hi, i have a new site www.thegamerspoint.com and it's getting daily 100 uniques. making from adsense only few cents. gaming sites were on top few months back but now people don't try to make one. may i know the reason? is it because you can't make good money out of it? or it is hard to promote? i have like $500 and thinking on it's promotion but do you think it's worth enough for long run business? can i make $100-$500/m just from my arcade site? your comments will help me alot. thanks
I think it's because Adsense has a hard time seeing what the content is about. That, and the fact that there's 10 million sites out there, just like any other niche that gets discovered. You should try it out for a little while and see what happens, though. That's a pretty good URL, at least.
Arcade sites on AdSence pay really low, so many are looking for other sites to build, as its not really worth it unless they have YPN - which is hard to get into, so many dont bother. Plus as mentioned before, because they are many sites like it before (heck I even own one), its hard to get much repeat traffic as there is nothing really unique someone can provide on a site like that.
Hi Stormy, Do your unique visitors leave from the main page? I visited your site and found it to be hard to understand exactly what your site does, why it would benefit a visitor and exactly how to get started. The forums link is hard to notice, it took me a few minutes before I found it, and that's only because I was looking for it. A typical visitor probably wouldn't spend minutes looking. It says" Arcade games you must play" but there is no information easily found that shows HOW. The site says you have over 2,000 games to play, but no easy to find sign-up link. The only easy option you offer visitors is click on a game or a google ad. My son is a gamer and a computer wiz, he's 9, so I figured I would let him look at your site in case my old eyes were missing something. He could not navigate it well either, the first thing he looked for was a listing of all games offered at your site, which he never found. Ok, so the actions of a 9 year old may not mean much, but a lot of your site visitors are probably pre-teens to teens, and if they cannot navigate your site well..... you can believe those of us in the older generation can't. And my son navigates all sorts of gaming sites (that I approve for him of course), if he doesn’t find your site easy to navigate, then most will do as he did. Leave and go to their favorites. You want to make YOUR site one of the favorites. Your site really needs to be easier to navigate. Making the forum link more prominent and putting the forum on your own site instead of an alternative site would help as well. If young gamers can find your forum, and meet other gamers with same interests, then yes you can make much more than 500 per month. But you have to provide them with a reason to stay, and you have to make it easier to navigate. I don't want to sound harsh, but the site is really too busy on the main page. It's a good site though, I would LOVE to have a site like that myself for my son to run as some of the games are child friendly.....you have a good idea there, I just feel that you would do much better if you cleaned it up a bit. Yes, your adsense ads are in the proper positions for content sites.... but are those placements really suitable for a gaming site? You want visitors to stay, and come back again. You have everything in place to make that happen, but you do not make it easy for them to do so. So in short, yes I feel you could make 100 to 500 per month with your site, but I wouldn’t waste money in advertising yet until your site is cleaned up a bit and easier to navigate. It would likely be a waste of advertising dollars. But then again, I don’t know games, I do not play anything but Slingo occasionally with my daughters and mom, or Dofus with my son and husband….so I may be wrong. But if I could find Tetris on your site, I would visit more often for an easy and quick 15-minute break from programming (Slingo is not good for a quick programming mind break). I would be considered a typical visitor, from the older generation….and I do not see Pac-Man, Tetris or Centipede and I find no easy way to find out if you even have any games LIKE them, much less those. So I would stick with Marbles for my lil 15 minutes stress relieving online breaks, and wouldn’t give your site another thought after leaving it. These are just my opinions as a non-gamer with a gamer for a son. We both say that it’s a good site, but that it is not very visitor friendly.