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An idea for a contest... your thoughts?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Seth, Jan 30, 2006.

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  1. Seth

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    Hey Everybody!

    We have a great little community going on here, but I know there are a lot of folks out there who need to find us still. There are young people looking for somewhere to go, someone to talk to.

    The best way to get people to know about us is to get other sites to link to http://www.emptyclosets.com. Maybe we could all make a concerted effort to try to find one new website and ask them to put a link back to http://www.emptyclosets.com. Another thing we can all do is try to find a new person on the web that is gay to tell about our community.

    If I tell a friend and they tell a friend and so on... it won't be long until people will know where to come to chat about their life, the problems, their triumphs, their coming out.

    By getting links to Empty Closets we will increase our sites page rank with the top search engine "Google". It will think we are important when it sees all the other sites that link back to us. As our page rank grows then we will appear higher in Google's results. That means that when someone types Gay Teen... they will find help and not some adult porn site. We want to make it easy for young people to find us and getting these links is the best way.

    I was trying to think of places today. Maybe universities with pride groups, pride organizations and event sites, other gay coming out sites. There are even some churches that are accepting and affirming. I'd like your help in putting together a grass-roots campaign to get out the word about our little community.

    To make it more fun I thought we could turn this into a contest. I have put some money aside for an Ipod Nano. This is what I had in mind...

    I thought we could make a thread to report back on where we get links placed to us. For instance, If I write XYZ website and they put a link back, I could reply to this post and say "I got a link to us on http://www.website.com". Also if a new person comes to our community that you reffered they could come into the thread and say "Hey, I'm here because XYZ referred me". We do this for 30 days, 60 days.. whatever you think and then after that time has passed. We do a random drawing from everyone who got a link or referred someone. Whoevers name is drawn gets the Ipod. A twist would be to have an entry per referal so if you get 10 sites to link to here, then you'd have 10 chances at the Nano?

    I think we should try to get sites to link to us for sure and we should tell everyone that could use our community about it. But, what do you think about the contest idea? Anyone interested in that... How do you think it should go if you like the idea?

    Thanks!
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    awesome idea! i think this should be a sticky maybe?
     
  4. Seth

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    Hello NK1114 -- Stuck :slight_smile:
     
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    Love it. It's a great way of encouraging more traffic to the site.
     
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    i think emptyclosets need to add some word.
    for example is like ###- "gay communication".
    emptyclosets can do like that also, for example is : emptyclosets - gay teen communicaiton
    so when we can saw emptyclosets link when we type gay teen in google.

    sorry my english is very poor i hope you can understand:slight_smile:
     
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    Sounds good to me. Anything we can do to promote this site is welcomed.

    Presumably the iPod could be sent to anywhere in the world?
     
  8. Seth

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    Hi, good idea on the Title tags. I'll work on that :slight_smile:

    We should be able to ship anywhere in the world, but some people in some countries do have problems with customs officials and stuff. If the winner knows they might have a problem, we could paypal funds or do a wire or something so that they would be certain to get the proceeds.

    Should we just use this thread to house the contest. We can just start posting right in this thread how its going and collect the entries or should we start a new one?
     
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    Ok, I will try it, though I don't really surf that much... I use internet mainly for technical forums... so... getting a link to this site is not going to be easy... And please, by all means, don't give me an iPod... I hate those!!
     
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    Ok... we have one entry. Thanks Paul. Come on guys... let's give him some competition!
     
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