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Jun 10, 09 12:42PMkevcothirtythree

Hi,

I've spent some time looking over the Webmaster page and have a few questions.

Firstly, how does having inbound traffic increase your chances of getting on the "top news" bit? Does it give you an automatic "rate" or something everytime a set number ofpeople come through?

Sceondly, I don't know anything about webcode. Would this need to be on every page of the site or could it be in one fixed position like on amenu? Or could I maybe put it on a forum post as a link to the gamegrep article? Or maybe even in a comments box?

I'll probably have more questions after I get answers to these! Thanks in advance!

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Jun 12, 09 08:56AMtekmosis

This page should help explain it better:
http://www.gamegrep.com/activity.php

Just because an article doesn't have any comments doesn't mean it isn't popular for the lurkers (:

Jun 11, 09 01:02PMchautemoc

Yeah, there's been some weirdness around here lately...the current top stories, rated at 534 and 138, have no comments. They're both from the same source and they don't link to us...

Jun 11, 09 12:58AMPacoDG

I am kind of curious as to how this works as well. Because how does something like this happen:

It is just weird, within 2 and a half hours a story is already hit up to 126, no comments, it is 4:51am (est). I like AnalogHype and all (not so much the other sites, but always loved AH), just seems odd though.

Jun 10, 09 12:54PMKrunal

I'll answer those I can:

quote kevcothirtythree
Firstly, how does having inbound traffic increase your chances of getting on the "top news" bit? Does it give you an automatic "rate" or something everytime a set number ofpeople come through?

Everytime someone from your websites comes to GameGrep, it adds to the 'viewed' count which, if they're a member of GameGrep also increases the Rate. But even then, the more views the article gets, the more rates it increases by. I wont tell you how many views of an article is required to actually count as a rate increase, but the more views (even if it hasn't been rated) will mean more rates for the article, simply because people have been interested enough to visit the article.

This is the reason as to why we ask that you add good quality descriptions, becuase, and I can tell you this from experiance, the better the DESCRIPTION (and I don't mean quote, but description), the more chances are that people will view the article on GameGrep, and personally, if I think the description is good enough (as well as the news), I will automatically rate it, and visit the source to get the full low-down.

Now, as far as the question goes, the more people that visit gamegrep from your website, the higher the rating of the article becomes, the more chance GameGrep visitors click on the link to the article from the right hand side and visit the source (i.e. your website).

So it's very much a you bring traffic to us, and we'll bring traffic to you