Mutual Optimizing from SEOrce
I recently registered with SEOrce a social click-bank website available in beta mode from Chris Gray - SEOrce CEO. So how does it all work. The idea is simple (as usually the best ideas are) you register with the SEOrce website and download their widget/code and insert it into an existing/new page on your site.
Once that is done you then scout the already signed-up members websites and find their widget - enter your unique username and thus registering a hit against your company and gaining yourself a point. The website company that you just hit captures a point as well.
SEOrce have taken measures to stop spammy hits and captures - I’ll let them explain this one—
* You’ll receive a hit point for each unique visit to your site and a capture point for each unique visit you make to a member’s site. A unique visit is a visit from or to a seperate SEOrce user. Each visit is recorded to avoid the possibility of duplicate visits. The reason for this unique visit rule is to prevent one user bombarding one site and thus ignoring other SEOrce users’ sites, which is contrary to the whole point of the system.
They also add to your point scoring by adding the incentive to visit your members area each day and receiving an active membership point. However, each day your inactive points are skimmed from your overall score.
So how is this going to help me rank better by installing a widget and click scoring other like-minded soles - I hear you ask. Again I’ll let SEOrce answer the floor on this one —
As your SEOrce ranking increases you’ll be closer to the top of the all-time, daily and/or monthly lists that are visible across all SEOrce site pages. This makes your site easier to spot, become more likely to be targeted, and thus increase your SEOrce and search engine rankings.
Right it definitely sounds like a nifty social interaction site - it smacks of web 2.0 interaction - and I have registered but I haven’t yet found the time to install the widget and go and improve my click bank score. So what’s stopping me!
I do like the concept - I really do and hopefully SEOrce will grow beyond all expectations but I do have a gripe about a few things.
The League Tables are kept in IFrames so that means any top-level page holding some link juice won’t be getting passed to my domain if it were in the top tables. I would be happier if the links were clean and just regenerated onto the page itself. The lack of choice for anchor text instead of just my sites title. Finally the look and feel of the site it looks outdated and its just launched - not a good sign. But with feedback from myself and others I’m sure Chris will get these ironed out before it comes out of beta mode.
SEOrce is a grower (a slow burner at the mo) but it is heading in the right direction and just watch out for other serp-click-bank websites being spawned if this is a success.
Chris Gray said,
Wrote on September 18, 2007 @ 11:37 am
thanks for the interest in the site. we’ve looked at your negative comments and we’ll take them on the chin.
we’ll have a look at the iframe issue - there’s a lot of info going on in those seperate pages, so we wanted the page to load independently - perhaps it won’t be such an issue, we’ll have a look at it.
the lack of choice of anchor text? what would you prefer to have?
and the look and feel of the site - around half of team like the look of the site (comfortable, not too corporate), but like you, one or two aren’t too keen and are squawking now with ‘told you sos’ aplenty. if we get more negative feedback on this issue we’ll have a rethink ok?
like you say, it is a slow burner, but when it sets off we hope everyone benefits from the system,
Chris Gray and the TrainStorm team