By high demand, I shall outline for everyone the difference
between SPAM vs PROMOTING / MARKETING in a manner that should follow Yuwie’s
TOS (Terms of Service). If I miss anything, or my information is incorrect, please send me a message and let me know. Also, do NOT copy / paste this entire blog into your own as I have worked very hard on this. Please copy the blog address and paste that in a blog of your own if you wish so that people will come here to my blog to read this. Thanks.
Before I get into the nitty gritty, let me outline some
terms that will be used in the explanations:
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UNSOLICITED: means that the
Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent.
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BULK: means that the message is
sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively
identical content.
*** A message and/or email is only SPAM if
it is both Unsolicited and Bulk. ***
An electronic message is also considered SPAM if the
recipient’s personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is
equally applicable to many other potential recipients.
SPAM is an issue about consent, not content…and whether the
sender has any consideration or care for the recipient or not. If not, then it is SPAM.
*** Now for how to
PROMOTE / MARKET without being a SPAMMER! ***
If you want people to check out your sweet and nifty links
to other sites (whether they are money making sites or not) the best way is
to: Strike up a conversation with the
person. Talk about whatever they want to
talk about, normal stuff. Gradually
bring in and hint at your site without really mentioning it. Make the person want to know more and ask to
know more! When they do, give them a
little more information…and they’ll ask to hear more again. Now you can send them the information in the
message or direct them to a blog about what you were talking about. This is not considered Spam now because the
person opted to know more information and requested it! See the difference?
That being said, Yuwie does not mind if you post links on the notice board to promote and get people to check out your blogs, clubs, pictures, etc as this
is traffic contained within Yuwie and more ads are displayed the more you use
the site. What Yuwie minds is when you
start promoting and spamming links to sites outside and not affiliated with
Yuwie! This is a breach of the TOS as
laid out by Yuwie below:
*** Yuwie’s TOS (Terms of Service) on Spam ***
13. Content/Activity Prohibited. The following is a
partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or
through the Yuwie Services. Yuwie.com reserves the right to investigate and
take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Yuwie.com's sole
discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the
offending communication from the Yuwie Services and terminating the Membership of
such violators. If your account is banned or deleted because of policy
violations including, but not limited to those listed in these terms, you will
forfeit all referrals, all past, present, and future earnings. Prohibited
Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of
Yuwie.com:
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12. involves the
transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or
unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or
"spamming";
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30. displaying an
advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a
third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or
through the Yuwie Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial
content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose,
selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8"
friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose;
If you want to promote things you do on Yuwie (blogs, pics,
clubs, etc) then sending messages and invites are fine. Realize though that by not giving the link directly, say…to your blog, you force the
person to go to your profile first, then your blog (2 page views) as opposed to
straight to your blog (1 page view). When posting things to the Notice Boards you can only put links in the notices if it is a Yuwie Link (to a blog, club, person, etc). But if you don't include the link (as mentioned above) you will get more page views as they come to your profile to get to what they want to read or see. Just tell your friends (the ones who will see
the notice) the purpose of the notice and leave it at that. If you posted a new blog, say “hey, I posted
a new blog “XYZ” and its about ‘such and such,’ you might find it interesting.”
Leave it at that. If your friend is
interested, they’ll go to your profile and to the blog and read it.
If however you want to promote non-Yuwie related
links/sites, KEEP THEM OFF OF THE NOTICE BOARD!! By non-Yuwie related, I am talking about all
other money making sites, personal websites, etc. If you want to post this stuff somewhere, the
safest place is in a blog. Again, do not
advertise/spam this blog as it is a breach of the TOS laid out by Yuwie. Bring people to your profile based on other
blogs, pics, etc and people will run across your other blogs with non-Yuwie
related content. If you have traffic
exchanges that you use and wish to share with other Yuwians, you can post those
in blogs as well, and you can advertise this blog on the Notice Board IF AND
ONLY IF the traffic exchange is FREE and DOES NOT PROMISE TO PAY YOU MONEY
EARNED IN ANY MANNER. An example of this
is TrafficSwarm (I have a blog on this as well) which is completely free. You
click through text ads to earn credits so that others can view and click on the ads you post
(which would be your Referral URL) and you can get more Referrals this
way. See, it helps Yuwie, doesn’t
compete, therefore TrafficSwarm is considered non-Yuwie but non-threatening and
therefore allowed on Yuwie. As far as "please add my referrals" I might consider that spam as it can be sent in bulk, is not personalized, and was not requested. There is an easy work around for this though. Instead of sending the links in the message right off the bat, I would say send a preliminary message first asking if they would mind adding your referrals if you were to send them the links in a message. Then those that respond to your message with a positive answer you could then send them the links as they would have opted to receive those links. This is called Targeted Marketing and not Spam.
At least this gets you some more page views in the process!
You must be very careful how you go about promoting this on
Yuwie. Yuwie is getting paid to
advertise other ads and your posting all those ads for free is hurting
Yuwie! If you truly want to get people
to your other money making sites, why not just purchase some advertising space
on Yuwie? Then it helps you and the RSR!
I hope this has helped you understand how to go about
properly promoting things on Yuwie and what is considered SPAM. SPAM will not be tolerated.
If you have any other questions regarding this topic please
feel free to message me anytime and ask!
- Bones
ps – that 1 billion page views thing…its Spam (unsolicited,
bulk, consent not given to receive a scheme like that) not to mention is it
impossible to get 1 billion page views.
The math on that message is flawed, ok.
If you would like to know how, message me and I will explain it to
you. I flag each and every message I get
claiming 1 billion page views as Spam…..each one. Do NOT send these to me. Click HERE to read my blog about this Chain Letter.
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