I just released a game couple weeks ago. It's called MobsTurf. And i'm having hard time getting members on it, I would want to held contents in the future that can make my members earn real cash, gadgets, or maybe something else. So I'm wondering if do you guys know where to build a lot of traffic for games like mine? for free if possible of course. You can also join it to see how the game works if you want to. I also add new updates every week for the comfort of the players, so this game will be really active. For now, I have at least 10-15 active players in the game, but I really need more because this kind of my game is for at least have enough active users to feel the thrill. Can you guys give me advice on this? mobsturf.com is the site if you want to check it out.
Try getting higher in the search engine rankings for your terms and getting some natural traffic/members.
I would start out by building links. More links = more authority in the eyes of search engines. Also, you will have a good amount of traffic coming through all the links you establish, as long as they are quality links. You can build traffic for free, but it sure is not easy. It could take months to just figure out what keywords you should be targeting. Then you have to build links to your site using those keywords. Repeat that process a few hundred times and you'll begin to natural traffic come from all over the internet, over time.
You can join gaming forums to announce to everybody about your game. that is a good start. then, make videos and articles about it in social networking sites like facebook and twitter. Make sure you're friends with people interested in games.
i actually did that, my twitter blew over 500 followers in 2 weeks, and my facebook page got over 100 fans, but, its still growing slow. hmm, i wonder what am i doing wrong? >_< any good advice?
I would try to make some gameplay videos, upload them on youtube and share the link via your twitter/facebook page. Also you can try to buy some advertising in flash games (you know when you want to play a free flash game there is always an ad before the actual game). I have no idea how much does something like that costs but maybe it's worth a try.
In getting higher ranking in search engine you can try to post your games in the those social media networking like facebook,twitter and some other..
how to put the game on facebook apps? and probably since facebook is #1 social networking, putting game in there must be expensive. >_<
It means that if people buy something in your game at facebook then you split the revenue... (but that's just a guess)