Official Arcade Webmasters Thread

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by FIVE539, Dec 29, 2007.

  1. arcadesstuff

    arcadesstuff Banned

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    #541
    I have a question for all those arcade webmasters having an arcade with 1000 UV / day:

    How much money should i invest if i want to reach such a traffic rate?
    And how should i invest those money?
     
    arcadesstuff, Aug 19, 2008 IP
  2. chrisfr

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    #542
    Well, you do not have to invest money but time.

    Add regularly new games with your own text and in a few month, you will get positions.
     
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  3. arcadesstuff

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    #543
    How about traffic?

    How will people find about the site you are trying to get on top of their search engine results if you only add games to your site?
     
    arcadesstuff, Aug 19, 2008 IP
  4. digitali16

    digitali16 Active Member

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    #544
    Hey Guys

    I would love to trade quality traffic with anyone here who owns an arcade regardless of the volume. We are close to getting our members section back online and I expect that to help our traffic increase on the site even more ( 1400 registered members ). I am also continuing to add new trading partners every day.We are now hosting a lot of popular games on our site. Anyone who wants to trade more traffic with us can do so easy by adding plugs to some of these more popular games after you signup in our traffic trading system.

    NO your visitor will not go to another intermission page where I send them on to another site and get credits for myself. Your visitors will land on the game play page of my site. We can plug games out and host them at the same time with our custom script. Here are a few popular ones to think about plugging for more traffic out to our site.

    Megaman PX
    http://www.gubug.com/action-games/Megaman-Px.html
    Super smash Flash Bros
    http://www.gubug.com/kid-games/Super...lash-Bros.html
    Hulk Central smash Down
    http://www.gubug.com/features sele...mash-Down.html
    Naughty Classroom
    http://www.gubug.com/weird-games/Naughty-Classroom.html
    Vanessa Naughty Pics
    http://www.gubug.com/features sele...ghty-Pics.html
    Spongebob Bustup
    http://www.gubug.com/kid-games/SpongeBob-Bust-Up.html

    every game you see on my site with a hosted link on the intermission page
    just below that ad. You can plug out to my site and a player will land directly on the game page earning you 1 credit in my system. Most everything on my site including games that I have plugged out are hosted now at the same time.

    Also I want to say that I have really been happy with the response to our traffic trading script and thanks a lot to all our active partners. We tried very hard to make sure that EVERYONE will receive there 1:1 share as fast as possible infact you will likely get atleast 1:1.1 in our system no matter how big or small your sites volume of traffic to us is. We have sent out over 6200+ visitors to our partners since coming back online only a little over 1 week ago. I invite everyone who has not yet done so to visit our site and trade arcade traffic with us today.
     
    digitali16, Aug 19, 2008 IP
  5. chrisfr

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    #545
    When you have the content (a regular and unique content), the traffic will follow...

    if you buy the same gamepacks that everybody has on their arcade sites... well, it will be hard to get good positions and you will have to pay for the traffic.
     
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  6. infozeek

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    #546
    Really interested in trying this niche after reading this huge thread :)
     
    infozeek, Aug 20, 2008 IP
  7. JoRd

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    #547
    Just adding games won't make your site go up the Google rankings regardless whether their unique or not, been unique will however give you good viral traffic if the games any good, which can lead to visitors and backlinks from other sites which is exactly what you want and what Google loves to see

    You need to learn to Search Engine Optimize your sites correctly both on and off page. For a keyword that's not competitive at all, you can rank first in Google simply by having the correct page title, but I'm not going to go into the depths of SEO as I personally aren't a Guru [yet ;)] and if i did try, I'd be here all day.
     
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  8. Absilon

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    #548
    Hello fellow arcade owners
    Great thread! Particularly for the beginners in this industry.

    I own a medium sized arcade as well as several smaller sized niche arcades.

    I have recently started a gaming resources site in an attempt to put together a thorough listing of useful resources for arcade owners, game developers and gamers. Some of you may find the webmasters section useful as it lists advertising networks, arcade banner exchanges, arcade scripts, web hosting and more.

    Feel free to add other resources to the directory including your game related websites but keep in mind that our criteria for acceptance is very strict, with most sites being rejected, since we only want the best sites listed. To get listed your site must be a PR2 or above, be of outstanding quality, the site description must be unique, if you use the same description you used on your website, your listing will be rejected. For more details see our full list of requirements here: http://gamingresourcecenter.com/rules.php

    Also, if any of the more experienced arcade webmasters wish to contribute a good quality article to the site I will be happy to link back to your gaming related site from the footer of the article.

    Have a wonderful day!
     
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  9. Mess

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  10. wildfxp

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    #550
    Hey everyone at Talk Arcade,

    My friends and I are new to the gaming community, but we have gotten 2 flash game sites up.

    http://www.pinkyarcade.com
    and
    http://www.clearlygaming.com

    Quote:
    http://www.pinkyarcade.com
    Text: Games That Will Even Use Your Pinkies

    http://www.clearlygaming.com
    Text: Clearly Your Needs For Fun
    We're looking forward to exchanging links with any type of arcade site, but to top that off, we're giving an extra bonus of 50 points. This way you can have some fun with some extra traffic that the sites will send to you

    Anyways, the two game sites are new, but we're heavily marketing the sites and we're going to continue to do so until the traffic is high and steady.

    The biggest marketing technique is that the sites are going to hold a huge sponsored contest and items that the team is purchasing to provide to huge game players . Some of the items are going to be gas gift cards (since gas is so expensive), virtual credit gift cards, apple ipods, iphones, etc. This is going to start at the end of this month or the beginning of September. We're hoping that we could gather as much link exchanges and communicate with other arcades

    PM me for the trade or sign up
     
    wildfxp, Aug 20, 2008 IP
  11. mivent

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    #551
    Nice site wildfxp - good luck. I just signed up for a link exchange for one of my sites on pinkyarcade.
     
    mivent, Aug 20, 2008 IP
  12. GamesPond

    GamesPond Well-Known Member

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    #552
    If anyone is interested I am selling off some of my domain names. Check them out at sedo.

    GamesPond.net - I had the site up live with phparcadescript installed. But I deleted the folder on my server by mistake,lol...cant really be bothered to get it all back on again.
    this domain comes with the phparcadescript license also.
    Check it out on dnscoop.com for all the details..

    KingfishArcade.com - currently running the pnp.bigfishgames satilite script and a home page ,getting a sale here and there and about 20-30c a day on google...havent done much with this site at all. Kinda installed and left alone. it's a catchy domain though...

    anyways their on sale at sedo.com make an offer....all offers will be looked at :)
    Regards,
    Wazza
    other domain names at sedo -
    fitnessfriend.org
    gamesheppard.com
    justafather.com
    namespond.com
    wazaweb.com
    ecommerce-team.com
     
    GamesPond, Aug 20, 2008 IP
  13. Adwords.

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    #553
    wanna buy http://www.GameClearly.com off me?
     
    Adwords., Aug 20, 2008 IP
  14. JoRd

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    #554
    You should really change those anchor texts mate...

    'Games That Will Even Use Your Pinkies'

    I can't imagine any Google searches coming from those phrases, have you done any SEO at all?

    An alternative could be:

    'Pinkies Free Flash Games' if you were looking to rank for 'free flash games' however I wouldn't recommend that yet as its quite a competitive keyword.

    If you need any help with it, just give me a shout and I'll see what I can do to help you out a little or just submit a site review to the forum in my signature and I'll take a look at most of the aspects in the site.
     
    JoRd, Aug 21, 2008 IP
  15. ColorWP.com

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    #555
    What script do you guys recommend (free), because I've used a few and they all got my site hacked?
     
    ColorWP.com, Aug 21, 2008 IP
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  17. thinkfast

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    #557
    hii all yesterday i wana try to running arcade game and i try free Agares Media script and maybe if my site success i will upgrade it

    my site is gameaddicted.info and as arcade webnewbiesters i hope i`ll learn much from all of arcade webmasters ;)
     
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  18. wildfxp

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    #558
    @mivent - THANK YOU, it took forever to get everything done with my team :p

    @Adwords. - Thank you for the offer, but I'm good :)

    @Jord - I have thought about the "TEXT" problem, but I'm not going to worry much about it right now as I'm not looking to have a high rank in Google. I'm just trying to get the word out of the arcades, so people could enjoy playing games :) But I do thank you for the suggestion and for your help!
     
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    #559
    Hey,

    many thanks for this great thread. I've learnt a great deal!!!
     
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  20. Adwords.

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    #560
    Hey arcade owners;

    Just thought i'd let you know about this new service i'm currently offering.... Only selling 8 copies of this game specifically so it doesn't get saturated...

    Sponsor this game with YOUR ARCADE WEBSITE (Flash Slot machine game, very professional/clean) for $15.

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=994454


    Enjoy & Good luck promoting your arcades :)
     
    Adwords., Aug 23, 2008 IP