Made a classic EQ leveling guide

[Daneril]

Hi, last week I made a plat guide for classic EQ / p99. This week I wrote a P99 / Classic EQ leveling guide. Any suggestions and feedback welcome. Going to keep updating it.

[Oleris]

Not a big fan of hosting wiki forum info on another website for your own financial gain.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Oleris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not a big fan of hosting wiki forum info on another website for your own financial gain.

The funny part to me is that I've done websites: I know how little online advertisers pay when you're hosting your own site, and this guy isn't even doing that: he's got a middle man. So for him to make even $10 off all this effort (and clearly rewriting all that wiki content must have taken him some time), I'd imagine it will take years.

And then you have to consider that most advertisers only pay you when you reach a certain minimum threshold, say $50, and taking that into account I rather doubt this guy will ever see a single check from this exercise.

But on the plus side, despite all the (very valid) criticism, I still think there's something to be said for new approaches to guides: it's just too bad this guy is all about the $$$ and not trying to help the community.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by DinoTriz2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's a WordPress site, there's probably not a middle man in regards to ad revenue.

Well I was going by the hosting:

https://www.mmorpgtips.com/project-1999-classic-eq-leveling-guide/

... but then I looked at the root domain and realized the truth: this isn't some loser making one-off P99 guides for a middleman: this is a loser who rips off guides from all over the Internet for all sorts of games as part of a massive shitty clickbait site. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I take back everything nice I ever said about the OP, but honestly I bet he doesn't give a fig what anyone in this forum says. He's not here to get us to like his pages, he's here to improve his SEO: he's getting a highly ranked site (this forum) to link to his content, and that's helping him with his real market: unsuspecting Googlers. As I noted, P99 forum-goers are a drop in the bucket advertising-wise, but he's trying to show up highly in all searches for P99, and that will lead to significant profits.

These people are the bottom feeders of all website builders, and really we should all petition the mods to ban this guy from the forums and delete his posts: he's not trying to talk with us and use the forum properly, he's essentially the same as all those ad scammers who try and post ads here (but we never see them because the forum mods do a good job of blocking them).

[stowned]

Originally Posted by DinoTriz2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How do you know? Maybe he's just a fan looking to give back using his website?

Do YOU have any shady motives for making wiki articles??

His articles aren't adsensed out the ass..

[Quinas]

Gross.

[Muggens]

WoW, not clicking

[jolanar]

Really bad leveling guide, somehow even worse than your really bad plat farming guide.

[TomisFeline]

homeboy you gotta stop copying free wiki content from others for ad revenue. if it's your work that requests you do it then start applying elsewhere. super shitty move. guide needs work.

[azeth]

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