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« on: Jun 05, 2007, 10:40:10 pm »
I've been seeing all these MySpace "pimp" sites and many of them are offering graphics for folks to use on their profiles.

Do the "pimp" sites get much SEO benefit from the links to these images? Is it equal to a text link or a matter of quantity?

Sorry if this is a dumb question.
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« Reply #1 on: Jun 06, 2007, 07:32:12 am »
In my experience (which is a little outdated so I may be wrong here) image links do not carry the weight that a text link (inside content) holds.

Even if it is, the different content that exists in different profile pages at myspace will give worse results in a pimp site.
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« Reply #2 on: Jun 06, 2007, 08:31:45 am »
these graphics have a higher CTR in comments on myspace because most of them are a kind of "personal"

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« Reply #3 on: Jun 06, 2007, 08:35:10 pm »
So are you saying that they are useful to bringing traffic to the "pimp" site?
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« Reply #4 on: Jun 06, 2007, 09:03:04 pm »
yes if you post this kind of images to a comment (plus a link to the site) the target site you have traffic (I posted a scree from a video to 2000 friends and got several thousand visits on my video site)

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« Reply #5 on: Jun 06, 2007, 11:11:31 pm »
I see. Putting a cool graphic on a comment will get folks to visit the site mentioned.

I was thinking more of the sites that offer images where the MySpacers can use the images to make their profiles. They offer the code and image for free and the code has the image hotlinked as well as comments or other code that includes the pimp site's URL. I have a few MySpace tutorials on my tutorial site and while they do fairly well in the SERPs, I was wondering if having some free backgrounds or what-nots they could use would be useful and not just a bandwidth drain.
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« Reply #6 on: Jun 06, 2007, 11:38:55 pm »
the image I have provided is from that kind of myspace resource sites

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« Reply #7 on: Jun 07, 2007, 11:12:03 am »
The only thing that scares me with this type of sites (and the reason I don't own one) is the bandwidth.

Think that one comment like this to only 2000 accounts can be about 4Gb of bandwidth. I guess running such a site could produce much much more bandwidth usage....
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« Reply #8 on: Jun 07, 2007, 11:22:16 am »
Quote from: Nikolas on Jun 07, 2007, 11:12:03 am
The only thing that scares me with this type of sites (and the reason I don't own one) is the bandwidth.

Think that one comment like this to only 2000 accounts can be about 4Gb of bandwidth. I guess running such a site could produce much much more bandwidth usage....

yes thats true, the popular myspace resource site having big problems with their bandwidth. If this becomes too much you need to store the "posted" image on some free image host Wink

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