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Hey Halfmarley,

I asked a similar question in the New Scratchers' section and got a very helpful series of tips.

Gravitation wrote:

There are a lot of ways to advertise your projects, you just have to be creative. Here are some of the common ways of advertising your projects:

Advertise in Show and Tell. You can create a topic in the Show and Tell section of the forum about your project, and people will check it out. This can attract a lot of views once your name becomes more well known. Be sure to include a link to the project in the post!

Put a clickable image in your signature. Once you have 10 comments, 3 projects, and have been active for a month, you become a Scratcher. Besides being able to edit/delete posts, this allows you to have a signature. In your signature, you can put anything you like (a link, picture, text, a clickable image, etc.), and this is displayed at the end of every post you've made. If you post a lot, this will be very effective, as people tend to click on good-looking signatures.

Comment. This works for all the projects you have. Comment on people's projects. Some strategies to advertising your projects state that you should not try to advertise your own projects, but look through all the advertisements, and comment on others' projects; they and their viewers might click on your name and view your projects. This works especially well in conjunction with the other strategies, as people will click on your name if they've heard of you before.

People will advertise for you. Making your projects as attractive as possible (nice animations, cool icon, awesome graphics) and advertising using the strategies I've mentioned above will boost your views. People love to tell others they know about the "next big project" they've found, and then they'll check out the project, and tell their friends, and it goes on.

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Gravitation makes a lot of very good points. However, I also think that what you suggested, having people advertise their projects here, is a great way to get a small popularity boost.

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So if you'll let me, I'd like to mention my game, Ultimate Evader 2.0 (UPDATED).
It's a short, exciting play where your goal is to avoid flying spikes for as long as possible.
So far the highscore is 264, but who knows, you might just beat it!

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I am too new at Scratch, and I need views and stuff. Check out my project please, it's a cool project (if I do say so myself). You read short stories. If people love it, I will expand it.
So we can make it together. Wanna heart 4 heart? I'll love your game, you love mine? Whatever you want. Check out my game:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jigsaw79/3298847
Scratch on.