charm of Power on the character of their choice!
Addendum 2: I am adding a lottery for 3 Boxes of Angry Halflings, 2 Melwins Idols and 2 cash pot of 15,000 platinum that will be lotteried out to ANYONE who participates! Even if you only get one referral you are equally in this drawing!
Tao Edit -- The winners of things from this drive thing are
3 Boxes of Angry Halflings:
Stope
Naragako
Reddd (awarded)
2 Melwins Idols:
Kerolynne
Bez (awarded)
2 cash pots of 15,000 platinum:
BardofYore
GoldFolk (awarded)