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Myspace! Myspace! Myspace! = $$$

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by exaro, Jun 6, 2006.

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    Some of you who are slightly familiar with myspace probably know about the infamous "bulletin" feature. For those of you who don't know it allows you to post a message that can only be viewed by people who are listed as your "friends". Since my main site is targeted at the age range of 14-24 and that happens to be the most prominent age range of the ever-growing myspace generation, I decided to take advantage of that statistic.

    Along with the usual "send this page to a friend" or "post a link to this site on your webpage" link on the sites I have, I added the option to "Share this page with your myspace friends".

    Basically a person view the site clicks the link...it posts a bulletin on their page of an advertisement for my site, that is seen by all of that person's myspace "friends". If one of their friends clicks a link to my page in that bulletin it opens another opportunity for my website to be exposed to any number of more myspace users. It creates a tree branch effect that yields exponentially rising traffic.

    I expected this new feature to pull in some traffic but not in the high numbers that I did actually receive. I don't want to share a link to the site, but I will show some proof of success with some awstats screen shots.

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    My adsense earnings on the first day was $X,XXX.XX, which blew me away because it was the first time I even broke $XXX.XX :D

    I suggest to anyone, with the appropriate website, to try this technique.
     
    exaro, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  2. rewlie

    rewlie Active Member

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    wooo, i got 300 friends, all of them are girls, and i'm running a web about girls, i just put my banner, but now, i will take a try! Wait, i cant find the link, where is it ??
     
    rewlie, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  3. Telmari

    Telmari Active Member

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    wow, 58 to 24k uniques almost over night is impressive. Did you have to create a myspace profile and add a bunch of friends and stuff, or just add a "Share this page with your myspace friends..." link on your site?
     
    Telmari, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  4. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Whats the link look like? Can you post a same "share page" link please.
     
    aaron_nimocks, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  5. exaro

    exaro Peon

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    It doesn't matter how many friends YOU yourself have. It's all about other people's myspaces and how they spread it.
     
    exaro, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    hmm quite not understand, but will try
     
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  7. rewlie

    rewlie Active Member

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    the more friends, it will be spread faster than it should be.
     
    rewlie, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    webviz Peon

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    Yep, myspace is huge. They reached 3rd rank on alexa. I cannot believe they surpassed MSN. The funny thing is that they have been in existance for 3 years and they are huge. Very lucky people...
     
    webviz, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    dna_05 Active Member

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    i have that type of page on all of my websites, but i'm far from getting that traffic!
     
    dna_05, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  10. rewlie

    rewlie Active Member

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    i get that now, 1st post a bulletin about something "myspace", then most ppl will go to the page, and then click on something that post back the bulletin.
     
    rewlie, Jun 6, 2006 IP
  11. DomainMagnate

    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    wow that is a cool spike :)
    you can get a better one only if you put your link on myspace.com :p

    that traffic is probably not very useful though, like digg and other similar social stuff, unless you can turn them into your constant visitors or members etc.
     
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    What is the scripting behind such a link?
     
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  13. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Over a grand in AdSense cash in 24 hours not very useful? Sounds like a decent ROI to me!
     
    T0PS3O, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    that was a general note tops, but yes a grand is cool, yet better if you can keep it longer though, not sure what as in other days here..
     
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  15. exaro

    exaro Peon

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    I don't really expect my daily hits to stay above the 100k's and earnings over a grand and a half, but from the looks of it I think I will level off with average daily earnings in the mid $XXX.XX range...I see it popping up all over myspace.
     
    exaro, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    Can you maybe paste the html code you used for the link here so others (like myself :D) can see how to implement something like this?
     
    Lunatic, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    Telmari Active Member

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    That's pretty amazing overall!!!... I'd be curious to know what were your adsense numbers in general on this particular site before adding this new functionality?:)
     
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    Pretty amazing, how's today going? Are you expecting even more traffic today or is it starting to fall down?

    By the way, I'm also interested in the code ;)
     
    Zygoot, Jun 6, 2006 IP
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    soon he'll report back saying that his adsense account was disable for invalid clicks.
     
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    OMG, from 2 per day to 20,000 in a day? That's unbelievable! Thanks for sharing the info.
     
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