Keep spreading the word Sega4life!

Then lets get cracking.. we have allot of news articles that need some attention.

+1 respect

now thats 2

This is a great thread.  I've noticed in the last week since I started posting articles and can now see where referal for articles are coming from, having articles posted on Digg, reddit and N4G.com really helps the number of views a game is getting.  There are also even more ways people can help promote the articles, for example, last week I posted an article about Sonic the Hedgehog and somebody posted a link to the article on Sega's official Sonic forums. That link got the article about 60 views out of ~1300 which is really good. Plus that gives a chance for people who would not normall check out VGChartz to give it a look.

But if people would help promote our articles using Digg, N4G, and reddit I think the average number of views the articles could get could really grow. So I'm going to start posting links to recent VGChartz exclusive articles, and put the number of Diggs, reddit rating and a link to the N4G on a daily basis, so if you are in the mood to help promote articles people will be able to see which ones need help. If you see an article that I missed or has been posted since I updated, go ahead and post it in here yourself please. I'm not probably not going to usually add the information for when new pics of games, or press release are added because that would be very time consuming on a daily basis, but if other people want to add that informaiton it would be great. If you don't have a Digg or reddit account it only takes a few seconds to sign up. To be able to contribute at N4G you have to pass a test, but it is not hard and links there help a lot.

PS3 Holiday Guide - Current Views 6,604, Diggs 139, reddit 19, N4G link

Americas Preorder Charts - Current Views 8,927, 13 Diggs , reddit , N4G link

Sales Battle of the Day, Current views 1,438, 6 Diggs, reddit 4, N4G link updated: has now been approved.

If you have a digg or reddit account all you have to do is go to the article and click on the boxes in the article.  It only takes a few seconds and is a big help.  Also, please post with information on new articles, new ideas of how to promote, or even if you just want to brag that you just helped, so that more people will see this thread.

Posting a daily update.

Weekly Analysis - Current views 5213, Diggs 11, reddit 1, N4G link

Retro Sales Game of the Day - Current views 112, Diggs 1, reddit 1, N4G link update: has been approved

Market Share Update - Current views 133, Diggs 1, reddit 1, N4G link update: has been approved

If more people could up our reddit articles that would be excellent, they don't need as many "ups" as digg to appear on the front page and they can provide a good number of views, plus creating an account is absurdly simple (I don't think they even ask for your data).

I regularily submit most articles to reddit, it would be nice if people signed up to vote them

Kind of an unrelated note, but VGChartz articles will now start appearing in Google News :)

I'm the one who normally submits your Gap articles, but I haven't submitted the latest one yet (been busy with school and work). I just sent it in for approval :)

Posting a daily update

VGChartz Gap Charts, Current views 2174, Diggs 1, reddit 1   N4G link waiting on approval

Like kowenicki said, being submitted on N4G is really helpful to the articles.  So, if anybody has an established N4G account (when you are able to approve articles), and are willing to approve new VGChartz stories, let me know on here or send me a pm. I would like to maybe have a group of people we could rely on to approve the stories, and then when a new article needs to be approved I could send everybody a pm or something asking them to approve the article.

Not just approving, but commenting, rating the submission as "Good" and clicking the link.  Even after an artice has been approved, we need them to get to 50 degrees to be useful.