DSmeet.com - a Nintendo DS community

Discussion in 'Websites' started by echelon, Feb 25, 2006.

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    Would you guys be so kind to give me your opinions? Thanks!

    • Began in late November, 2005
    • 6.6 million hits in January
    • Ranked 92,024 in Alexa
    • 63,800 results with the Google "site:" query
    • 74,500 mentions of "dsmeet.com" in Google
    • Appears in articles on Slashdot, Kotaku, Joystiq, DSfanboy, Engadget, and other top gaming blogs
    • 6,000 members

    I'm currently trying to make this the largest Nintendo DS community on the web. So opinions on how to get more visitors and keep the current ones would be great.

    Also, I'm making approximately $10/day with adsense. Would you say this is a good figure for a website like this or not? Should I expect more, and if so, what could be done to get the maximum potential without annoying the users?
     
    echelon, Feb 25, 2006 IP
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    GADOOD Peon

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    Excellent successful site mate. I'm sure there are a few things in regards to positioning and placement you can do to raise your revenue up a fair bit without going to over the top and annonying your users.

    I'd experiment placing perhaps the text ad 'banner' in the main content pane.

    You could also plonk the leaderboard text ad before the content in the main pane under your title, or the banner.

    Good look, just experiment with placement in the main frame and report back! :)

    Pete
     
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    GADOOD Peon

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    Here's a few ideas for you:

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    Obviously use the colour scheme you already have with your other Google ads on the left.

    Monetizing that main frame I think will see a significant increase for you.

    Pete
     
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    Ah, I see. That's a very, very interesting idea. I especially like the AdWords above the Player Search--very minimalistic, and in the right color scheme it would be amazing.

    Thank you much, GADOOD.
     
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    Wow, nice site. I think all you really need to work on is getting higher up in the search engines.
     
    ConfusedSoul, Feb 26, 2006 IP