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June 10, 2008 at 2:35 PM
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Michael
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Forum signatures are always a good way to advertise. I think I already have a link in my signature on Newgrounds.
 
 
June 13, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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Justin
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BlueShizz said:
I think a great way to promote the site is just by simply adding the site to our forum signatures in all of the forums that we've posted in on other sites. Although it may not bring in a lot of traffic, I've read somewhere that it will greatly increase something called the Google PageRank, which is an algorithm that determines where a site will come up on Google's, as well as other search engines, search results.

It basically works like this: the more links there are to a site, the greater the PageRank is, and if there are forums where some of us may have around 1,000 posts (I know that I do), so that means there are 1,000 different links coming in, which will cause the PageRank of the site to increase significantly.

And all you have to do, is simply put a link in your signature saying "Papertank: The Ultimate Source For Writers" or something of the like.

Just a thought, what do you guys think?

Wow, somebody did their homework! But in all seriousness, that was the single best way we got traffic on TSS, so it should definitely work on here.
 
 
June 20, 2008 at 11:20 PM
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Flragnararch
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Word of mouth is the best form of advertisement. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. Best of all its free.
 
June 20, 2008 at 11:39 PM
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Justin
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Flragnararch said:
Word of mouth is the best form of advertisement. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. Best of all its free.

Agreed.
 
 
June 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM
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blamninja1
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We could just get one of our articles on the front page of fark.com. Simple enough, right?
 
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June 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM
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Manman
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blamninja1 said:
We could just get one of our articles on the front page of fark.com. Simple enough, right?


Lawl
 
June 22, 2008 at 2:00 AM
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Justin
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Don't be afraid to advertise you're own articles on sites such as Digg. It not only helps us, but definitely helps you as well.
 
 
June 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM
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blamninja1 said:
We could just get one of our articles on the front page of fark.com. Simple enough, right?


Probably would never hit Fark but some of the other ones have a chance like Shoutwire.

I hit up Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Pownce and Facebook to promote the site today.
 
June 23, 2008 at 11:24 AM
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Justin
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Awesome, we appreciate it.
 
 
July 17, 2008 at 5:53 PM
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Michael
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Hey guys. If you're looking to promote the site by linking in forum signatures, here's a simple image you can use. The size is 599x50, perfect for signature pictures on the Newgrounds BBS. Feel free to change the quote on the right to something more clever.



And here's the same thing inverted. Without Photoshop or any other proper image-editing software, it's the best I can do for a dark-background version.



If you don't post on any forums that allow images in signatures, you could still use the image to promote the website on your own website or blog. As for my unauthorized use of the site's copyrighted logo in this image, I'm sure the admins won't mind.

EDIT (8/9/08): Now that the site has been updated, the forum seems to be cutting off the right-side of the images because it's too wide, but if you right-click and save, you should get the whole file.
 
 
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