I have been on Yuwie for a bit more than a month and a half now and I have observed many different techniques to generate page views. Some of them were extremely creative and efficient, some were less.
Anyway, one that seems to be extremely popular with a lot of Yuwie members is the "Mass comment" technique.

Basically it's a technique to allow you to open simultaneously 50 friends options pages in 50 tabs, then to go through all theses pages to click the send comment link, paste a picture, a "hello world" or a marketing offer and click send. This generates 150 views in 15mn.

I clearly see some pros and cons to this technique, and I'll try to sum them up in this blog.

The pros

• You generate much more than the basic 1000 views / month and much faster as well.
• Your upliners will get a good commission from you because you are really active, so you make your upline happy.
• You "keep in touch" with all your friends in your list, which can be very difficult once you have more than 100

The cons

• This is a very repetitive and boring thing to do, so you might get bored in the process
• Basically, what you are saying to your new referrals is "work for me like a robot to earn for me because I did it before you" which doesn't sound like the best referral motivator - indeed, the guy complain about his referrals being inactive.
• - Some people, like me are getting tired of receiving so many impersonal pictures that they have to reject, and if they earn a view for each rejected comment, that is still irritating
• This is at the opposite of the spirit of social networking Yuwie is based on.
  Social networking is about meeting and exchanging with people, it's about being creative, supportive to your friends, critical, informative, fun.
  Social networking is not about getting paid to click, this is mlm*, not social networking; when people join Yuwie, they are being told it's a social network, but when they enter and start to use it, they are asked to act like mlmers, so they are most likely to become sleepers since that will make them think it's the only way to earn anything on Yuwie.
  Moreover, they will come back to their old social network and tell all their friends about their bad experience, making theses friends impossible to refer for anyone else.
• Many people use this technique in combination with picture comments. Theses picture comments are a huge overload the server and the user's pages and tend to push people to disallow html in comments, while html can be such a great help to link to a blog in answer to another blog.
• This is pretty selfish practice since only you get the page views, so your commented friend feels his being "cheated" of his page view. Since I came up with the comments wall idea, I've seen dozens of profiles switching their comments to a blog and have started identifying the people who use this, so you are most likely not to get anymore page views from theses friends who are usually the people who really read pages and leave personal comments on your blogs and expect you to do the same in return.
• Not sure about this one, but according to the help section, there is a 3 seconds minimum between each view, so if you open 50 tabs in one click, they are all opened in the same second, or at least all the requests are made in the one second, if not the loadings. The way I see it, but I might be wrong, if the Yuwie team answer that it's an ok method it's because you actually see all the pages and use them, so nothing wrong there, the problem of is this a paid view or not is actually your problem, not their.
  Let me put it another way - If you view 50 pages and only 3 are counting as paid, who is it better for ? you or yuwie ?
• Finally, this doesn't require any creativity. Not sure it's a pro or a con, but I prefer to put it there. If FaceBook is getting very popular, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that users don't need to be creative to have fun with it, so that makes it an easier social network than MySpace.
  Still, I tend to think it's also what makes yuwie or myspace more interesting than facebook, so since this method is not creative, I believe it doesn't add value to the network and that makes it a con.


So my conclusion is clearly that this practice should be avoided, but still, I want to keep this an open discussion. I'm not on Yuwie for that long and I might not see all the aspects.

Please post your impressions and the eventual other pros or cons that I didn't see.

Thanks for reading!

*mlm : Multi Level Marketing