#8 Stevenp | 2007-05-16 18:13
Thanks Bob and SysOp - I've recorded your incoming hits from that testing blog. Unfortunately the test failed because the hits are reported coming from http://mantra7777test.blogspot.com/ period. I was hoping the modified URL (with the question mark) would show up somehow.
Ok here's a tough one for you SysOp (because if you can't answer it no one can). Please read the scenario below - I'd appreciate your thoughts on the parts marked *magic*.
Scenario -
The landing page is: http://whitakeronline.org/
There are two activists: A1 and A2.
Each activist has their own unique URL to send traffic to:
A1 uses http://whitakeronline.org/?A1
A2 uses http://whitakeronline.org/?A2
A1 goes to forum.com and posts the mantra. At the end of the mantra he adds the link http://whitakeronline.org/<b>?A1</b>
Fifty people read the mantra and five become curious enough to click A1's link so whitakeronline.org's tracker records five contacts coming from forum.com.
In addition, something *magically* records the fact that the link being used is http://whitakeronline.org/<b>?A1</b> instead of plain http://whitakeronline.org/
A2 goes to forum.com and sees the mantra. He can't repost it right away or he'll get banned for spamming. So he adds a comment to bump the mantra while using the riddle as his sigline. At the end of the riddle he adds: Answer at http://whitakeronline.org/<b>?A2</b>
Twenty people read the riddle and two become curious enough to click A2's link so whitakeronline.org's tracker records two more contacts coming from the same page at forum.com.
At this point the tracker reports a total of seven visitors from the same page at forum.com while something *magically* informs us that five used A1's link while two used A2's.
An hour later A1 goes to this *magical* webpage and sees that 5 more visitors have come from links with his name after the ? (http://whitakeronline.org/<b>?A1</b>) and that therefore his total activism score has increased by 5 points. Motivated by the rising score he goes out looking for more places to post.
End of scenario.
SysOp please tell me there is a tracker or php module out there that can pull this magic. If there is, we can cut out the activism platform altogether and transfer all the techie complexity from the activist onto a single onsite tracker/module (preferably with public *magic* data).
If this is possible, the landing page (activism handbook) can then be hypercompressed into a simple appeal to help the activism effort by posting mantra or riddle using
http://whitakeronline.org/?YOURNAMEHERE as the forwarding link. That's it. OK maybe an explanation on creating html links in posts would be needed too, but that's just a sentence at most:
<a href="http://whitakeronline.org/?YOURNAMEHERE">click here</a>
Anyway, I've modified the testing blog (http://mantra7777test.blogspot.com/) so that it now contains four of these theoretical activism links pointing to http://whitakeronline.org/. We can use that for testing.
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To anyone reading this who is wondering what the heck we're doing, the answer is we're developing an activism model. The point of this model would be to motivate activists into posting in order to bring in traffic that is converted into more activists. All the while exposing people to the mantra. This would effectively pour chain letter exponential growth, i.e. kerosene, onto the fire Bob keeps talking about.
If we can get this working here, I'll set some sticks alight and run with them to http://majorityrights.com. They're a very big blog (71,586 unique visitors for april) and I'm confident they'll adopt this model IF - and only IF - I can show them it works. They'd then use it to foster their own activism and attract more readership. All the while spreading the mantra far and wide.
If it works for a big blog like http://majorityrights.com it'll be a sure sell to other pro-white blogs/forums. They're all welcome to encourage the activism-oriented among their readership to push the mantra if it gains them traffic.
In short, the potential blaze is so huge it's worth trying again and again and again until we develop the right kerosene formula.