How does pimpmyspace.org get 1500 users on at a time - story?

[rob]

1355 right now, earliar it was 1526 users, and around 950 at 1pm..

The site is so simple and clean, hardly any advertisements or link exchanges.. and even has little content compared to other sites.

How's it get so much traffic? Was it one of the first MySpace resource sites? Even if it was I would think people who see other sites with more content and it would eventually die..

[Selena]

wouldnt know really.
good advertising/link exchanges, easy name, and its number one on the myspace topsites, so those who bookmark the topsites will see pimpmyspace on the number one spot and click it, and those who click on myspace topsites from other sites, see pimpmyspace as number 1 and automatically visit.

i've seen pimpmyspace.org advertised on a lot of big sites, though not a huge amount of other sites.

[alexisthemovie]

easy...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=myspace&btnG=Google+Search

[PGZ]

Just cause the counter says that doesnt mean there are really that many people online. It can be set to say whatever they want it to say. It will change just as if people are coming and going but in reality its up to them to what it says and does.

[DLGx]

Once you reach a point in traffic with these type of sites you don't need link exchanges and such. Traffic just keeps coming in via top site listings, search engines etc. Doesn't matter if your site blows compared to others.

Many very high traffic myspace resource sites are not very good at all, some are downright garbage with very little content and half of it being broken. As long as traffic keeps coming in it doesn't matter, visitors will leave the site via some topsite link or an advertisement and the site owner wins.

[Dean]

I think alexis answered this best :)

No. 3 for myspace = Tons of visits.

Dean

[Ted Hat]

At this posint it would be impossible to rank in the top 5 for myspace in google. All the top spots have been claimed. if you look at the top 10 seprs for 'myspace' and 'myspace layouts' it has remained the same for the past 5 months. Sucks but nothing you can do about it.

[Scilynt]

At this posint it would be impossible to rank in the top 5 for myspace in google. All the top spots have been claimed. if you look at the top 10 seprs for 'myspace' and 'myspace layouts' it has remained the same for the past 5 months. Sucks but nothing you can do about it.I still think that with a strong enough site and enough work you could take one of the top 10. I mean we know at least one member here that got to 13-14 in less than 6 months. Who knows where he may be in another 6 months...

I've mentioned it before but I still think going niche is a graet way to do it. Partly because there is less competition and partly because you can get highly targeted users that way.

For example, I was able to take #1 for a pretty commong search term (1,890,000 in google)in only a few month. No idea if it will stick but I was pretty proud and when it comes down to it, wasn't too much work when targeting a specific niche. That site is geared towards that niche so that helps but I assume working various niche search terms into a more general site would work close to as well. Especially considering I have seen the same sites in a lot of different niches.

[Ted Hat]

maybe a couple inbound Pr 8 links will get you in the top 5 for those competitive keywords but I don't want to spend the $5,000+ for a 6 month link campaign to find out if it works or not.

also keep in mind that new sites tend to be given good rankings for about a month and then collapse in the serps once the sandbox kicks in.

[steveAR]

hard work is what gets you there.

[Cyclops]

My PR6 MSRS site is still struggling ....... and the sandbox is a myth.

[Kyle]

Just cause the counter says that doesnt mean there are really that many people online. It can be set to say whatever they want it to say. It will change just as if people are coming and going but in reality its up to them to what it says and does.

cmon they are #3 for "myspace' that traffic is real

[alexisthemovie]

maybe a couple inbound Pr 8 links will get you in the top 5 for those competitive keywords but I don't want to spend the $5,000+ for a 6 month link campaign to find out if it works or not.

also keep in mind that new sites tend to be given good rankings for about a month and then collapse in the serps once the sandbox kicks in.

A couple of pr8 links wont do **** for a myspace site. In this niche, its all about quantity. And Cyclops, what makes you think the sandbox is a myth?

[Ted Hat]

A couple of pr8 links wont do **** for a myspace site. In this niche, its all about quantity. And Cyclops, what makes you think the sandbox is a myth?

Aren't you a little young to be using the 4 letter cuss words? Anyway, if you do a google search for 'myspace layouts' you will see the top 10 results have PR 6 with maybe a Pr5 and the 11-20 have PR5-6. Quality is relative and some of t he sites in the first page have crappy content.

[alexisthemovie]

Aren't you a little young to be using the 4 letter cuss words? Anyway, if you do a google search for 'myspace layouts' you will see the top 10 results have PR 6 with maybe a Pr5 and the 11-20 have PR5-6. Quality is relative and some of t he sites in the first page have crappy content.

I don't think you understood what I said. I could push one of my PR7 domains religiously for that keyword, even buying a few PR7-PR8 links along the way; but it will never make the front page because those guys have such a huge headstart. And I can guarantee you that they aren't there because of high PR links. It's all down to having hundreds of thousands of backlinks. (mostly myspace profiles with 0 PR)

[Ted Hat]

PR is is Pr regardless if it comes from 1000's of Pr0's or a couple PR 8's.

[alexisthemovie]

wow... can you not understand english?

[Ted Hat]

wow... can you not understand english?

Tough guy with the flames. When your Yahoo publisher account gets terminated i'll have the last laugh...you're not even 18 (which is the minimum age to have a publisher account)

[Helios]

Hey, no fighting! The PR for front page is relative Ted Hat - its not quite as simple as you make it seem.

The truth is, any one of us could pass someone like freeweblayouts in serps if we really wanted to...even with their 3 mil ++ backlinks.

[alexisthemovie]

Tough guy with the flames. When your Yahoo publisher account gets terminated i'll have the last laugh...you're not even 18 (which is the minimum age to have a publisher account)

it's called a business account...stop diverting.

[Ted Hat]

it's called a business account...stop diverting.

Um your myspace resource site is in violation of the YPN TOS regarding pictures. I suggest you fix it soon.

[DavidR]

Um your myspace resource site is in violation of the YPN TOS regarding pictures. I suggest you fix it soon.

I hope he sees an increase in click rate/income now he has removed the images, which has happened before - with Adsense, but still... Then he gets the last laugh.

Edit: Dunno if I mentioned this but for a day or two I tried images by my ads and the click rate dropped quite a bit. I think ads by images don't work too well unless your site is specific to one thing.

Example: A website on Ferrari cars... if you put images of Ferrari cars by the ads, people will look - as everyone on the site is intrested in Ferrari cars. A website though on MySpace... people are there for MySpace stuff so if a site has a Homer Simpsons picture by the ads, the viewer may not like The Simpsons, so they'll take no notice of the ad, even if the text for the ad might be of interest to them (they won't look). Obviously a MySpace site can put MySpace related images by it's ads, but still it's a broad area and not as recognisable or interesting to the user.

The broader the topic/images you display the less liekly you are to get a click, because just as the images can attract people to the ads... they can also turn people off them. In my opinion, more likely to turn people off them as it's harder to display an image someone will like than it is something they do.

Having said that, that applies to Adsense, Yahoo! doesn't display properly targeted ads, so (very few) no-one will be interested in the ads anyway as what kids want loans or Large Mens Clothing? So images by ads may improve Yahoo! ads click rate if by the off chance you randomly display something they are interested in as the 'ad image'.

I don't know if I just argued agasint my own point? Anyway, they are my opinions on images by ads and their efficientcy.

[idzone]

Pimpmyspace, i guess is among the first ones. Even after getting so much traffic, why is he not updating is the big question. He could easily double his value if better content is offered. It could be a she too, I am not sure :-)