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The first entry on StainedCheeks.biz Blog will be dedicated to our own very first highly-targeted Social Networking Promotion & Monetization service. In this post we will provide you both a cutting-edge package to achieve top position in terms of DeviantArt Pageviews with AUTHENTIC and MEASURED traffic, as much as a way to earn or at least benefit from your own DeviantArt page, getting a free subscription in exchange for help in spreading the word about our products.

What is DeviantArt.com?

DeviantArt.com is a US based Social Network, founded around 2000 by former Gnutella investor Angelo Sotira(copulous). The site started as a limited forum + gallery system in a very early stage of Internet History. It has grown exponentially due to the relative lack of alternatives, at the time of the first mass access to Internet (around 1999/2000 in fact), for a large audience of aspisrant artists, in need of public for their talents and of outlet for their creativity. The site has undergone many changes, expansions and modifications throughout its history; they include the development of mechamisms and features blatantly missing in early versions and responses to challenges sorely neglected in the past (EG, anti-spam systems, privacy protection, tagging tools). DeviantArt mission statement is, allegedly, the promotion of "Art", and especially of "Art" in subversive form, as the name would suggest. However, the commercial evolution of the site, from small virtual club to large Social Network, has taken DeviantArt in the direction of MySpace, with which it shares a fair amount of users and many socialization trends (comments, favorites, friends, profiles, custom css etc).

Isn't DeviantArt like MySpace?

MySpace and DeviantArt (surely the latter much smaller than the former, but still respectable in size), are two very large and established networks with constant (massive but probably stagnant) traffic; they share a history of rivalry and kinship. One major difference is that at the day of the writing (Jul. 2009), Deviantart is still owned by the original venture capital firm of the makers, while MySpace has already been sold time ago to NewsCorp (Which includes Fox TV & Sky TV). Without exceeding in simplification, we can say that DeviantArt is a smaller, older MySpace with less censorship and more freedom of expression. This freedom, however, is due more to the impossibility to monitor all events taking place than to an explicit and universal openness.

Which qualities does DeviantArt have?

DeviantArt is surely a very large site by contemporary traffic standards. According to Alexa, Compete and Quantcast, the quantity of visitors DA receives rank the site between position 100 and position 150 in the global list of networks ordered for traffic volume. DeviantArt userbase is mostly North America teenage; there are however relevant representants from all countries, of all age groups. The strong features of the site are the vast amount of profiles, the large quantity of cosmopolitan users, and the quite persisting attachment of such users to this "Community". DeviantArt users are staunch supporters of this site, where they feel "free to express themselves". This phenomenon is mostly founded on the presence of administrators who interact with members in engaging form, and on the quite long lifespan of the site, which has made many people "brand-aware".

Which defects does DeviantArt show?

Some valid ground for criticism against DeviantArt can be the low average quality of material exposed, the lack of attention to professional creatives, the vulnerability to spam campaigns, the somewhat invadent self-promotion spirit of all official publications that administrators "impose" you near to your private messages, the relative lack of modern Web2 features, and a general unreliability of the infrastructure. The weakness of the infrastructure, filled with bugs and limited in options (at least in historical perspective) is a problem emerged due to DeviantArt chaotic and erratic growth without a precise architecture, under the control of different people throughout different years. As last note, while it is true that there are usually 5 to 10 new accounts created per minute on DA, it is also true that a large amount of them is probably falling in the category of "extra account" owned by the same person, an already existing member. It is also reasonable to say that as many accounts are silently abandoned every minute, and that a large part of the user base is actually "dead" (accounts, including abandoned ones, can't be deleted and remain there stagnating "forever"; this is one of the issues of the site).

How does DA make money?

DeviantArt business model relies on 4 streams of monetization: general advertising from companies like AdBrite and Google; sale of prints, clothing, & merchandising to paying customers; subscription fees paid by users who want a higher status and more features than the free members; paid targeted advertising through the internal "adCast" system, used mostly to promote given members. The Community has undergone a severe crisis around 2001 and 2003 due to the extremely low revenue provided by advertising revenue at the time. Bandwidth and access were sensibly affected. Since then DeviantArt has become overtly commercial and has always given ultimate priority to the monetization of its traffic and userbase, jealously monopolizing the access to its promotion potential. The commercial twist on DeviantArt.com is clear from the marketing-like news posts made by admins as much as by the softly pushed feeling of competition given by "pageviews", "status", "favourites", "watchers" and such. These factors, carefully placed in position of attention, are taken by the average user as index of authority and visibility; they are thus a commodity to be hunted via various means, including by buying advertising and subscription.

What kind of work and people are hosted on DeviantArt?

The content is quite commercial and mainstream, we may say. SOme of the most popular and most visible kind of product are Celeb Fanart, Amateur Anime, videogame-related themes, fetish photography, Marvel Comics, and some fantasy character or sci-fi illustration of "classic" and "pop" kind. The users are typically beginners, students or general users without a specific artistic education but with great enthusiasm about visual arts. On DeviantArt quantity wins over quality, and mainstream is usually more nurtured than vangards. While there is no doubt that a relevant amount of professional illustrations and quality artwork is exposed on the site, the percentage of such elite work exposed ONLY on DeviantArt is limited; in other words, what is elite on DeviantArt can be found on other sites as well (the same artist has profiles on other networks), which are in fact higher in terms of average creative production and more selective as userbase. On the other hand the mass of traffic and the size of the "Community" is so large that other sites fail in providing a market of attention and a platform of visibility of similar magnitude.

Is it useful to be popular there?

We are sure that the professional creatives can find platforms of more exclusive and more selective kind, where real commissions are available and authentic business is offered to, and by, highly educated talents. The perfect example in this direction is CGSOCIETY.ORG, where the professionals of Digital Arts actually interact and build their corporate connections. On the other hand, as we said, DeviantArt provides a disproportionately superior audience of users and members, who will be interested in anything related to broad ideas like art, beauty, creativity with naughty and often erotic flavour. DeviantArt also provides a quite structured and exploitable "Stardom" system, that the professional illustrator endowed with some marketing skills may use to promote his own quality work and visibility, much beyond the normal niche market in which he/she operates (eg, covers for regional sci-fi books or concept-characters for a videogame).The fact that 18%/20% of DeviantArt random users, checked by us in a private survey, out of a group of 1000, are subscribed (paying money) indicates that there is surely a public of people willing to make investments and purchases, especially if presented with an online product that meets their needs and expectations.

Do people admire you for being "Popular" on DA?

While many people on DeviantArt claim that they " don't care about pageviews" in many of their threads or buttons ( a typical DeviantArt form of expression), it is obvious that DeviantArt as system and "mindset" gives to virtual visibility, cyber-celebrity, and Internet fame and its imperfect units of measurement a very large importance. Otherwise the pageviews indicator wouldn't exist at all, or wouldn't be placed in upper right corner, one of the most checked areas of the screen. Moreover, in a recent poll, www.z2g.net/?http://poll.deviantart.com/232/ , most users voted in favor of the PRESERVATION of the pageview system. The essential elements that users, secretly or publicly, utilize for assessing a member popularity are: pageviews received, presence of subscription, comments exchanged, amount of faves, amount of items exposed, amount of watchers. Most of them are readily visible and available to visitors, and it is not a random fact. Indeed, since some people with limited patience and skills have, in time, tried to inflate their own pageviews by rough means, alot of journals and discussions have gone on, on Deviantart, about the best way to spot and report "cheaters". One "classic" way that users nowadays apply to spot "cheaters" is checking a "discrepancy" between amount of watchers and faves and amount of suddenly received pageviews. This "meter" is not entirely accurate, and brings to unfair allegations. For example, a massive genuine external traffic campaign may well translate in top position for pageviews and in no comments at all, due to the fact that people who aren't registered on Da can't comment nor "fave".

How do I get popular on DeviantArt?

The above being said, it is obvious that if you want to be POSITIVELY popular in "faster thn usual" form on DeviantArt you need to accomplish the two following main goals: (1) getting pageviews, visitors faves and traffic in forms much above the average obviously; (2) provide demonstration that your results come from legitimate and authentic sources, be them internal or external to the site. In other words, you will need to address and neutralize the critiques that some users, for disbelief or envy, may throw against you, when, and if, a successful and innovative campaign of promotion has worked in your favour. On our site, which, as we said, is a "Popularity Monetization Agency", we provide a perfect answer to both questions. You not only receive visibility in terms of pageviews, faves etc; you will also have the solid proof that this is legitimate and credible. You won't need to hide your source of success; you will be able to indicate without shame or embarrassment the fact you have entrusted a solid external network with your own Internet Promotion on your site of liking.

How does your Popularity Package work?

We have resources and professionals that will immediately take care of your own ranking and position once you invest in our own product. We are NOT referring to bots, spam or such. We are talking of real marketing, real advertising, real viral campaigns. What we will provide includes: promotion on deviantArt itself with an effective and powerful advertisement, that everyone will see and that many will click; subscription package of 3 months if you don't have one; promotion on Google, Yahoo and MSN search pages; promotion via AdBrite, AdEngage and other networks; targeted promotion on Social Networks and clubs, be it Orkut or Facebook, where the kind of content our paying DeviantArt user exposes will be demanded and appreciated. Most, not all of this, you could do yourself, spending 3 months learning, wasting 4 times more the tariff we ask you for buying, and 1 week full time working on it. Surely going through our service is the best alternative to the "do it yourself". What we offer you is a privileged access to skills, organization and LARGE SCALE business that you cannot afford to pay nor to control on your own. Our tools aren't "officially" exclusive, but the level at which we use and offer them is currently unmatched and unique.

What is the degree of result that you ensure?

The outcome we warrant is that you will see a massive increase of your comments, favourites and watchers; surely not only of your own pageviews. We also promise, in terms of rough number, a top 5 position for several days or a n1 ranking for 1 day on Today.deviantart.com. Then again, this WILL come with organic visibility that nobody will be able to dispute. You will be able to check that REAL people are visiting your page en masse, and not bots that reload. THERE WLL BE NO BOTS AT ALL. The way to do this will be checking first of all your faves and watches, but also and overall your own page statistics on QuantCast, since DeviantArt traffic is directly measured by it. While "cheaters" will not see any change in the amount of authentic unique IPs in the days of high traffic, genuinely promoted users will see a spike of unique users, exactly on these days, on their own QuantCast segment. One example of QantCast check for authentic visitors: www.quantcast.com/lolita-art.deviantart.com . YOu can replace the username with yours and start checking. As subscriber of our own package you will see a more than dramatic increase accompanied by spike of ALL your DA indicators.

Isn't your system a cheat like other ones?

Our System is genuine - unlike the raw automated reloaders that make pageviews without meaning, that some people have used, we provide an organic and ultimate package of promotion that is tailored for DeviantArt and that will save you from accusations. We will provide vast evidence that will be decisive persuading your own visitors, friends and watchers of the AUTHENTICITY AND LEGITIMACY of your rank and position. In fact, we can also indicate you how to access one of the not yet fully disclosed and not yet entirely implemented anti-cheat methods that DeviantArt administrators have put in action. As we said, that is the statistical measurement of real clients connecting to each subdomains provided by QuantCast.com . Both for technical reasons and for anti-cheat concerns, DeviantArt has agreed to install QuantCast tools on its own system to provide genuine information on how many REAL people connect - not only to the network as whole, but to each SUBDOMAIN separately. This means that each user can check his/her own quite precise amount of real visitors at www.quantcast.com/YOUR_DA_NAME.deviantart.com , clearly replacing YOUR_DA_NAME with your DeviantArt handle. While an empty page and a page loaded by bots will look empty in the statistics on QuantCast, a page promoted by us or extremely popular by itself (such as famous stars) will have ALOT of recorded visitors on the specified address. QuantCast is an authoritative and valid statistics source used for marketing & investment decisions by companies much larger than DeviantArt itself.

Can everyone apply?

Yes and no. We will absolutely not discriminate any kind of content or any kind of user who isn't banned on DeviantArt. Any country, any ethnics and any kind of content will be eligible for a promotion campaign, as long as the price is paid. We will however reserve the right to exclude a number of users from a reserved blacklist that we own for historical reasons; we also reserve the right to refuse our service to empty galleries, to galleries with clearly irrelevant content, to galleries with copied content, or with content that is, in our opinion, not unique enough to satisfy the visitors that we will bring you. Typical, popular DeviantArt guidelines about "quality work" in your own niche will apply. If people around you sincerely think that your work is good, then we will probably agree and go ahead. In other words we will absolutely promote you independently by our own liking / disliking about your own content, but we MUST ensure that your content will be, by average standards, appreciated by the persons we bring you, in order to avoid isssues and complaints with upstream advertising providers. We are sure that 75% of people on DeviantArt are perfectly entitled to their major day of legitimate stardom via our assistance. CLUBS and COMMUNITIES are particularly welcome to apply as we appreciate the collective promotion effort made by these bodies, and 99% of the visitors who click the ads will agree that the variety they find is woth the effort.

How much does it cost?

The cost of our product is 75 EUROs payable by various means, which for security reasons we will indicate privately; "delivery time" is within 7 days after payment, with all details privately arranged with the client. The price, which is obviously subject to change, is a very competitive offer. You will agree by simply considering the wide array of promotion channels that the we activate and the technical tasks that we undertake in order to provide you an authentic, measurable, organic and legitimate top position on one of the most competitive and visited websites on Internet. Please contact by registering on the site for further information. Thank you for your interest!

I do not want to pay! Can I get something for free?

Yes you can. While we cannot provide our promotion services for free, we will give you 3 months of renewable DeviantArt subscription if you will keep a button, in your own journal, about our own awesome list of services using the Google PR tool image from our own partner site. This button will also provide another relevant piece of information about your page relevance: as the name implies, your current Pagerank. This number, provided by Google Inc, going from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best, measures how much high in search results your page will emerge. You can check it and actually apply the image by visiting our own partner site that provides this service. Example: check omen2501.deviantart.com or artgerm.deviantart.com on http://esw3.eu/google_pr.

Use the image returned checking YOUR OWN DA URL to create a hotlink to our own partner site, http://esw3.eu. The image code, if properly pasted in the context of a "a href" link, will work perfectly in your own journal. PROVIDED THAT THE PAGERANK and OTHER STATISTICS about your page are RELEVANT enough, we will pay you 3 months of DA subscription FREE. Inform us once you have placed the Esw3.eu button and we will provide info about the way to get the subscription on Deviantart. ATTN: currently Google seems to return ERROR for any pagerank query made for DA subdomains. So if ERROR is your result, don't despair - contact us and we will provide alternative link code.

Will my free DeviantARt Subscription last?

Unless other factors intervene, the renewal of your subscription by us will take place until you renew the uninterrupted exposure of the two buttons on your front page journal at YOURNAME.DEVIANTART.COM . Note that to get a long term partnership with us about this you HAVE to register yourself as user on this site.

Is there some extra incentive about promoting you?

Yes, for a relatively limited time, and in accordance with criteria that will be provided in private to users who place our buttons and who join our site (see previous question), we will hold contests and rankings open only to the journal owners who promote us; in these contests some of the awards will be promotion packages and similar benefits. So by getting a FREE subscription in exchange for some publicity about our campaign service, you also get a chance to WIN the product itself. Note: ONLY USERS WITH ALREADY ESTABLISHED FANBASE AND ALREADY RELEVANT FELLOWSHIP CAN APPLY FOR THIS KIND OF FREE BENEFITS. Contact us to get our case by case response.