Vote For My Page By Clicking Here

By Andy Diehl

There are many ways to advertise a web site. Some work and some don't. Something I have seen in the past may gain hits, but lose return hits.
Almost everyone has seen the top 20 site lists. They work very simply. You go to a web site and check, if you feel it is a good site you click on a banner that votes for that site. Or at least it should be that way. I am on the lookout for new sites all the time. Awhile back I visited a web site entitled Dragonball Hell. I thought I would give it a look. Eagerly I clicked on a link to that site. A box popped up that said "Vote for me or you will burn in hell". I had not seen the site yet so I felt I could not vote on it at that time. I clicked no and got a message that resembled the following "Well I guess your not in hell". Then I was forced to vote numerous times for that site. I then saw on the opening screen that this guy was in at least five top site clubs.

    New sites have no respect, they feel the only way to obtain hits is to trick people and not to have new and original information. Or is that it, are people looking too much for popularity and not self-satisfaction. A DBZ/Anime site is made for your own self-satisfaction and/or to inform and educate others. If you look at the top sites of today like Planet Namek, VeggetoEX's page, SREDBZ's page, Greg Werner's site, Castor Troy's, Skitz's or ToT you would never see a top sites banner. That is because they make their sites to inform and for the pure love of Dragonball. All right so you may say "Well look how popular those sites are they don't need that type of advertising". Well they were not always popular, do you think there first day of being open they got their 200 to 500 hits. No that is ridiculous. They knew that they needed the original material or that one idea that no one else had. If you ever go to the sites on a top site list most of them are probably bootleggers who have stolen, slightly altered, or have un original material.

    You have to look at it this way. Now you have a site that is very un original, but is on a top site list. He has a million pop ups so he gains many hits with each visitor. He builds himself up to number one on the list. He thinks he is on the top. Now that he is number one he gets more hits, the word spreads about his site. One of the top DBZ web master's or a protection group (such as Majin.net was) sees all the stolen stuff on his site. He gets blacklisted and reported to all the top sites. That may bring you hits, but not because of your content, but to see all the stolen material you have. Yes I have gotten off the topic of strictly top site lists, but that is what happens when you write about something you believe in.
So basically I do not put down all top site list's, but there are to many out there with people trying to get to the top the wrong way.