The Arcade Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'General Business' started by proxywhereabouts, Sep 11, 2008.

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    As you might know, I am mostly been known to involve so much in proxies. Recently I have found arcade niche to be fun and then now I am a proud owner of 1 arcade site. Thinking about expanding my network maybe to 3 or 4 more arcade sites.

    So, I went and search for any arcade discussion thread, like one for proxy but found none. So I guess it would be fine to create a thread dedicated to arcade webmasters.

    So, if any of you are an arcade webmasters, please do drop by and share with us. I would want to know what other arcade veterans has to say about this niche.

    What script do you use? Arcadem? GSS? AVarcade? PHPAS? or others?
    What earn you most? Adsense? Adtoll? AdEngange? Big Fish? Mochi?
     
    proxywhereabouts, Sep 11, 2008 IP
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    I used to have some arcade sites using AVarcade but they weren't very profitable in the long run. Traffic was high too, so all they did was eat up my bandwidth. Arcade traffic is tough to monetize in my opinion, but if you can make it profitable more power to you. :)

    I got a TON of traffic using those banner exchange trades and SERP traffic by SEOing the site. Arcade traffic and entertainment traffic is pretty easy to drive, just hard to make money from.

    Good luck. ;)
     
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    I'm planning to drive more traffic to the site so that it will be easier to apply to big CPM advertising company. Most of them just declined my application just because I did not have enough traffic.


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    Surf around and saw this article. It was an interesting read.

     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    I'm using www.ArcadeScript.com coz its stand up among other script.
    I'm earning using adsense and adbrite
     
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    I'm using Agares' Arcadem Pro at the moment. For my additional arcade network, I might be using the free arcade script. Any advise whether I should or should not go for the free script?
     
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    If you go for free scripts, make sure they don't have any major security holes. That's really the only problem I've ever experienced with free scripts.

    And for those CPM networks, yeah you'll need ALOT of traffic. I got denied on a site that did 6k uniques per day.
     
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    Although I'm tempted to create a couple more arcade site, I am still try to come up with some good domain.
    And I still got some other project that need to finish before making that step.
     
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    Banner Exchanges

    Topsites/Lists

    Arcade Scripts

    Game Portals

    Arcade Owner Forums

    Other

    Content

    Ad Networks

    Affiliate Sales


    Anyone want to add something? ;)
     
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    That's a great list, man. Although I'm pretty much done with arcade sites (heh), I'm sure that will help someone out for sure.
     
    SK4life, Sep 13, 2008 IP
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    For for your info, I will be doing a service soon catering arcade owners. For any of you who want to keep your site updated but have no time to do so, I am offering my service to do all that for you.

    For $18, I will update your site up to 4 times a day so averaging 120 new games for a month!!
    If any of you who are interested in doing this, do contact me.

    Since this is not BST section, DO NOT post anything about this here. I will create a new thread in BST section for this.

    There will be bulk discount order.
     
    proxywhereabouts, Sep 14, 2008 IP
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