Gaming Sites...

i have heard a lot of bad things about gaming websites. well not really bad, just that they pay and convert poorly. Can anyone out there running a gaming, or game related website give some feedback on how they are doing? Thanks

Matthew

 

yeah, ads on game sites have low payout .... my average CPC on a gamming website is 0.02 , 0.04 cents ¬¬

 

how is your clickthrough lucas? pretty poor too?

 

CTR is ~ 3 to 4% (one 336x280 ad only in download pages)

 

does your site focus on mini website games? or full pc/ps2/xbox, etc... and reviews/cheats and stuff like that.

 

downloads, some "old" articles, news and cheats.

 

Gaming sites will help you get an extra 3$ per day for a whole 60 click and 2000 page views .
if you are going to run a gaming site think again :
Flash games websites are just clones and they don't get high page rank by google .
No one wasting his time on a flash game will click on an ad about onlime marketing "bad targeting", even if a gaming ad shows up it pays very low .
a cheat codes website will be nothing, there the cheat gods around : gamewinners cheatcc and others .

I have a solution for you .. you can make a website for a one game like "final fantasy" just an example, on that website put cheats, screenshots, downloads, make some screen savers, belnd your ads very well, and because that game doesn't have a lot websites on the web your site may get the first on search engines "Use a domain "related to" or "contain" the game name .

that's in case you really want to make a gaming related site .
peace ...

 

thanks for the post. i actually am building a site about a specific game. the type of site that i am building for the game, will only have 3 main competitors. The click value, from the research i have done ranges from about $0.02 to about $0.60(probably not very accurate research, but i gave it a shot). I am going to put a link in my sig when i launch the site. It might even be a game some of you play

 

Lol... don't use any PPC ads on a gaming site. It's common sense - use CPM ads.

 

im actually playing on using a combo, cpm on the homepage, cpc on certain subpages. I was also thinking of adding some amazon items to the page, but have never used it before, anyone have any feedback about amazon?

 

It's alright if you have targeted keywords and it's showing items that are related to your site.

 

what does amazon pay usually?

 

I am currently playing Doom3 ^.^

 

I just opened a gaming blog because I like a playing MMO games, but I realized that I´m not making good money from it 0.01 clicks won´t make me rich

 

Well, I have a forum based on an MMORPG myself. I'm getting only around 7~10k impressions per day, but I'm making around $1.30 average. My earnings have been increasing by quite a lot over the last few days though from experimenting with ad placements. Hope that continues.

 

yep gaming sties are tough to make money on. You need a shit load of traffic to make anything worth whle

 

hehe, i like your name

 

"what does amazon pay usually?"

I have the same question.

 

does anyone have any sites based specifically on one pc/ps2/gc, etc... game? what kind of traffic do you recieve and have payed for it or is it a result of search engines? are you recieving more then $0.01-$0.05 per click? Thanks again guys. (i know...the only way to know for sure is to try myself. i am currently creating a site, just looking for some realistic feedback so im not disappointed with the return i get)

 

getting 3-4 dollar a day for about 65-75 clicks a day