Hi, I wanted to brainstorm a bit with you to see how Link Sales area can work better. I see some conflicting forum rules (duplicate threads) vs. the very nature of those kind of sales. OK some facts: If you want to sell in that forum area you need to be in first 2-3 pages since there is an volume of threads its hard to track You cannot officiall start duplicate threads but since you see the above problem, it happens all the time (example http://forums.digitalpoint.com/search.php?searchid=2857676 - and my own infractions recently) You do not share a good buy with others since that is raising the OBL (outbound links) and that would be negative for your own PR link juice. So you do not promote other peoples threads (bumping) The very nature of selling links is lots of PM and no public replies. This is because selling and buying links for PR juice will lead to penalties from search engive once discovered. So there is very little public talk about what is your site and lots of PM activity. This will automatically lower each thread since you only get PM's no thread replies and only when your on page 1-3. Then there is sharing your good buys... this also is rare in this area of the forum. Where on other parts you do review copies and say... wow great ebook. On Link sales you quite. Why? since if a lot of people buy the link on that page the link juice per link will go down. So you do not want that... result you PM and never reply to threads. The number of replies on the first page of forum http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58 is in total 4 (to all threads). A related selling forum (signature links http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=129) is for example 80+ replies to the first page threads, proofing that Link Sales is a very different type of business and duplicate threads are started all the time to actually make a sale. (my sales for example dropped 90% after I stopped duplicating threads). Why solve this? The nature of the business is different and DP is still a good volume forum, but will become less attractive to use, if sales drop. But I and everyone want to benefit from the volume of buyers and the great use of itraders here. So we all like to stay... and that's why I am making an effort in explaining the problem hoping that someone feels the same. Solution? Duplicate content is not the way, but I feel like there serious people in that forum area and they should pay something to keep benefiting from DP as sales platform. SO maybe use bumping a bit more ( started doing that now). But one bump each 7 days (after going premium is not helping in that forum area). I am suggesting a bump every 2-3 days for premium members in that specific Link Sales area. Then on top of that serious checks on duplicate threads and 1 point infractions and removal of oldest thread (not latest) and suggestion to upgrade to premium and explain bumps. I think that will clean up that area, and get more premium DP members. Who's with me?
You can bump your threads from time to time. Premium members can bump every week, others per month (IMHO).
I think a 7 day bump is justified, otherwise we will only see 'bumped' posts on the first page all the time and new service providers won't stand a chance. Probably a paid section might be a good idea ;-)
Well its bumping or duplicating. Duplicating is happing now all the time. Just for the fun try and find any original new thread that is now on the first page. You will find out how bad it is. So the new service providers problem already exists same as old. But maybe bumped thread should not stay up 2 hours for premium members to indeed allow new threads to pop-up. ------- How would you see a paid section? A section for selling links between premium members? That would be interesting and poblable easier to implement then an area specific bump.
I guess forum admins would have better stats about how many people are bumping their threads. As a service provider, it will help me if I can bump my thread every 2-3 days Paid section - You pay for every post, it's not indexed by Google and may be open only for registered / paid users. Duplicate threads won't be a big issue because people are paying for each post.
Ahhh that is interesting, paid posts. like buying credits 10 bucks at a time. I dont mind paying 1 buck for a sales post..