Advertising!
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Advertising!
It is officially time for us to start advertising. The website is up and running in a reasonably complete format, and we should do everything we can to recruit players. That said, I'd like the following:
1. If you have any pull with free advertising companies, banners, etc, please advertise away...you have our full approval to go forth and sing our praises.
2. If you have any ideas about how to recruit players, please post and we'll follow up on anything that sounds promising.
3. Bring some of your buddies online...find those that have addictive personalities and get them hooked!
4. We need to be posted on all of the gaming sites...anyone that wants to spend the time to do this is welcome to...also, if we're posted somewhere, go out and write a favorable review for us...can't hurt!
5. Convince all of your buddies that graphic RPGs are bad for their eyes, will stunt their growth, and cause impotence.
C
1. If you have any pull with free advertising companies, banners, etc, please advertise away...you have our full approval to go forth and sing our praises.
2. If you have any ideas about how to recruit players, please post and we'll follow up on anything that sounds promising.
3. Bring some of your buddies online...find those that have addictive personalities and get them hooked!
4. We need to be posted on all of the gaming sites...anyone that wants to spend the time to do this is welcome to...also, if we're posted somewhere, go out and write a favorable review for us...can't hurt!
5. Convince all of your buddies that graphic RPGs are bad for their eyes, will stunt their growth, and cause impotence.
C
My first suggestion is that you submit the site to the DMOZ and Mud Connector so people can start writing reviews or cross-linking from the same DMOZ section, and find it with search engines, etc.
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Get it listed, advertised and voted for on www.kyndig.com . I'm sure those people are your target audience(they're already sensitized to addiction and ansii !) :lol:
Cruk
Cruk
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We are now listed on mudconnector, topmudsites, and kyndig. Please visit the sites and post (favorable) reviews where appropriate!
Furthermore, we have a little button on the bottom of our website (www.torilmud.org for the confused) that allows you to vote for us at topmudsites.com. Vote early, vote often!
Other suggestions are welcome. Anyone willing to do free advertising on their own heavily visited sites is welcome to post whatever you'd like including the little vote button.
Governor Cyric.
Furthermore, we have a little button on the bottom of our website (www.torilmud.org for the confused) that allows you to vote for us at topmudsites.com. Vote early, vote often!
Other suggestions are welcome. Anyone willing to do free advertising on their own heavily visited sites is welcome to post whatever you'd like including the little vote button.
Governor Cyric.
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We're certainly not trying to be annoying or ram this down your throats, but the more advertising we get, the more new players we get, and the larger our pbase is, the better it is for everyone!
We're currently #20 on topmudsites, and we had 20 true newbies online last night! Please go click on the VOTE button on our homepage...you can vote every 12 hours.
The button takes you to this page if you just want to cut/paste into your own heavily visited site:
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
Advertising Exec Cyric
We're currently #20 on topmudsites, and we had 20 true newbies online last night! Please go click on the VOTE button on our homepage...you can vote every 12 hours.
The button takes you to this page if you just want to cut/paste into your own heavily visited site:
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
Advertising Exec Cyric
If i run around my office and vote for your mud on each of the 40 computers here every day for a week can i have an artifact?
Mysrel tells you 'have my babies'
You tell Mysrel 'u want me to be ur baby daddy?'
Mysrel tells you 'daddy? No, I think you have the terminology wrong'
You tell Mysrel 'comeon now we both know i would be the top'
Mysrel tells you 'can be where ever you want to be, yer still getting ****** like a drunken cheerleader'
You tell Mysrel 'u want me to be ur baby daddy?'
Mysrel tells you 'daddy? No, I think you have the terminology wrong'
You tell Mysrel 'comeon now we both know i would be the top'
Mysrel tells you 'can be where ever you want to be, yer still getting ****** like a drunken cheerleader'
Here is the link for Toril at kyndig
http://www.kyndig.com/listings/game/609
http://www.kyndig.com/listings/game/609
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Topmudsites just reset their counter. We were well ensconsed at #5, and can easily get right back up there!
Vote for us at
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
Vote for us at
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
Cyric wrote:Topmudsites just reset their counter. We were well ensconsed at #5, and can easily get right back up there!
Vote for us at
http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
Woot! and now We're #1!! *cheer*
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I've been to a couple of sites that have you click on a text link to some other company. The site receives a certain amount of cash (eg. 6 cents) per click. Anyone have any experience with that? It's not so much advertising ourselves as it is advertising for other folks, but it makes us money with which we can advertise with banners all over the place.
You're also number 20 on Kyndig.Com Rate list. :D :D :D
From time to time I'll meander through websites which are sending traffic to kyndig.com. Just as an FYI, your website here is sending some good traffic to us; Thanks! This is one of the things we look for in our choosings of Game of the Month. The Game of The Month winners have all reported receiving an increase in new players from the kyndig.com website. I just wanted to post a quick reply with a few things that you folks can benefit from:
Free banners: I see your banners in a post above. You can have these banners rotating free of charge by visiting our free banner engine.
Use the Rate Us link: As a game lister, we do not place in the spotlight those games with the most players, instead, we place in the spotlight those games with the best ratings. Ask your players to vote SUPERIOR once a day, and you'll be quickly on your way to earning a top spotlight.
Drop in a "What is A..?" suggestion: Folks havn't caught onto this one yet. But a good way to advertise your game is by suggesting in our listing area what a MUD, MUCK, MUSH, MOO is. That's 4 categories * 30 (+) pages of free advertising there.
As another poster has mentioned. The primary focus is to get listed in dmoz.org. A majority of search engines use dmoz to start their spidering. MudConnector and TopMudSites are other sites to get a good focus on.
Also, you'll want to set your site up for success with the google bot. You already have a forum system here, but do not have a robots.txt file. Do a little research and write your robots.txt file. =)
Good luck!
From time to time I'll meander through websites which are sending traffic to kyndig.com. Just as an FYI, your website here is sending some good traffic to us; Thanks! This is one of the things we look for in our choosings of Game of the Month. The Game of The Month winners have all reported receiving an increase in new players from the kyndig.com website. I just wanted to post a quick reply with a few things that you folks can benefit from:
Free banners: I see your banners in a post above. You can have these banners rotating free of charge by visiting our free banner engine.
Use the Rate Us link: As a game lister, we do not place in the spotlight those games with the most players, instead, we place in the spotlight those games with the best ratings. Ask your players to vote SUPERIOR once a day, and you'll be quickly on your way to earning a top spotlight.
Drop in a "What is A..?" suggestion: Folks havn't caught onto this one yet. But a good way to advertise your game is by suggesting in our listing area what a MUD, MUCK, MUSH, MOO is. That's 4 categories * 30 (+) pages of free advertising there.
As another poster has mentioned. The primary focus is to get listed in dmoz.org. A majority of search engines use dmoz to start their spidering. MudConnector and TopMudSites are other sites to get a good focus on.
Also, you'll want to set your site up for success with the google bot. You already have a forum system here, but do not have a robots.txt file. Do a little research and write your robots.txt file. =)
Good luck!
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Thanks!
My goal is to implement all of the above, and I've just created and submitted a new animated banner to Kyndig (takes a couple of days for it to be approved). If any of you would like to use it for your own pages, you can see/download it here:
www.torilmud.org/animlogo5.gif
And as mentioned, if one (or more) of you could take it upon yourself to vote SUPERIOR for us once a day, we'll rocket up to the top of the heap.
Thanks again to Kyndig for taking the time to visit and browse.
My goal is to implement all of the above, and I've just created and submitted a new animated banner to Kyndig (takes a couple of days for it to be approved). If any of you would like to use it for your own pages, you can see/download it here:
www.torilmud.org/animlogo5.gif
And as mentioned, if one (or more) of you could take it upon yourself to vote SUPERIOR for us once a day, we'll rocket up to the top of the heap.
Thanks again to Kyndig for taking the time to visit and browse.
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Working on that, but we'll see. For whatever reason I'm not figuring out quite how to do that. I have the image all set, and you can view it in all its glory at
www.torilmud.org/votelogo.html
We've also:
Wish us luck!
Roy
www.torilmud.org/votelogo.html
We've also:
- -added a robots.txt file as suggested
-made a submission to dmoz.org
-submitted a "what is a mud..." entry for kyndig.com
-Auril and Eilistraee have written an article about MUDs (with specific mention about ours) for inclusion in ADnD.com
Wish us luck!
Roy
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Many of you have been very complimentary and eloquent in your praise of our game in the past.
I was hoping some of you would take the time to visit www.kyndig.com or www.mudconnector.com and review us/post about us.
If you take the time to browse those sites, you'll see that the general reviews of other MUDs are pretty lame. I know we can do better than that! If you happen to write a review, please pop me a mmail so that I can check it out. Thanks.
Cyric
I was hoping some of you would take the time to visit www.kyndig.com or www.mudconnector.com and review us/post about us.
If you take the time to browse those sites, you'll see that the general reviews of other MUDs are pretty lame. I know we can do better than that! If you happen to write a review, please pop me a mmail so that I can check it out. Thanks.
Cyric
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Hey, thanks to Shevarash I've finally got it working. If you're using Chronicles as your template for the BBS you should now see a spanky logo up top for voting at kyndig and topmudsites.
I assume subsilver is what most other folks use, and we'll hopefully get something working there as well.
Edit 11/17:
OK, I have it working on the SubSilver pages as well, and there's now an image map such that you can click on the "TorilMud" part of the image and return to the main BBS page like before. Enjoy, and please make use of the image!
I assume subsilver is what most other folks use, and we'll hopefully get something working there as well.
Edit 11/17:
OK, I have it working on the SubSilver pages as well, and there's now an image map such that you can click on the "TorilMud" part of the image and return to the main BBS page like before. Enjoy, and please make use of the image!
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Keep voting, right now we're just 1 vote ahead of that other mud that is lurking on our tails.
Lilithelle stops using a softly throbbing piece of flesh.
Gura group-says 'ill go solo the biznatch, just don't tell Stamm'
Kossuth responds to your petition with 'is it bad that the two words i think of when i see yer title are hottub and cthulhu? :('
Gura group-says 'ill go solo the biznatch, just don't tell Stamm'
Kossuth responds to your petition with 'is it bad that the two words i think of when i see yer title are hottub and cthulhu? :('
I put your banner on my website. :)
www.excessiveuseofforce.com
Now I just need some content... or like, a reason for people to go there... or something.
www.excessiveuseofforce.com
Now I just need some content... or like, a reason for people to go there... or something.
<I>When a man lies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths, which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?</I>
These are the pale deaths, which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?</I>
Re: Advertising!
Cyric wrote:... stunt their growth, and cause impotence.
C
Going limp...
Re: Advertising!
Cyric wrote:It is officially time for us to start advertising. The website is up and running in a reasonably complete format, and we should do everything we can to recruit players. That said, I'd like the following:
1. If you have any pull with free advertising companies, banners, etc, please advertise away...you have our full approval to go forth and sing our praises.
2. If you have any ideas about how to recruit players, please post and we'll follow up on anything that sounds promising.
3. Bring some of your buddies online...find those that have addictive personalities and get them hooked!
4. We need to be posted on all of the gaming sites...anyone that wants to spend the time to do this is welcome to...also, if we're posted somewhere, go out and write a favorable review for us...can't hurt!
5. Convince all of your buddies that graphic RPGs are bad for their eyes, will stunt their growth, and cause impotence.
C
http://torilmud.dyndns.org:8080/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=13397
I'd like to point readers to this excellent post by Areandon.
Yotus group-says 'special quest if you type hi dragon'
Shevarash OOC: 'I feature only the finest mammary glands.'
Silena group-says 'he was so fat and juicy..couldnt resist'
Shevarash OOC: 'I feature only the finest mammary glands.'
Silena group-says 'he was so fat and juicy..couldnt resist'
zmud
Was just wondering, has Anyone ever contacted Zmud and got him to put Sojourn in his Program as a main mud? I am just curious what the cost might be.. But I see Gem and Medivial in there.
Altan
Altan
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so i hear all of you guy's bosting about having 40/100 ip adress's that you can vote from... what if i were just to set up my computer to ping the site from each of my 1000 ip adress's i can access via T1.... what would i get?
(psill talk my dad into doing this at his workstation too)
(psill talk my dad into doing this at his workstation too)
i dont know what your problem is, but i bet its hard to pronounce
myspace.com/tgchef
myspace.com/tgchef
please ignore this, I boboed. again proving I am the one and ONLY
Duard DUmbguARD
Duard DUmbguARD
Last edited by Duard on Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
amolol wrote:so i hear all of you guy's bosting about having 40/100 ip adress's that you can vote from... what if i were just to set up my computer to ping the site from each of my 1000 ip adress's i can access via T1.... what would i get?
(psill talk my dad into doing this at his workstation too)
Hrm... Intresting terry, except you only have direct access to a single ip address, Your dad however does have access to several class b blocks, but most of those are assigned to customers, gee I only have a /29 block. remember Amolol, if your ip address starts with 198.162.xxx.xxx Your dad has you behind a nat server, and you apear as his inhome gateway. I suggest you do not claim what you can not back up. remember your Dad is my brother.
Ps, you ask us to recruit friends family and others with the addictiive personality. Amolol is an example of recruiting, maby not the best one, but an example none the less.
Any updates on the advertising front?
Click on the links below and vote for this mud!
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
The Mud Connector: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/vote_ ... ner's+Home
MudMagic (aka Kyndig): http://www.mudmagic.com/listings/game/609
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topm ... gi?id=shev
The Mud Connector: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/vote_ ... ner's+Home
MudMagic (aka Kyndig): http://www.mudmagic.com/listings/game/609
We can get a little icon next to our listing in the rankings at 5 bucks a month, or 30 for 7 months.
We can also get a 468x60 banner displayed at the top (in the rotation) for 30/month or 150 for 7 months.
180 bucks for 7 months of graphical advertising isn't much...all we need is 40 people willing to give up 5 bucks twice a year.
We also need some sort of banner. Since the new logo design contest has ended, I haven't seen any form of one.
And as always...there's my zMUD button code in the clients forum.
We can also get a 468x60 banner displayed at the top (in the rotation) for 30/month or 150 for 7 months.
180 bucks for 7 months of graphical advertising isn't much...all we need is 40 people willing to give up 5 bucks twice a year.
We also need some sort of banner. Since the new logo design contest has ended, I haven't seen any form of one.
And as always...there's my zMUD button code in the clients forum.
Support Your Addiction! Vote for TorilMUD Today!
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
Why Nerox is jealous of me:
Nerox tells you 'man this thing is kicking my ass and i have blisters!'
Nerox tells you 'ok attempting it again put tape on my fingers for easier sliding'
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
Why Nerox is jealous of me:
Nerox tells you 'man this thing is kicking my ass and i have blisters!'
Nerox tells you 'ok attempting it again put tape on my fingers for easier sliding'
Also might be worth seeing how much it costs to place an ad in your old college newspaper. . .College is when I got addicted.
Now somebody go draw a nice logo that will show up in newsprint so I can take my own advice.
Now somebody go draw a nice logo that will show up in newsprint so I can take my own advice.
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
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Hello all, I just tried to copy the signature that a few players are using with the links to the vote sites and it's a pain in the rump to get it just right. So to save you the trouble of doing what I just did, this is the text you want. Enjoy. Oh, and we now have paid advertising space on TopMudSites.
http://www.torilmud.org/areas/signature.txt
http://www.torilmud.org/areas/signature.txt
<b>Support Your Addiction! Vote for TorilMUD Today!
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
The Mud Connector: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/vote_rank.cgi?mud=TorilMud,+the+Sojourner's+Home
MudMagic (aka Kyndig): http://www.mudmagic.com/listings/game/609<b>
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
The Mud Connector: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/vote_rank.cgi?mud=TorilMud,+the+Sojourner's+Home
MudMagic (aka Kyndig): http://www.mudmagic.com/listings/game/609<b>
Nice work on the banner! Now, if you could only make a shameless OOTS-clone flash banner like the other ones..*nod me*.
Joking. :P Great job, glad to see the staff taking a more active role in the voting area again!
Joking. :P Great job, glad to see the staff taking a more active role in the voting area again!
Support Your Addiction! Vote for TorilMUD Today!
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
Why Nerox is jealous of me:
Nerox tells you 'man this thing is kicking my ass and i have blisters!'
Nerox tells you 'ok attempting it again put tape on my fingers for easier sliding'
Top Mud Sites: http://www.topmudsites.com/cgi-bin/topmuds/rankem.cgi?id=shev
Why Nerox is jealous of me:
Nerox tells you 'man this thing is kicking my ass and i have blisters!'
Nerox tells you 'ok attempting it again put tape on my fingers for easier sliding'
Is there any way to track how many hits the banner gets or do we just take a leap of faith and figure it is working?
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
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Now that the fall semester is about to start, it's time to think about recruitment yet again. Many of us started in computer labs on campuses around the world, so I thought why not create a flier we could post to try to lure folks in. I've created the following in 8x10 format, and if anyone wants to post a version here with little tear-offs at the bottom, feel free. The art is copyrighted, but I got permission from the artist to use it (go figure). So, anyone have a burning desire to print/post these around the globe?
Lawsuits
Wouldn't using that flier globally bring in lots of false advertising claims or is there an update you aren't telling us? :P
Ivac ASSOC:: 'man, i'd love to be a woman'
Ivac ASSOC:: 'multiple orgasms'
Ivac ASSOC:: 'multiple orgasms'
Is there anything on the flyer that says it's Tiamat? We have a few hydras in the game that I know of.
Gormal tells you 'im a dwarven onion'
Gormal tells you 'always another beer-soaked layer'
Inama ASSOC:: 'though it may suit your fantasies to think so, i don't need oil for anything.'
Haley: Filthy lucre? I wash that lucre every day until it SHINES!
Gormal tells you 'always another beer-soaked layer'
Inama ASSOC:: 'though it may suit your fantasies to think so, i don't need oil for anything.'
Haley: Filthy lucre? I wash that lucre every day until it SHINES!
If your trying to lure random people to the mud (i.e. those who aren't brought to the mud by friends like most of us were), then you are going to need to give better instructions on how to actually access the mud. Try putting "torilmud.org:9999" in your IE browser and see where it takes you. Don't assume that everyone knows what telnet is.
Corth
Corth
Having said all that, the situation has been handled, so this thread is pretty much at an end. -Kossuth
Goddamned slippery mage.
Goddamned slippery mage.
Monday December 5th, 7:30pm
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You group-say 'so, how did you find this place? :)'
Edzay group-says 'by typing forgotten realms mud on google'
Edzay is a cool guy, we need more Edzay's!
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[18 Enchanter ] Edzay (Drow Elf)
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You group-say 'so, how did you find this place? :)'
Edzay group-says 'by typing forgotten realms mud on google'
Edzay is a cool guy, we need more Edzay's!
Arishae group-says 'mah sunray brings all the boys to the yard'
Shadow Scream
Shadow Scream
Heh, that dude only rolled up on Friday night. Not bad to get 18 levels already.
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
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