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Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks

#1

Post by ankeshk » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:07 PM UTC

Show HN: Promotioner - Allow your readers to pay with clicks
promotioner.com

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#2

Post by morisy » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

Looks like an interesting idea, but I'd be extremely wary of signing up for any site that rewards users for helping boost your SEO with inbound links. Google has traditionally been pretty harsh on anything resembling linkbuying, and these incentives seem to blur that line.

That said, I think there's a lot of room for improved, dead simple referral systems, and I'm glad to see another one enter the fray.

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#3

Post by lewispb » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

The logo looks nice, not sure about the heavy black colour scheme though and I have to say that the headline font looks positively ghastly.

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#4

Post by kartikr » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

:)

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#5

Post by 1monthlater » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

Internet marketing garbage. Alas, tis the fate of HN.

"Just ask 2 of your friends to visit:

http://Promotioner.com/viral/?u=yourname@email.com

and you will receive the report "5 Elements of a Successful Viral Marketing Campaign" for free in your email."

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#6

Post by sp332 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

(And yes, for folks who don't want to show their email address in the URL due to spam worries, they can replace their email address with a unique username.)

I would make this the default. Exposing addresses like that is begging for your users to be spearfished.

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Post by ankeshk » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #6

(And yes, for folks who don't want to show their email address in the URL due to spam worries, they can replace their email address with a unique username.) I would make this the default. Exposing addresses like that is begging for your users to be spearfished.

Thanks. Creating a username requires people to signup. Signing up = friction. And makes fewer people promote you.

Allowing people to refer any URL without signing up, simply by adding their email id at the end of the URL seems to be working better in increasing web traffic.

Its a trade off. But its a decision taken because the pay off is worth it (till now. If a lot of users say otherwise, then will switch it).

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Post by stopachka » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

Awesome idea.

Quick thought: You would get a lot more users by testing difference bases(reducing the 15 to something really small, like 5). Feels like more people would do it, you would get more than 5 anyways, and the the exponential gains outweighs the difference in the base.

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#9

Post by ckluis » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

very similar to successnexus - but, they have a very good blog going as well.

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Post by ankeshk » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 1:57 PM UTC

morisy wrote: post #2

Looks like an interesting idea, but I'd be extremely wary of signing up for any site that rewards users for helping boost your SEO with inbound links. Google has traditionally been pretty harsh on anything resembling linkbuying, and these incentives seem to blur that line. That said, I think there's a lot of room for improved, dead simple referral systems, and I'm glad to see another one enter the fray.

Thanks Michael. The long term idea is to bring the idea of referral marketing to blogs and CMS systems.

ALL of the top 500 ecommerce websites have their own referral or affiliate programs. None of the top blogs have their own referral program. And thats because there was no dead simple way of referring blogs yet.

We plan to change that. Launching with reward-for-clicks as our MVP. Will introduce pay-per-sale referral model soon.

Google hasn't shown any harshness to referral programs yet. But even then, we're not going to focus on SEO part a lot. We consider it a side benefit. And it'll have just 1 line on our sales page.