what to write in Bulletins and comments?

[lazytype]

I was wondering what do you actually write in your comments and bulletins to get clicks to your msrs site. I have to say, I'm not getting as many page impressions as I thought I would with the amount of friends I have. What I do is I write a comment/bulletin about any crap I can think of such as hows your day been etc, and put a glitter or funny pic as my signiture link, but still no real success. I hear lots of success stories here, but I do wonder how they do it

[layoutcentral]

Good Question!

[djdustin2000]

Lazytype this is a great question.

I find the friend list is like a big group that you want to do something. Well the need to like you first.

I had several accounts and setup several split test.

One account I started sending bulletins and ads and backlinks and got some traffic.

The other account I would post 3 text plain messages for ever one backlink message and got a huge response of clicks on those 4th messages. Example:

Subject: OMG How Rude.
Message: Have you ever had this happen to you? Blah Blah some story about going to the grocery store and someone being rude and blah blah blah.

This sounds silly but eventually it makes you personable with any ads or backlinks envolved. The will enjoy reading your msg and when you do send that one message saying "You gotta check this out right now" you'll find the responses are better.

It's all in the list and you have to treat them as family.

** Note: This is just my opinion and your result may vary. :)

Thanks

[MKInfo]

I send pic comments from my site....nice funny ones with a little message.Example....over easter I had one a nice "will you be my Easter bunny" glitter with a small message.
I also keep a blog on my main profile and add any updates I do to my site in it.
The only bulletins I ever send is to say I have updated my blog.
I never send any bulletins advertising my sites directly as I think this is too dodgy.

I like your ending djdustin2000.Sounds like a disclaimer :biggrin:

[Sergio]

"BREAKING NEWS: Tom from MySpace IS DEAD!"

[djdustin2000]

Sergio: That would probably be the most opened Bulletin ever! LOL

[Connections]

And you think spammers ahve not already done this 10000000000000x before.

to have a good CTR in bulletins you need:

1) a targeted list
2) a personal heading
3) a effective comments with a bulletin that does not look professional at all, you need to trick people into thinks a newbie has posted the comment.

but all this been said bulletins and comments are turning to junk unless you have effective ways of promoting your comments, I ahve been in this game for 2 years and I know what works and what does not work.

Sure ANY THING work if you are into the "lists" game...

[that_girl]

"BREAKING NEWS: Tom from MySpace IS DEAD!"

That got my attention! :sweatdrop: Let's hope Tom doesn't see it!

[Cyclops]

I do very well with bulletins :).
It's actually the headline that you have to work on. You only have a few words to grab their attention.

Tom from MySpace IS DEAD! is not going to cut it, sure its an attention grabber but you have to follow through with something of substance.

I have said it before ... you have to have an attention grabbing headline, the body text must be short and to the point but subtle enough to intice the reader to take that extra step and use the link.
It can't be a live link anymore so you have to ask them to copy and paste the link into their browser.
It has to be a .com and it must relate to what you trying to get them to do.
If the bulletin is promoting Layouts a url with layout in it increases your chance of getting them to use it by 80% ... trust me I have done a ton of testing.
So www. layouts-togo-now.com will draw excellent results.

OK here's a bulletin I whipped up for Layouts, if I spent a few more minutes on it I could improve it substantially but you get the idea.

Does your Profile need a revamp ?

Are you looking for the latest mind blowing Layouts, the ones you see on those professional looking profiles ... if you are please copy and paste the Link below into your web browser ...

www. layouts-togo-now.com

The quality has to be seen to be believed!!

[Jazzylee77]

yeah, I think I'll finally admit I need to lose the live links in bulletins after resetting passwords on a high number of accounts for the second time.

I've never promoted a resource sites url through bulletins thinking a ban would completely kill it. I wonder what the possibility is of myspace taking the next step and killing even unlinked urls? How resource intensive would that be for them?

[Jazzylee77]

on reflection...I've never taken a url that caused a profile block after sending a bulletin and tried it elsewhere in myspace. Off to experiment.

[Cyclops]

They kill unlinked url's now but usually only for really bad stuff like porn and those darn penis ads. Thay also kill off any .infos automatically whether they are linked or not.

The trick is to throw up a URL as in the example above and use it as a redirec to your resource site. That way the site is always safe, use more tan one url to go through if you want to be absolutely safe but I have never heard of a site being filtered by Myspace, only the the first link.

To be honest, Myspace don't really care much about who posts bulletins, it's the content that they crack down on and they find that out from people who register a complaint .... there's a very simple fix for posting bulletins on multiple accounts but they haven't implemented it which shows it's not a priority

[Jazzylee77]

My testing agrees. My "bad" link triggers a block after bulletins but still works in profiles.

I've been using redirects, but combining that with a copy and paste url sounds pretty safe. I've got a new comment site with a couple unique features I'd like to promote through bulletins. I guess I'm off to the races!

Thanks again Cyclops for sharing the info.

[that_girl]

I do very well with bulletins :).
It's actually the headline that you have to work on. You only have a few words to grab their attention.

Tom from MySpace IS DEAD! is not going to cut it, sure its an attention grabber but you have to follow through with something of substance.

I have said it before ... you have to have an attention grabbing headline, the body text must be short and to the point but subtle enough to intice the reader to take that extra step and use the link.
It can't be a live link anymore so you have to ask them to copy and paste the link into their browser.
It has to be a .com and it must relate to what you trying to get them to do.
If the bulletin is promoting Layouts a url with layout in it increases your chance of getting them to use it by 80% ... trust me I have done a ton of testing.
So www. layouts-togo-now.com will draw excellent results.

OK here's a bulletin I whipped up for Layouts, if I spent a few more minutes on it I could improve it substantially but you get the idea.

Does your Profile need a revamp ?

Are you looking for the latest mind blowing Layouts, the ones you see on those professional looking profiles ... if you are please copy and paste the Link below into your web browser ...

www. layouts-togo-now.com

The quality has to be seen to be believed!!

I just copied and pasted what you wrote - then I posted a bulletin...of course I changed the URL and also the text. Let's see...

The word ''free'' graphics works too. :P

[Cyclops]

I just copied and pasted what you wrote - then I posted a bulletin...of course I changed the URL and also the text. Let's see...

The word ''free'' graphics works too. :P
Good, thats why I placed the bulletin on there, so people can copy it and refine it.

Free is good but automatically gives a signal that spam is involved. I try to use other words than Free to get the message across.
Like >>>> and best of all it won't cost you a cent <<<< at the bottom of the bulletin in place of >>>>The quality has to be seen to be believed!!<<<<

The most important part of a Bulletin besides the headline are the first 12 words and the kicker at the bottom. The rest is just fluff that no one really takes in.