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Advertising For Your Mmorpg Guild

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Guild recruiters cannot be shy. Post in recruiting forums, erect a guild Web site, use in game recruiting tools, such as those in EQ2, these activities all promote your guild and you probably should avail yourself of them. However the fastest, cheapest, easiest most effective way to get new members for your guild is to simply ask in a general chat channel.

Before You Hit the Chat Channels You Need to Know…

…what benefit people will receive by joining your guild and at what cost? Do you provide help with grouping? Do you help people level? Are you a PvP guild? If so what kind of PvP guild? If you provide groups for members is joining guild groups required? If you help people level, is helping other members required? If you are an MMORPG PvP guild, does this mean you don’t do content or that you do organized battlegrounds?

Once you know the major benefit of joining your guild, create your message around that. Know the cost however, because you’ll need new members to understand that if you want to retain themmore about that in my next article for PlayerVox.

To construct your message take the big focus on your major benefit and combine it with one of two possible actions you want the interested party to take:

1. PST for membership info. Contact you immediately in (PST for Please Send Tell is fairly universal).

Be prepared to answer questions and potentially talk to multiple people at the same time. I like to either use a text file to cut and paste common answers, or setup macros when available.

2. URL. Save yourself a lot of typing by sending people to a special recruiting page setup in advance. Lazy people won’t take the time to go look however, so if you are zerg recruiting, don’t use this method. Using a Web page is ideal if there is a lot of information for potential members to consider.

* Present your guild as active and up-to-date. Do NOT send potentials to your inactive guild forums or glommed together site for info. Instead create a special page just for potential new recruits.

* Get the easiest URL possible. Example: “s1.guildcafe.com” is the domain name I use for the Section One guild.

* Always use the http:// so that people understand it is a web site you want them to look at.

Recruiting Message Samples

Helper PvE guild:

Learn the ropes and level fast with XYZ guild. PST for membership info.

Guild with funny people:

Laugh your way to level 50 with XYZ guild. Casual players welcome. PST for membership info.

Guild with serious PvErs:

XYZ guild seeks pro-PvE members. Do dungeons right with us. Ventrilo required. PST for membership info.

End game looters:

The PvE veterans of XYZ raid guild LFM for teamwork and achieving long term goals. http://www.blahblah.com

Adult social guild:

Like to play and chat? Join the lively world of XYZ guild on Ventrilo. http://www.blahblah.com Not kid friendly.

Crafting guild:

Attention crafters: Join with other crafters in XYZ guild to build an economic powerhouse and rule the server. PST for more info.

Player-killing guild:

Join for the Rep. Stay for the people who’d rather fight than switch. RPK all the way. PST for membership info.

Advertise, but don’t spam

Some old fashioned net-etiquette should be employed while advertising in chat channels:

* Use appropriate channels. Find out what channels are acceptable for guild recruiting. It’s different in every game. For instance, in Guild Wars, one uses the all channel. In some MMORPGs the regional chat channels are acceptable. Some games have special recruiting channels.

* Keep it short and sweet. Don’t attempt to explain every membership detail in your message. Things scroll away fast and people don’t have time to deal with long textheck, they don’t even read quest descriptions most of the time! More on this later.

* Don’t spam. The reason you repeat your message is to give busy people another chance to read it as well present yourself to new people who haven’t seen it. It is not to bore and aggravate people with your endless droning of e-garbage.

o How often you repeat your message is game dependent. In games like WoW, EQ2 and Vanguard, the number of new people coming into and going out of a channel is small, so repeat sparingly. Observe how frequently others repeat and repeat less than they do. If you get complaints, reduce your frequency even more. Being perceived as spam will get you on people’s ignore-list.

o In Guild Wars where people hop in and out of districts constantly, your best bet is to move around from place to place, repeat your message once per district then move on, repeating your cycle every five minutes or so.

* Change it up. Vary your message from time to time, test new messages, be clever, entertain. Boring messages equates to a boring guild.

Advertise eloquently…

…or at least avoid looking stupid:

* DON’T USE ALL CAPS.

* Do not load up your message with **l337** symbols and other #$%^& crap. Your potential recruits don’t have time or desire to decipher, so just use plain English.

* Stay away from over-used terms so ubiquitous that they are now meaningless. Ever seen anyone advertising for unfriendly, immature and inactive members? Almost all guilds are friendly, mature and active, so don’t use up precious space talking about it.

* Use goood speeling. You may not care about every day chat spelling and grammar, but nothing makes you look more like a stupid n00b than spamming the same error over and over. Check it first then store it in a macro or text file.

People want to join guilds that are active. They like to be able to login and find things are happening. One of the best things to do recruiting-wise is put together PUGs, then pitch guild membership to the better players.

You can take this idea a step further by organizing server events and advertising them in spam. Depending on how much creativity the game supports you can do a lot. Character weddings, PvP king of the hill events, PvP tournaments, PvE and PvP raids, crafting fairs, scavenger hunts, races and costume contests are all popular.

Worst Guild Recruiting Spam Ever

XYZ GUILD RECUTING friendly active players. All levels, races, classses and ages. Mature PvE and PvP. Have hall and cape. –

This is a pretty typical zerg guild spamhard to read, packed full of errors and easy to ignore. It attempts to attract people by sounding friendly, but undermines itself by trying to be all things to all peoplewhich equates to nothing for nobody. If you want to offer zillions of players a temporary spot in your revolving door clan, use this ad. (The have hall and cape is a Guild Wars thing. Since every guild has those, it amazes me that people even mention it. If they advertised a guild hall with all perks or silver cape that would be different.)

XYZ guild looking for members. 50 gold paid on joining.

Why not just say, attention leeches, come get 50gp then leave me for another guild If you are this desperate for members, consider calling it quits and joining an established guild.

UberAwesome guild looking for members. Raiding right now, come get your endgame loot!

This ad isn’t much better than the previous one. It’s just another opportunity for people to leech off your generosity. Inviting people to join your raids is a good way to impress people, but it’s best to keep those opportunities and your recruiting separate.

Conclusion

Don’t be shy! Speak up and use chat to let people know that you’re out there. Be wise with your messages, don’t abuse it, and you’ll be rewarded with plenty of interest.

Youtube Seo Strategy For Business Sectors

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There had been much discussion on the ways and the strategies to optimise the videos for the YouTube channels. The strategy and the formulation adopted by the experts to optimise the YouTube in the best way possible. Its a proven and tested formula, by optimising the videos on the YouTube; it enhances the chances of being shown up on the organic Google search results. I would like to point out here more importantly; the role of Google here is just to drive the very specific video-based search result directly to the YouTube and not to the corporate websites or one can say in a way crisp, directly to a companys landing page.

Lets discuss or rather give a thought on the specific clever ways by which the corporate can easily get the visitors directly to the companys landing pages.

You are Profile on YouTube

Your SEO-setup to achieve that promising optimization of the videos for particularly your corporate website, any bidding advertiser can ensure that well aimed strategy and planning, by making it sure without any fail to incorporate the companys URL in their particular YouTube profile section.

SEO targeted keywords in the Title

By including, the particular targeted SEO keywords; in the videos is another important part of that well envisioned strategy and planning of the SEO for benefitting from the YouTube videos.

Focus on the Description

SEO has to be very particular about the kind and the quality of the video description. Its usually been kept short and crisp within the range of 27 characters. Be sure that you add your companys URL in the very first part of your description. One can include their marketing program link as well. The description will be an excellent carrier of the visitors to your corporate website, if you are certainly including the follow me links directing to the blog section and the twitter account.

Be categorically specific

Yes of course, the category that you are choosing that one category that will allow your corporate video to be well fitted to turn the tables around. There have been a limited category options available on the YouTube. One smart act you can certainly do is to keep a check on what your competitors are doing. You can certainly consider the categories that your competitor has selected.

That best appealing Video Thumbnail for your corporate video.

We know that mostly YouTube users stay limited towards the selection of the video thumbnail images. You make it sure that you chose the one of the most appealing and the best image which inculcates the corporate logo.

Tags, be limited.

Tags are undoubtedly important for making your corporate video in a way more chances of being found. I am talking about the specific point that you should have been using the minimum of only almost 10 descriptive tags for your video each. You should have multi-word tags as just one word tag, which is always a better strategy as per the latest web analytics. Minimum of the 10 descriptive tags for each video is what you need to do. Web-Analytics have been in much favor to this point. You can also mirror the tags with the specific word order on YouTube.

Tagging for the Locations

I will put it straight; tagging the location once your corporate video is uploaded is another master stroke for the SEO. This will help your corporate video well streamlined with the Google Maps and the specific Google places. Yes, top of the all, your Corporate YouTube video will be right there on the Google Earth searches.

Captions & Subtitles to get that linked text.

Lets talk about the importance of the captions which are any time important, if you upload the closed caption texts and the specific subtitles as the texts are searchable. The very of auto transcription has never been accurate. A closed caption text being selected for the videos is always a good option. SEO dont necessarily have to get each and every word matched with the video, the additional target keywords specifically in the closed captions works wonder. You better be using the words like its or our addressing the companys brand and the name.

Thumbs up from the Subscribers / Community

When you get the comments and the thumbs-up from the specific group of the subscribers and the people well targeted, is another well laid planning for your specific Digital marketing campaigns. It is going to give great thumbs up for the search ranking for the corporate videos in the YouTube. You should have to be careful in identifying the relevant subscribers, to be following your corporate video on the YouTube.

Pay Per Click Advertising For Get A More Traffic Via Google Search Engine

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On internet today everything is possible like shopping, Booking tickets, and sending money even earning some bucks. The earning can be done by various methods like Advertising, Free lancing, Payment Portals, Accounting services and many more.

Pay per click comes under the category of advertising as many of the websites especially E-commerce market is stressing on traffic direction to their website for increasing their sales and Revenue, hence advertising helps them to do that by means of PPC they can achieve their motive also benefiting the Advertiser by paying some commission percent to them which becomes a win-win situation for the advertiser and the client.

Pay per click basically pays the advertiser an amount of money on every click also they divert traffic to the desired path registered on that click, these clicks are basically in the form of ads on the websites and leads to another website, the ads are in form of Banners and different buttons present on another website, the pay per click is attained by Google or different famous companies like Yahoo ads and others. Advantages of this type of advertising are that it gives the advertiser benefit as well as the client which makes this strategy successful.

Pay per click has another same functionality module provided by e-commerce for blog writers and different websites which is known as AFFILIATE. Affiliate is nothing but a e-commerce provides its price listing to another website for displaying on their space and if a person is redirecting from there to the target affiliate page the person hosting the affiliate link will get the commission and get paid if the person buys/ Trades from the targeted website.

Many companies like Ebay , Amazon and other famous e-commerce has started the affiliate program and exercising this successfully. The affiliate comes in many forms like banners like ads, Buttons and other links, When a person clicking on any of these is redirect to the path of the affiliate site and an unique ID is binded in the URL which helps the affiliate website decide that the purchase has done form which path by tracing the unique ID from the URL they pay the respective affiliated website, The payment is in the form of E-vouchers which helps one to buy online without paying and other form of payment is the normal net banking and E-wire transfer , the money is transferred to the account which has affiliated.