How to get 1M pageviews before launching your product

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4 pointshenryaym3 comments

In summary, they trawled the web for more than "30 million unique videos", created an HTML page for each one, and submitted them to search engines. And that resulted in 1 million pageviews.

Isn't that just a spammy linkfarm? It might work in the short term, but I don't think Google like that sort of thing so it won't work when they notice.

> Isn't that just a spammy linkfarm? >

I think you wanted to say "content farm" like all those sites that use wikipedia text.

I don't think their app is spam though, or a content farm. I can see how a video page[1] could be a "temporary" page to discuss some content away from the madness of youtube comments. Do you think google will object to such "mass embedding" of youtube videos?

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[1] http://shelby.tv/kunaltandon/shares/524722b3b415cc5771058e23...

You are spot on, the intention isn't to be spammy, its an attempt to intelligently organize video content around what people have to say about it.

Youtube (Google) incorporates plays from video embeds into its ad model, more embeds == more views == more $$ for them. They don't mind at all ;)

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