Weird Web sites :-)

[grss1982]

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http://www.rentmydaughter.com/
http://www.rentmyson.com/

rent my daughter/son? :8O: what the heck has the world come to?

[dropbox]

this is too bad, sometimes i love see porn but these kind of things aren't good at all.

[blank]

Some Americans are really weirdooooooooooooooooooos. Can't they just think of anything than to sell their dauhter/son... hmmmmmmmmm. Who cares they're not operating here in Philippines.

[head567]

wala hibaw-i naa na tingali diri

[otis]

jeeez!!! weird indeed

[SPACEMAN]

Weow! watta lame ass site! its sick!

[drkhero]

Unsa man tawn ni oi!!!

[grss1982]

BUMP!!

Guys open the web site now Feb. 2007

Its just been revaled that it was some marketing scheme known as "Viral Marketing Campaign"

Atay mura ra diay to ug fishing expedition.

Exccerpt:

RentMyDaughter.com - A Viral Marketing Case Study

Did we like the idea? Yes. Did we like the subject matter? No. The long and short is that Lead Generation Marketing wanted to press the limits and find out how much viral commotion could be stirred up by venturing into the absurd, obscene, or bizarre. So, they came up with a concept.

What would be worse than parents renting their children? Well, nearly nothing we suppose. So that’s exactly the type of site they launched. Both RentMySon.com and RentMyDaughter.com were created to realistically portray a company that provided a service through which parents could sign up their children to be “rented” to others for such events and purposes as:

* Birthday Parties
* Prom Dates
* Posing as a Child for Father/Son Picnics

The list went on. All in all it was pretty bad. Is it any wonder, that virally speaking, it worked? In fact the sites boasted nearly 40,000 unique visitors per day at their high point and continued to receive hundreds to thousands of visitors daily for months and months.

Obviously, for all intents and purposes, they found a (twisted) concept that worked. What they lacked was the method for getting the initial exposure it would take to begin the momentum. What better environment than the Blogosphere?

A strategy was created in which MatrixMT did the following:

* Create a Related Keyword List
* Spider Search Results for Pages Meeting Minimum Keyword Densities, etc
* Compile and Sort Results (Websites, Blogs, etc)
* Refine Results by Removing Sites that Didn’t Allow User Contributed Content
* Further Refine Sites by Category (Entertainment, Watchdog/Advocacy, Petitioning, Parenting, etc)
* Create Multiple Form Filling Macros That Could be Selected from to Speed Up Posting
* Installed Statistics Software, Setup Search Engine/Blogosphere Monitors to Notify Us of Any Activity (comments, posts about the sites, etc)

From there the process was rather simple and only involved creative and realistic language to use in comments, online petitions, and other areas where amused, disgusted, and/or enraged (pseudo) web users could voice their recent find.

The entire process, excluding their web design and creation of web content, took just over 20 days to reach critical mass. In the end, unfortunately for this case study, all web stats were destroyed due to a random super-surge in traffic (months after the traffic died down) causing a server failure which resulted in a hard-drive failure. Sad, there were some pretty amazing graphs, peaks, and numbers.
What was Learned During this Viral Marketing Campaign?

* First Lesson: Pick a topic that doesn’t incite quite so much serious rage.
* Second Lesson: While amusing, it’s also pretty scary to be involved in something where people begin commenting that it’s a pedophile sting operation, or that they’re reporting it to the FBI!
* Third Lesson: Be careful in selecting an idea for your campaign in order to avoid brand reputation management issues once the campaign to company connection is unveiled.
* Fourth Lesson: Though not a competitive keyword in the commercial sense, the keyword “daughter” returns hundreds of millions of results. Within 2 months of launch one of the sites ranked number #13 in Google for the term, #8 in Yahoo! for the term, and #2 in MSN for the term. As far as Google goes it was definitely some insight into the sandbox, or probationary period that sites undergo for what we believe to be a period of time where their “trust” is gauged.
* Fifth Lesson: Viral marketing can lead to huge increases in a site’s link popularity. For those in the link development and search engine optimization world that puts an additional online ROI variable into the value of running a successful viral campaign.

[ares623]

try www.ikissyou.org .... now that site is weird.

[Redman]

try www.ikissyou.org .... now that site is weird.

look alike ni BORAT..hjeheheh