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Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:10 pm
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This ties into the two threads by yaaahoooo on GM stats and pay to click ads really.

It was mentioned about FB ads, and google search paid ways to try and increase hits. But of course they require money, and could be tricky in terms of us not being the owner.

So, having done some thinking and a bit of research here are my idea's of what players can do to try and help GM to grow, without spending a single penny (or dollar Very Happy ).

Also, having been checking up on stats and reading stuff on how search engines, in particular tend to work out their page rank, there is a lot to do with links. Links going to the website (we can change), links going out from the website (this we can't do much about). Apparently the more well known reputable sites carry the biggest weight.

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Also, on search engine traffic for keywords exact match "monopoly online" our competitor (can't state who for obvious reasons) but is top of the search engine search has 60.36% of the traffic off that search term. It only shows the top 5, we do not get in the top 5. The site at place 5 gets 3.01% of the traffic off the "monopoly online" search engine term.
76.43% of the traffic to galacticmag.com comes from google search engine.


So basically if we got MAX 3% of traffic off search term "monopoly online" and we get 76% of OUR new users from the google search engine. This is a huge thing. We need to increase our traffic off the search, only way to do that is to push the site up the page rank list. But this is not easy to do.

PLUS please bare in mind google etc only update their ranking order approx every 3 months. So if it did help the page rank search may not be apparent for some time.


Please add any idea's you may have also.

Lets also not make this thread into a argument over mods and their work. Keep it aimed to get more NEW players, who in turn will become regular GM users.

List of idea's

1) Make a mini movie like Jarod once did to be posted on vid sites around the net: youtube, ehow etc

Now this could actually be a really important one. I have discovered that on yahoo search for "play monopoly online" no.5 in the rank is a link to ehow for the "rival" site. So affectively using ehow's ranking to bounce the vid into a search for monopoly. We are around no.29 (p3) on this search. So we might effectively get ourselves pushed higher by using another sites search position to bounce off.

2) Wikipedia, and similar online sites article. According to a search on there, there is currently no info on GM. So again, another well known reputable site to bounce off.

3) Yahoo answers (and/or similar sites) - There are numerous questions submitted to these answer sites. If we went round answering the questions about monopoly, where to play online, monopoly variants etc. There is a bit at the bottom when you submit for "What's your source?
Share the sites you referenced in your research and give credit."

If need be we could always make the questions our selves, and have others here answer Evil or Very Mad . (but not to be over done lol)

Again this bouncing off reputable well known website.

4) Blogging sites - Anyone up for the challenge of blogging about GM (don't know much about this one, but it sounds good for again well known sites lol)

5) Banner link - Is it possible to some how create a banner for GM to be used to post around any website?

I'll add more if I remember any, or think of more ideas. Please add any other ideas.
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Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:09 pm
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Excellent work Trace! I bet everyone who want to help GM grow will help.

Let me add one more idea: Copy paste GM site link http://www.galacticmag.com/ at your personal message on msn, yahoo or any other messenger.
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Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:22 pm
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Have made a start adding us to wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Online_Variants
Am trying to work on creating a whole page for GM, only it says there was one but got deleted by their admins for being spam lol 3 years ago.

New page added Very Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_magnate
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:35 am
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trace567 wrote:
Have made a start adding us to wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Online_Variants
Am trying to work on creating a whole page for GM, only it says there was one but got deleted by their admins for being spam lol 3 years ago.

New page added Very Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_magnate


That's awesome trace! I hope they keep this page. I made one back last spring, but it was rejected with a stated reason that the game did not have a substantial enough amount of players.

I think a wiki page will help us get some more players Smile
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:13 am
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Wiki page was brilliant idea as well as the others! I'm definitely going to be busy around the web for some time. Cool

Also including the GM Facebook group as a link on other sites can be kept in mind. Very Happy
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:38 am
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trace567 wrote:
Have made a start adding us to wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Online_Variants
Am trying to work on creating a whole page for GM, only it says there was one but got deleted by their admins for being spam lol 3 years ago.

New page added Very Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_magnate



very niiice Cool
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:48 am
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this is the best thing some1 has done to promote gm
cheers tracerrrrrrrrrrr Razz
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Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:06 pm
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palabra wrote:
trace567 wrote:
Have made a start adding us to wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Online_Variants
Am trying to work on creating a whole page for GM, only it says there was one but got deleted by their admins for being spam lol 3 years ago.

New page added Very Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_magnate


That's awesome trace! I hope they keep this page. I made one back last spring, but it was rejected with a stated reason that the game did not have a substantial enough amount of players.

I think a wiki page will help us get some more players Smile


Well fingers crossed they keep it there for at least a couple weeks Laughing
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