05-15-2008, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 17
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I'm not sure what your motivation was for this post but here are my observations on some of the topics in your post
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How many of visitors you got will NOT play any other game and will NOT go back/forward to your partners sites?
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This is true, there will be a percentage of users coming to your site that will not them subsequently click through to someone else's site. There is however a percentage of users that will click through to more than one other persons site, maybe 2 or three sites.
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Search engines traffic? Good one, but if you are not no1 for 'games' there will not be much, you will still be short.
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Just because you are not #1 for a popular term doesn't mean you don't get a lot of search traffic. Yes #1 spots give a good about, but so does the long tail. If you get just a few clicks per day for thousands of smaller terms, it ads up.
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And all this means you have no hosted games, because you have to send visitors back, not to keep it on your site.
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Booty arcade does have hosted games.
http://www.bootyarcade.com/hosted
In fact, if he didn't have hosted games, he wouldn't get nearly as much traffic as I bet a lot of this referral traffic comes from game plugs.
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Question: how will you accomplish this?
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You forgot about direct traffic. Once you become popular and big you will retain a good number of people coming back directly to you because you become a recognized name and url.
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Site In Out freshcoolgames.com 857 1017 ... I can see everything except 1:1 traffic exchange.
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Freshcoolgames.com is my site and while my own stats show that I am sending in more than I get back I consider this to be an acceptable margin of error and I know that I am not being cheated by BootyArcade. The way the link tracking works is via URL referrals, these are not 100% accurate as sometimes this referral information does not get passed correctly within the browser clients header information. Nothing Booty can do about it, it's not intentional, I have seen the same behavior from every referral link exchange I have ever been in and verified it will exchanges between my own sites and crunching my logs.
Bottom line is I have sent Booty a bunch of traffic and Booty has sent me a bunch back, we both win. It's not like other 1:1 exchanges I have signed up for where I send a bunch of traffic and get nothing back. Those are the ones that should be called out. If I was ranking people to trade traffic with, Booty would be one of my recommendations.
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