Hello, My arcade, play games online is having about 3k uniuques/day with 6k+ pageloads. My earnings however are very bad. With adsense, I'm earning 2-4$/day. I've tryed VCM too. I've seen people earn with arcades 1$eCPM, but I don't, I get only free ads loading on my site(what's the secret here? should i remove some ads and wich ones? my ctr is high :\ ) Casale media didn't accept me. What options do I have guys? I've seen arcades make 8$+ with this kind of traffic, but not me? Any tips? Thanks alot!
Have you tried to put some CPA offers from affiliate networks like maxbounty? For many sites CPA offer works much better than Adsense, I suppose.
Well I don't know what CPA offers would convert for arcades. I think most of my visitors are just bored and want to kill some time, not go shopping on arcade sites. I'll give it a try though. But I'm still looking for some tips guys
Well for example, I've seen someone earn 48$ for 41k pageviews with VCM. I DON'T earn that much with vcm. MY cpm right now is like 0.30$ And I don't know how to get that higher. VCM itself isn't any help neether, They have never replyed to one of my mails.
Sanzo, The Ads by Google on your home page are unattractive. From a visitor's point of view, I am more likely to click on a Bidvertiser ad (I actually did click on one of them) than on a Google ad as displayed on your home page. The Bidvertiser ad I clicked on led me to www.amusedgamer.com The homepage of this website has two rows of Google ads which are far more attractive than yours. You may make adjustments to your Google ads along this line.
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With VCM, i'm sure there is a way to configure which types of ads are shown - do this and either disable PSA's (public service ads/free ads) or opt to show ads from another provider when VCM have none to serve to your site. I usually recommend DirectMedia (http://direct.rightmedia.com) as an alternative to VCM so you could perhaps give them a bash? - CPM isn't fantastic, but it would at least give you extra options. In my experience, adsense doesn't convert particularly well for arcades; especially since they began enforcing rules banning the use of pictures next to ads (which used to be the golden goose for arcade webmasters; since basically it enabled them to present a google ad as though it were a game). For a while YPN were reportedly paying out very well but by all accounts standards have slipped there (don't take my word for it; i'm in the UK so couldn't use YPN myself) My advice would be to scrap some of your google ads and replace them with CPM ads; using google as the alternative when your CPM companies can't serve ads to you. Be sure to place several CPM ads on your page (ensuring its not too OTT/obstructive) as with 4 ad spots, 6k impressions becomes 24k impressions. You could also look into alternative means of monetizing your arcades. There are several CPA programs based around downloadable games. I've seen arcades be very successful in implementing this as an addition section of their site, or simply having a list of top downloadable games somewhere. I might be wrong but your site looks as though its running on phpArcadeScript with a custom layout - if so, check out their support forums in the marketplace area, as I beleive someone there is selling a game sponsorship mod. Putting this in place will allow you to sell sponsored links on each of your games pages, which could be another potential source of income, particularly if your traffic remains consistant and you have decent PR. Hope this helps
I have an arcade too with about 1,200 visitors a day and it also makes about $2 to $3 dollars a day. I don't think you are dong anything worng. Its just there's so many arcades that the clicks are not worth jack. Your best bet not to bother to try to bring up what the clicks are worth, but to just look for other ways to profit by sitewides, independent banners, and even more traffic.
Hey, Thanks for your reply. I have a few questions though. Is there any way to see if VCM has no ads availeble for me? With some sort of script so I can then show other ads? If I undersstand well that's whzat you are suggesting. Also, I will look into right media, thanks for suggestin, I hope it has more options like you say, compared to VCM. My arcade does run on phpAS, and as my traffic is growing, I will launch a new version soon, with gamesponsoring. How much do you recommend charging for a link? I'm not sure, as they will be lifetime. I'm also going to try the cpa ads, for downloadable games. I already have an azoogle account, and I'll look into that. Are there any other cpa options? Problem I'm also having with VCM is that it's only serving usa ads. So I'm looking for a cpa network that has ads for most of the world at nice ecpm rates. @interpan: do your recommend me placing text or image ads then? I only see 1 ad block on the other site. Thanks to everyone for replying. I will look into all the suggestions
Sanzo, The other site has two blocks of Google ads. If your website would have one block of Google ads, use text. If your website would have two blocks of Google ads, use text for both blocks, or use text for one block and image(s) for the other. On the website www.amusedgamer.com , each block of Google ads displays both text and image ads alternately. You may also try this option.
You might try playing around with ad placement, colors, etc. I've been wanting to get into the arcade business myself, but after hearing what people are getting for the traffic they receive, i'm having some reservations.
Well, i have turned on image and text ads, with different color palets for the text ads, but only image ads show up, i'll try only text for this week. Thanks for help guys!
Try to blend the google ads into the content, and use text ads since you'll get more links on it (more selection).