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When Merentha started to be listed on this site in 2001 we were consitantly #1 or #2, and on the rare weeks #3 on the list. Then, because I personally feel any advertisments on your MUD's webite is somewhat rude and should only be done if it somehow rewards your mud (maybe you need $ to run it). So anyways I took our main ads for TMS off, and concequently fell from #2 in the lsit to about #80.
This is what I found:
1 - our web stats halved, we started getting only 1/2 the visitors
2 - our playerbase and the number of new players we were getting did not change
Conclusions: having your mud on the top 20 page is a nice little ego boost, but it does nothing for your playerbase. The growth of Merentha over the last 6 months is comparable to the previous 6 months when we were listed either #1 or #2.
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