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Threshold · 09-05-2010, 02:14 PM

I have been meaning to make this offer ever since the "" thread sparked up again recently.

About 2 years ago, I started doing some freelance writing on a technology web site called . With as much time as I spent posting my opinions about games on forums and blogs, I figured I may as well get paid for it! Fast forward a few months, and now I am the Managing Editor of the entire .

What I would like to offer to the mud community is the opportunity to get reliable source media attention for their mud. Bright Hub is a professional web site with paid writers whose articles undergo a three stage editorial process. It is currently ranked as top 200 most popular web sites in the US, and it receives 40 million page views from 10 million unique visitors per month.

I would like to publish some newbie/starter guides for various MUDs out there. These guides would include factual or historical information about your MUD, basic information on how to start playing, and anything else of particular interest to new players. Links to official game forums, wikis, online documentation, etc. would be included.

A lot of this information would come directly from the MUD staff who would pass it along to the writer that was assigned to write the guide. The writer would organize it into publishable format, review the information against their own experiences playing or studying the MUD, and note that some of the specific information came directly from the MUD operators, web site, wiki, etc.

My only concern is whether or not these guides will generate enough traffic for me to justify publishing more than a few experimental ones. To that end, I'd ask that any MUD pursuing this offer promise to promote the guide enough to their playerbase that the guide will generate at least a couple hundred page views per month. That's really not that much since the guide is likely to be at least a couple pages, and a single person could generate (30 * the number of pages) page views in a month.

Ideally, this would be a great way for MUDs to get reliable, third party publication of information about their game.

09-05-2010, 02:14 PM	#1
Threshold Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Threshold RPG Posts: 1,260	Need Reliable Source/Media Attention for your MUD? I have been meaning to make this offer ever since the "" thread sparked up again recently. About 2 years ago, I started doing some freelance writing on a technology web site called . With as much time as I spent posting my opinions about games on forums and blogs, I figured I may as well get paid for it! Fast forward a few months, and now I am the Managing Editor of the entire . What I would like to offer to the mud community is the opportunity to get reliable source media attention for their mud. Bright Hub is a professional web site with paid writers whose articles undergo a three stage editorial process. It is currently ranked as top 200 most popular web sites in the US, and it receives 40 million page views from 10 million unique visitors per month. I would like to publish some newbie/starter guides for various MUDs out there. These guides would include factual or historical information about your MUD, basic information on how to start playing, and anything else of particular interest to new players. Links to official game forums, wikis, online documentation, etc. would be included. A lot of this information would come directly from the MUD staff who would pass it along to the writer that was assigned to write the guide. The writer would organize it into publishable format, review the information against their own experiences playing or studying the MUD, and note that some of the specific information came directly from the MUD operators, web site, wiki, etc. My only concern is whether or not these guides will generate enough traffic for me to justify publishing more than a few experimental ones. To that end, I'd ask that any MUD pursuing this offer promise to promote the guide enough to their playerbase that the guide will generate at least a couple hundred page views per month. That's really not that much since the guide is likely to be at least a couple pages, and a single person could generate (30 * the number of pages) page views in a month. Ideally, this would be a great way for MUDs to get reliable, third party publication of information about their game. Last edited by Threshold : 04-08-2013 at 05:18 PM.