Arcade gets around 6,500 UV/daily, earnings of $60/daily. Can I make more?

Hello guys I am the owner of www.GameFrat.com an arcade website that has been around a while. It currently gets around 6,500 / UV daily and makes roughly $60 a day. Is there anything that you guys see that I could do to make more money (probably with affiliate programs).

I currently monetized my site with Adsense and CPXInteractive (Adsense being the big earner). I'm dabbling in CPA now as you can see on the right side the "Free XBOX 360 ELITE" thing which is failing miserably. I'm open to any ideas, thank you!

 

Yeah put CPA banners under each game and relate the product to the nature of the game. E.g. If you had a driving game put links or banners to Xbox-PS3 Driving games.

 

Hey JJC, thanks for the response. You know that's a really good idea. But all the CPA networks i'm apart of are bland. The only thing I can get remotely close to "games" is games for your cellphone. But either my users catch the hidden fees or they are too young and don't have a cell phone. If you know of any CPA networks that have diverse game categories your ears are mine.

Thanks again for the response.

 

You could try Amazon but they don't pay very well but are very good to work with. You could also try this company because you can link to the pages that the products are on http://www.affiliatefuture.com/home.asp are some pay well.

Chris

 

Thanks Chris. I'll give AF a look. I'm open to more ideas.

 

No problem. PM me if you want more help.

Chris

 

Took a look at affiliatefuture, there was only 2 programme's in the games category.

 

You should be looking at af uk not us, in the uk they have loads. For one I would suggest is sign up with cyberslotz, on af (uk) and put some of these images with a target=blank with your affiliate link, within your selection of games You get a starting £20 per deposit

 

HI doug with that amount of traffic you really need start link exchanging with other sites like smahin games and bootyarcade.

then they send u more traffic back.

Thats how it work i now you get a huge asmount of serch enginge traffic and that uis great keep up the hard work

Thanks Anthony

 

How can I chage it?

EDIT: NVM just signed up again.

 

Hey Anthony. I email every arcade owner individually, but I get no response. I've talked to BootyArcade owner over aim before, i'll have to aim him again.

 

Gamefly offers a CPA program for free trials of their Netflix-styled video game rental service. Seems like a perfect fit to me. I'd throw that up and see how it goes.

 

Negative, i've tried it once. Complete waste. I think it's because my site is mostly viewed by teens.

 

Well, if GameFly won't work, I'd imagine nearly all CPA programs would fail. It seems like it's targeted toward the site's user base, and it's free (although it does require CC for validation).

CPM programs may be a better approach for this type of site.

 

Ya, all I can get into is CPXinteractive.

If anyone is in a big CPM network and can talk to their affiliate manager. I can make you a nice chunk of change as a referral.

 

I am in the same boat as you.

At neverblueads, try the iwon.com ads. Also, try smileycentral ads (use the rotator to rotate a few)....those seem to be the only ones that convert for me on my arcade. Also, if you have girl games, put Zwinky ads on the girl game pages!!

Join kontera if you have not already done so. Does great on my arcade.

Also, try funklicks(cpc) and Onads(cpm) publisher programs...not the exchange. Moregamers is paying $0.40 cpm for their 100 x 100 banners.

Do you use popunders? If not or so, maybe try adversal or paypopup.

Adtoll is also great for arcades!! You earn from RON ads and sponsor ads. With sponsor ads, you choose how much you want to earn. I earn from $0.02 to $0.06 per click.

 

You could try using geo-ip targeting to show ads, for US users you could show a certain cpa offer, and for UK users a different one, and adsense for other countries, this way you don't have any wasted traffic. Openads with maxmind is great and free

 

Thanks sandyfeet! I'll give it a shot.

 

How can I geo-ip target. I tried all the phpAdsnew programs but they are just so difficult to learn how to use.

 

What campaigns do you use now? I get over 6500 UV's per day and I don't make nearly that much with my arcade site.