Saturday, February 24, 2007
My appologies
Just want to appologise for not posting for a while. Not much has happened around here except that I failed to double my traffic. Not sure why, everything that seemed to be working just stopped for a while.
Game for a link got lots of links to start but after a while barely any takers and I noticed a sales drop. Guess people didn't like the idea of paying for a game that is free to other people (the Ad was on my home page).
I also removed the Flash games after a sale drop, I was worried that they were distracting people away from my own games. Also there just aren't enough shooter games out I can keep adding to the site every week. Maybe every month at best.
SEO stuff hasn't worked, simply not moving up (or down) in the SERPs no matter what I try just lately.
My total traffic currently sits at about 2400 distinct hosts per day.
Honestly I'm starting to believe the only really efficient way to spend my time is to finish another game. After I've finished my current development contract(which is for a really cool space shooter btw) I'll finish off my Action RPG. Hoping that will be done sometime in or just after April.
Game for a link got lots of links to start but after a while barely any takers and I noticed a sales drop. Guess people didn't like the idea of paying for a game that is free to other people (the Ad was on my home page).
I also removed the Flash games after a sale drop, I was worried that they were distracting people away from my own games. Also there just aren't enough shooter games out I can keep adding to the site every week. Maybe every month at best.
SEO stuff hasn't worked, simply not moving up (or down) in the SERPs no matter what I try just lately.
My total traffic currently sits at about 2400 distinct hosts per day.
Honestly I'm starting to believe the only really efficient way to spend my time is to finish another game. After I've finished my current development contract(which is for a really cool space shooter btw) I'll finish off my Action RPG. Hoping that will be done sometime in or just after April.
Bye bye adsense.
Adsense is junk.
Honestly, since getting it back up to $300/month it's dropped consistantly down to only about $75 now. Number of impressions the same, % of clicks the same, getting similar ads as before. Just earning much less per click. Basically, Google is smart pricing me.
Smart pricing means Google decides how much you actually get. If the advertiser payed 50c for that click you can get anywhere from 49c to zero based purely on Google's discretion. So essentially if they felt like it Google could just not pay me for any of the clicks and keep all the revenue for itself.
Let's imagine I was a high end AdSense earner and went on holiday? I could come back and find that Google took the $10,000 for this week and there would be nothing I could do to get it back since it was never 'technically' mine.
I'm sick of this BS, I'm removing AdSense from my site.
Honestly, since getting it back up to $300/month it's dropped consistantly down to only about $75 now. Number of impressions the same, % of clicks the same, getting similar ads as before. Just earning much less per click. Basically, Google is smart pricing me.
Smart pricing means Google decides how much you actually get. If the advertiser payed 50c for that click you can get anywhere from 49c to zero based purely on Google's discretion. So essentially if they felt like it Google could just not pay me for any of the clicks and keep all the revenue for itself.
Let's imagine I was a high end AdSense earner and went on holiday? I could come back and find that Google took the $10,000 for this week and there would be nothing I could do to get it back since it was never 'technically' mine.
I'm sick of this BS, I'm removing AdSense from my site.
