Hmmm... wrote:
> I notice the only way to get to
> Customer Sites
> now seems to be from freeola.com.
>
> I can't see a link from getdotted which would also seem
> natural?

Though I am not involved with this, I think there is some question over Google's handling of outbound links which is restricting what we can do with Customer Sites, but this is being evaluated.  Also the Customer Site of the Week is no longer part of the Gaming Awards.

Hmmm... wrote:
> I can't keep up :¬P

I have two answers and some additional pause for thought in order to confuse the matter further:

1.  The Customer Site of the Week used to be part of the Gaming and Design Awards.  i.e. we used to allocate a £30 voucher.  Now that they are no longer Gaming and Design Awards, the Customer Site of the Week is no longer part of it and only receives publicity for their site instead (not a Free Game or a Gaming Award).  It is therefore technically correct of me to say "no longer part of the Gaming Awards"

2.  A quick Google search for "site:freeola.com gaming awards" reveals 61 results.  So the term "gaming award" is still current within the site.  Personally I think if you say to people "You can win a gaming award" that's a little meek in comparison to "Win ANY game of your choice absolutely free, even the latest top games for PS3, X-Box 360 or Wii"  Therefore, you will see less mention of the timid "Gaming Awards" and more mentions of "Win Any Game Free".

Of course those people who don't want to choose a free game can still have a £30 Amazon Voucher.  These cost us the same as a £34.50 game because the VAT works to Amazon's favour not ours.  It is in fact £3.91 cheaper for us to issue Argos vouchers.

There - clear as mud!

*sniff*

The hall of fame is just awesome. I feel so proud to be in the picture. Its a nice touch.

Incidently is there something wrong with the cheats page? the submit button wasn't working. I take it was because warhunt was looking into a possible problem that may have occured when uploading cheats.

Personally i think it was more about human error then technical faults but since i don't know the full process i can't say.

On other matters, shouldn't the win free games tab be the first tab? a sort of gameaday homepage tab?

Help me here, whats the difference between the freeola gaming home and win free games tab? They seem to display the same info but in a different layout. What gets confusing is how the win free games tab appears to have a special little sprite suggesting something special or immensely important, yet isn't the home page. Surely the home page should have the sprite or be renamed or something.

Hmm... this is baffling me.

For me the site looks so much better now and I love the little sprites on the tabs and the title.   I'm sure the top right one is doing the robot or breakdancing.  Actually, looking closer it could be the David Brent dance.

What I'd like to see is a bit more of a link between freeola reviews and the actual Game in GAME, making use of your links to their site.

Hmmm... wrote:

> Where you previously said:
> I think there is some question over Google's handling of
> outbound links which is restricting what we can do with Customer
> Sites, but this is being evaluated.

> If there is some concern over upsetting Google you could always
> use the NOFOLLOW attribute when linking to Customer Sites.

> I'm not quite sure what issue you are concerned about - linking
> to Customer Sites as it is only a sub-domain of Freeola!?

We can't use nofollow for all of the sites because one of the main benefits to customers is to quickly introduce new sites into search engine listings.  This normally happens within a week or so.

It is my understanding that nofollow is not quite as nofollow as it used to be!

Customer Sites is not on a subdomain at present Customer Sites

hippyman wrote:
> I'd like to see a page with all the games users have submitted
> content to.
>
> when you enter the review forum, there is a long list of threads
> covering a wide range of formats and even multiple reviews of the
> same game all mixed up in "last posted" order.

There is a "Filter by Format" drop down menu which is particularly useful if you are looking for SNES reviews *-*