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Originally Posted by altworld
Just going to address point one, even though I still believe you should make page viewing open and rating sign up only.
If I am going to push traffic to your website I am going to want people to land on my page first. That way I get a direct benefit from pushing traffic to you, as you know traffic is precious and we all selfish where we want to send it too, if we want to send it off site at all. At the moment saying go to this website and then asking my traffic to sign up, then search for my page, before they can do anything isn't benefiting them. It isn't about pushing friends or family there because if people want to 'game' the system that is already easy to do.
If you have open read with sign up to add ratings, with links directly to author 99pages there is a mutual traffic benefit. I can send traffic to you, my traffic gets to read another page of my novel, and rate it if they want to sign up to your website.
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I appreciate what you're saying here but again, what you asking is still, basically, 'can I load the results'. It isn't about asking your fans to go there, read your page and sign up if they want to vote for you, it's about seeing how well your writing stands on its own, among people who may be unfamiliar with it and you.
Now, clearly, this is going to appeal more to a debut author than a seasoned pro but... If the site is random and the page 99s are genuine then your work will stand or fall on the quality of your writing rather than on how big your tribe is or much time you have to drive traffic to the site. This is completely different to any of the other sites where success is are all about how many friends/fans or much time the author submitting has.
Surely if you 'win' the random page 99 way, you get a 'genuine' result. Don't you want that? Because I sure as hell know I do.
Lance, if you're still reading, please don't be tempted to change the matrix. Trust me, in this respect, Page 99 is about the only thing approaching a level playing field out there.
Anyway, as every wine buff knows, you get the most interesting results from a blind tasting.
Cheers
MTM