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Hello. If you put a texture on a prim that is saved to the alpha channel, then layer multiple copies of that prim one in front of the other then you get a flicker as you move the camera. Is there a fix or work around or trick to avoid this? I asked this question about 7 years ago and didn't get a satisfactory answer. Since then I have muddled through and accepted it as just another SL quirk. Today it's really annoying me! So I thought I would ask again in the event I had missed something. :matte-motes-big-grin: Cheers

Pussycat Catnap wrote: Opinion. Not necessarily fact. And be careful with your tone there, this isn't [certain 3rd party forums] and you might notice certain argumentative names no longer posting here while others have been (or trying) toning themselves down... You probably don't mean to provoke, but starting out with 'wrong' as a sentence can end up baiting people. LIke Rene, I have been away from the forums allot of last year. Can you explain further what's been going on please?

Firestorm. I like tike viewer 3 allot but I can't live without free texture uploads and the other enhanced building tools that Firestorm offers.

Haha. You are right, I never walked around advertising the fact that I was a gamer, although i'm sure my post history would betray me as i relentlessly probed Darrius to find out his secrets. I always knew you were a gamer though, you're not exactly shy about sharing your opinons :matte-motes-big-grin: Just like you, I didn't see it as gaming. I deserved to be on page 1 for certain words, i'd earned that right, not necessarily at the top of page 1, but somewhere on page 1. If the search engine failed to recongnise that then I felt it was my job to 'fix' it. So in my opninion any gaming I did was purely motived by helping the search engine return a relevant set of results. I never lied about what I sold to trick people into visiting my stores. For the first time in years I am not gaming and still on page 1. No paying for picks, no paying to accommoadate hundreds of spam prims.... it's quite refreshing. I am assuming LL have moved away from GSA now? I dunno as I am only a part timer here nowadays, I don't keep up, but search seems to be ridiculously easy to understand.

I used to be a search obsessive and gamed myself onto page 1 for words like 'houses' and 'prefabs' for 7 years. In my epererience during testing of GSA gaming, traffic was pretty much negligable in determining rank. I'm not saying it wasn't a factor at all, but keyword spamming was so powerful I think it rendered traffic obsolete. I could double my traffic for a 24 hr period and it would not increase my rank at all That's not the case any more. I did a test just last week, my normal traffic is about 3k - 4k. I increased it to 8k for 24 hrs and jumped 10 places in the ranking to the top of page 1. I guess I could have gone higher but there was no where else to go with the keywords I was testing with. ETA - I don't game search anymore as there is no real need. I used to obsess over the being #1 on page one but nowadays I am happy to land where i land within reason. Just thought I would mention that to help avoid any anti gamer ranting.

Thanks for the replies. This pretty much sums up the current incarnation of Linden Lab in my opinion. They have had well over a year and they can't even fix a major bug on a simple commerce website. I miss Apotheus SIlverman :matte-motes-crying:

Thank you Rodvik for propping up this dying cash cow for just a few more years so we can suck every last drop from it's wrinkly weathered udders.

Phil Deakins wrote: What changes? Traffic bots are still banned so it's risky using them. I can't remember exactly when it happened, August, maybe Sept. It was the last major overhaul they did. Overnight, old gaming practices such as keyword spamming became detrimental and other factors were bought into play to determine rank. Through trial and error It became clear to me pretty quickly that traffic was once again a contributing factor. Nowhere near as much as it used to be before GSA, but it is still once again relevant. When I say bots, I mean people logging in inactive avatars to boost their traffic score, I dunno if they are using bot clients or not. I've just seen a few of my competitors start using bots/alts again in the last 6 months to boost their traffic scores and ultimately their inworld search ranking. This is why I assume that traffic gaming may have helped increase, or at least lessen the decline, of concurrent users.

About 2 months after they closed SLX and forced us all to the new MP, I remember an issue that I encountered. I went through and edited about 200 listings. Once I was done I discovered that all those edited listings had lost their ranking. They effectively went to the end of the search results for relevant keywords. So has this issue been fixed? I don't really follow MP development so thought it best to check before I start tinkering? Thanks.

I would guess that the use of traffic bots has increased over the last qtr due to the changes made to inworld search in the latter part of last year.

Pamela Galli wrote: Mesh. I''m finding it really hard to commit myself to developing mesh in 2012. So many people I've spoken to are experiencing performance issues with the V3 based viewers and are refusing to use them. With such a small percentage of the userbase actually able to properly view mesh (and I expect a good percentage of those people are creators themselves) it doesn't make good business sense to me to spend my production time producing content for such a small userbase. I've played around with mesh trees and landscaping items, but I am wary of investing hundreds of hours into creating large mesh builds. So I am completely undecided on how to develop my business in 2012. 6 to 12 months ago I was all ready to embrace mesh, unfortunately I don't believe the average prefab purchaser is ready. So at least for the next few months I guess I will continue to develop builds with standard and sculpted prims, taking advantage of the new scripting and LI features to make my prefabs more prim efficient and lag friendly.

jujmental wrote: Banks do things for free? Yes. I regulally transfer small amount directly through online banking to international bank accounts. I also recieve small payments without the payee being charged. jujmental wrote: fMaybe in your virtual world, but not in the real one. I don't own a virutal world and banking has been banned by LL in SL so i'm obviously reffering to the real world. Maybe you should consider changing banks if yours is charging you for small funds transfers. jujmental wrote: /Foreign transfers are EXPENSIVE! This is all dependant upon the bank you use. My bank applies charges based on the amount of money being transfered. Small transfers under £250 are free of charge. jujmental wrote: And then you get investigated for money laundering . . . The amount that Maddy wants to transfer will be less than US $150. Who exactly is going to launch an investigation into money laundering?

Can't you just get their bank details and do a direct bank transfer? This should be free even if the payment is international.

Yay I love Lemmings, I managed to find a version of the classic recently for PC, it was great playing it again. Allot of the old games I liked in the 80's and 90's often turn out to be better in my memory, when I actually play them again they are rubbish and it kind of spoils the memory. Lemmings i'm glad to say has stood up to the test of time and I have got my seven year old son playing it now. I still have the original up the loft along with my Amiga....in a box behind the Betamax video, on top of the Squariel :matte-motes-big-grin:

If your region was rolled back that may account for it assuming you had only very recently added the item to the box. EIther that or there is a hole in your box and your item fell out.......get it? a hole in your box........you make holes.........hmmm..............i'll get my coat.

Ciaran Laval wrote: I would love to see search metrics, or at the very least search metrics for how people came to my parcels, alas I've never seen them. That would be very cool. I did a massive customer survey during 2007 and got about 400 replies. One of the questions I asked was "what brought you to our store" and got a large variety of answers. I was expecting nearly all my traffic to be generated by Search, Classifieds and SLX listings but I was wrong, a lot of traffic was generated by word of mouth, much higher than I had anticipated. Also things like house shows, magazine articles and mall displays and promotional vendors in other stores had a much higher impact on my traffic than I had anticipated. On the other hand I learnt that ad boards (which were like a plague accross the mainland back then) and the my website generated a lot less traffic than I expected. So all in all, very useful data. One answer I remember was from a customer who worked as an Escort. She went back to a client's house to do her 'business' and really liked the building. so as soon as she got paid she teleported over and purchased the house. In a way it made me feel like her pimp :matte-motes-big-grin-wink:. I guess I was being a tad naive expecting LL to have published search metrics. I'm sure most of us could make an educated guess at the top 10 or 20 search terms but I would really be interested to see some of the less popular search terms for more niche markets or to see how many keywords someone uses in the average search.

I might be being a bit optimistic here, but are there any search metrics available for the MP or inworld search? Primarily I am looking for a ranked list of search terms executed in the search engines? i.e. what do people search for the most? I don't remember ever seeing such a report. A RL client I am introducing into SL asked me the question so I thought I would throw it out here. Cheers

Ah yes. SIlly me. I shall probe Darrius. :matte-motes-wink:

Ceera Murakami wrote: What bank? LL outlawed any sort of in-world 'Banking' quite some time ago, because of massive fraud in unregulated so-called banks that accepted deposits from residents, promised high returns, then skipped with the money. GINKO!!! THOSE THIEVING BAST***S. They say time heals all wounds. They are wrong and I am still bitter. Thanks for reminding me :smileysad:

LOL 900 was quite a good guess actually, well done :matte-motes-big-grin: Actually i'm in the process of removing all keyword spam and it's a pain in the arse, especially with all the rezzable demo's! I'm at the point now where I have nearly all of it but there are an elusive couple of dozen prims that I can't track down.

Hi. When inworld search index's my parcel, it generates a web page listing all items set to show in search including a link so I can TP to each individual item. This is groovy What I need is a tool that can generate this report whenever I want including creating the TP link. So I am not reliant upon search to do it. I have hundreds of demo's in rez vendors and I need to track down any link-sets within each demo that are set to show in search. So....does any such tool exist? Thanks.

Josh Susanto wrote: I believe what you have said. I also have to ask whether, if there happened to be a massive borking of practically every significant facet of SLM function, your data would have any way of showing that. If it can't show that, then in what way would it show that such did not happen? SLX / SLM has never accounted for more than 10% of my total sales so I don't really pay that much attention to it. I see SLM as just another advertising portal rather than a significant point of sale. I try to use it as a tool to draw people to my in-world store and see little point in relying on a website to sell 3D virtual content when there is a perfectly good 3D virtual world out there. Was this thread specifically about a drop in SLM sales then? If so I didn't realise that. When I talk about sales i'm mainly referring to inworld sales on AGNI and elsewhere. Maybe in future I should read the whole thread before replying :matte-motes-big-grin:

I have sales data spanning over 6 years now which all gets imported into a database. Using this data I can run a report to generate a graph showing the peaks and slumps for the past six years and every year there has been a slowdown in July and August. This has been consistent year on year just like the peaks have been consistent too. I am not saying this is the same for all industries or even for the whole prefab market, but for me it is the case. In the past I have traditionally used the summer months to really knuckle down and build new content in preparation for the coming peaks. I fully expect to see my sales gradually increase during Sept and early Oct then get a massive boost in mid Oct...as that is what always happens. When I look at this data now after all these years it is amazing how consistent the trends are considering how many spanners LL throw into the works every year.

Gunner Grun wrote: I don't want to Hijack this thread but why is it when I put out 315 keyword spam prims using the same words as the number one guy and I mean the same took me 8 hours. I went for the bottom of page 1 to the top of page 6. There are other factors taken into account as well as keywords, most notably land size and keyword diversity on the plot. For your experiment to work you would need to replicate all the factors existing on the number one guys land and apply them to your own. That involves fully understanding how search works and there are not many around that do. cough "Darrius" cough

I don't know what the policy is but from someone who has sold allot of prefabs and built over 100 custom sims, my work has appeared in allot of places without my consent. From other players sales advertising, to in-world publications, to machinima, to an episode of The Office on NBC to Linden Labs advertising for SL. Regarding LL I thought I might be able to get some free tier out of them so I contacted them in 2009 and asked them to remove the offending image from their website or to compensate me fairly for my contribution. Their answer was basically All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Regarding anyone else using my content to help advertise their own....I don't mind at all. It's all free advertising for me and extra bonus if they make the effort to cedit me for it.