I heard Google is a good source of traffic, but how about for arcade sites, I have an arcade site which is about 1 month old, it is my first real website that I plan to make money with, and my question is, do arcade sites get good traffic from search engines? I get about 4k+ uniques a day, but only about 5-6 are from google and 10-11 are from msn. My question is for people who are firmiliar arcade sites that aren't in the "sandbox" or whatever they call it, how much of your traffic is from Search engines? Is 5-6 a day (which ends up being 0.00% on awstats) from google normal or will i get more from them? Any input is greatly appriciated [ EDIT ] By the way, google just danced my site and it got PR 5, so I'm worried that i'm no longer in the sandbox and that it will be this way forever. do pr 5 sites fall in the sandbox?
PR and the sandbox don't really have anything in common. Google can be a great source of traffic for arcade games, but I wouldn't expect to see a lot of traffic in the first 3-4 months. Try to build backlinks slowly and make sure you your pages are google-friendly.
Arcade sites do not earn much anyway... they hog up a lot of bandwidth and in my honest opinion are not worth it.
I would have agreed three years ago, but bandwidth is very cheap today. I make about $2 for every 1GB my arcade site consumes. Just about every hosting package charges less than $1/1GB today.
I'm using 6 gigs of bw a day, but I don't have any ads yet, what kind of ads you using that you get 2$ per gig?
What I mean is since there are so many turnkey arcades running around the internet, most would be considered duplicates so some search engines will consider it spam and just ignore it, unless of course you get some links or add some unique content