© Dolphin's Guides © - How to GET LOADS OF READS (Writing a Good dooyoo Review)

Member Name: dolphin_style

Product:	Writing a Good dooyoo Review
Date:	01/07/01 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: Improves writing skills

Disadvantages: Social life takes a hammering

Welcome to the Dolphin's Guide © on how to write a quality opinion, and get a sumptuous amount of reads. I see yaw, licking your lips already.

Well first things first, I can’t tell you how to write good, that’s what your English schoolteachers is/was for. But what I can do is provide you with tips from my personal experiences on dooyoo. By the end of this guide, you will be the proud owner of the Dolphins knowledge. And hopefully you will enjoy the same success I am receiving throughout your dooyoo career.

Well just thought I would justify myself, I have only been a member of dooyoo for 2 weeks now. But I learn quickly, and before my dooyoo membership started, I perused the site for many moons. I realise what is required in an opinion, and what you need to do in order to get a fair amount of reads.

If you look in my profile, you will see that I am currently averaging around 40 - 50 member reads per opinion. This equates to a payment of approx. £2.50 per opinion.

So if you would all like to pull up a chair, I shall begin. <ahem>. Quiet at the back. :)

TIP #1
READING OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS

By far the most important factor in the quest to gain members reads is, of course, reading others people’s opinions. It makes sense, you read other people’s ops and this makes the site grow. Also if a member sees that you have read their op, they may return the favour.

TIP #2
RATING OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS

The second part of this read-reaping combo, is rating. After you have read a persons op, by this I mean read, as in taking all information on the page. Not your brief skim of someone and then a rating that goes with the trend. This brings me onto my second point: rate as you think is appropriate, not what everyone else has done. The trend may have been set by only 1 rater, and therefore not based on a group of people. Also you may spot something that other skim-readers ha
ve failed to do. I.e. a rather inapproapriate use of swearing. Just rate how you believe and you will get on fine. The next benefit of rating is free advertising of your name. When someone clicks on "who has rated this opinion" your name will be there and they may click on it: therefore generating you more reads.

TIP #3
COMMENTING ON OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS

To finish of the masterpiece, lol (lame, yes), you need to comment on the op. Now this comment should be about the op, and the op only. Not a personal matter -that’s what the email are therefore. Also to comment properly you need to have read the op fully....like I said before. NO SKIM READING. That defeats the point of dooyoo.

TIP #4
DEVELOP A CIRCLE OF FREINDS (COF)

As your dooyoo CV begins to grow, people will begin to trust you, and may even ask to be alerted when you write a new opinion. This gives you a nice foundation for a steady income of reads, and also generally gets you nkown better throughpout the dooyoo community. Is someone ads you to their circle of trust, take a look at some of their latest ops, and decide whether you would like to return the favour.

TIP #5
REFERRING PEOPLE

I currently have referred 3 people. 2 of my mates at college, and 1 person whop I met online. The people who you refer can be anyone, but what you must not do is SPAM people: i.e. bombard random people with emails advertising dooyoo. Also when people have joined up under your referral code, you get 100miles for every one of the first 10 ops. However this isn’t the main benefit of referring a friend, the real deal happens when you can alert them to your ops, and you develop a happy medium where you read each other’s ops. Not a clicking cartel, but a friendly relationship, where you view each other’s ops.

TIP #6
DONT BECOME A CHURNER

If you are one of those people who write about 20 ops a day, you are not goin
g to get people reading every one of your articles. Even if you submit quality ops, within an hour of each other, you will still struggle to get a decent amount of reads per op. My advice would be to submit a max. of 1 op per day, but if you can resist try and limit yourself to about 5 ops per week. This way your ops will be eagerley awaited when you submit them, and not a common writing-piece taking for granted.

TIP #7
READ / RATE / COMMENT BINGES

When you have got the time on your hands try and set an hour or so aside, to rate every single opinion submitted within that time slot. Especially try to do this before and after you have submitted an opinion. This creates a barage of links to your profile, plastered across the site. Dramatically increasing the chance of your op(s) been read by other members.

TIP #8
MAKE YOUR TITLE CATCHY

The title of your opinion is what draws member’s attention to your op. If you have a boring, dull and un-inspiring (is that a word) title, fewer members will feel the desire to have a look. However if you have title that would rival the headlines on the front of the daily sport, your well on your way.

TIP #9
POSTING TIMES

The time of day at which you post your op changes the amount of reads you get, by more than you would expect. For example purposes I shall use an extreme case. "OP SUBMITTED AT 6am"..... Whose gonna be there to read your op? Even if it does rival a Stephen King novel!! "OP SUBMITTED at 6pm"...quit a few users are logged on, and you also catch the boom of free ISP users.ie. those who get free Internet after 6. Careful planning of when you submit ops can increase your reads dramatically, good luck.

TIP #10
GET INVOLVED INA COMMUNITY

Try and join a dooyoo message board and community. There are a couple available including yahoo and opcom. I’m my opinion the opcom one is far better, and I can be found the
re most nights. There is chat room for members to communicate, and even a few of the dooyoo staff do the rounds.lol. Talk to Jill Murphy for some more info.


Well, out of breath, and covered in sweat, mind numbed...it was worth it :) Hope you found my guide helpful.

See you around on dooyoo

James aka. dolphin_style

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