Linking/Promoting Media Portal (1 Viewer)

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Anonymous

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Have you also had that feeling that you would like to help out in some way? After all, here we are, enjoying the hard labour of the team without beeing asked to do anything but to download the application. If you are one of those people and have the urge to help then here is my suggestion.

You are a site owner?
Did you know that it takes approximatly 1 minute to update a homepage with a link to MP? That is about the same time it takes to download the application. Why not update you homepage while waiting ;)

No site?
Find a site that you think is ok and ask them to link Media Portal.
Help us spread the word about MP.

Forum Preachers
If you get the chance to mention MP, then do it. You will

If you post a link, get someone to write about MP or start an interesting thread in a forum then let us know. Post your wins here and recieve a lot of karma. In fact, you will recieve karma to last you a whole year, now that ain't at all bad.

And here are some stats (how many that links to the site) to beat, here are the number of links for MP (20 hits) vs. Meedio (132 hits):

MP:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=l...s_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

Meedio:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=link:http://www.meedio.com

So what do you say, are you in our out? ;)
 

jadz

Portal Pro
August 30, 2004
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Canada
Samsonite, how about some 88x31 banners (and other sizes if you get a chance). When I get on a computer that has somethign other than MS Paint I will make some.

Code:
[img]http://jadz.com/postfiles/mpbanner_88x31.gif[/img]

[size="1"][url="http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net"]Media Portal[/url]![/size]


I support media portal!


Code:
[img]http://jadz.com/postfiles/big-banner_5.gif[/img]

big-banner_5.gif
 

Mars Warrior

Portal Pro
August 26, 2004
158
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Airy Crater, Mars
Home Country
Good thinking, but I think MP is too "new" for the search engines as its very easy to find more sites that link to MP but are NOT listed in the Google search :(

Searching for MP references, I also stumbled on many positive and negative opinions:

This software ran so slow on my 2 GHz/512MB box that I uninstalled it. The 3rd party support lags other products like Meedio (myHTPC). Maybe in a couple years this will mature into something
A couple of years?!?!?!?!

I've been using Media Portal for about 3 or 4 days now and it has been the best noncommecial HTPC software I've found. Almost everything I've tried has worked on it and setup couldn't have been to much easier. They seem to be working on improving this all the time. It's already gone up a version in the last couple of days since I began using it. If you are looking for a great piece of software for your HTPC then go download this and give it a try. I don't think you'll be dissapointed
That's more like it!!

And regarding the reference hits: if every forum member links MP on his/her homepage, or adds MP to his/her signature on every forum they visit, its clear who wins this rat race :twisted:
 
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jadz said:
Samsonite, how about some 88x31 banners (and other sizes if you get a chance). When I get on a computer that has somethign other than MS Paint I will make some.

Code:
[img]http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/images/small_banner.png[/img]
[size="1"][url="http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net"]Media Portal[/url]![/size]



I will do a couple of banners ASAP =)

BTW are you sure about the height and width of that banner? ;)
 

Messiah

Portal Member
August 30, 2004
22
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Sweden
Search engines

Don't worry. You know search engines priorities and displays the most common clicked links. So if you make a search on HTPC you wont get MediaPortal up as there has been so many click-thrus on other htpc links. But, hey. Do some jack-ass marketing material so that papers write about you, then you can count days until mediaportal will be the number one search reply on htpc searches. Soon...

Second, there is name. Many separates "Media" and "Portal" when talking about "MediaPortal". Of course Media and Portal point out so many other paths. You first marketing goal have to be to ensure the public understand that its named: "MediaPortal" and nothing else.

Third, there is the website URL. I have no problems with mediaportal.sourceforge.net, but the masses will have. You should register for example mediaportal.tv which still is free.

\Rob
 
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Mars Warrior said:
Now find someone to become a member of the myHTPC forum(s) and use the following banner ;)

big-banner_3.gif


I bet you get lots of attention...

LOL if anyone pulls that off then let me know :D And I want a screenshot ;)
 

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