freeg131: Philip Gamble

I was just taking a look at my ProjectWonderful account today which reminded me of my domain GameMaker8.com

The site contains 3 ProjectWonderful ads and the content (first 200 words or so) of the latest 10 posts on GameMaker Blog from its RSS feed. The stats provided by PW show that over the past month the site has been getting an average of about 9 unique visitors a day.

I was quite mystified to discover it was receiving that amount of traffic, and even more so to discover that I appear to have neglected to install Google Analytics on the page so I have next to no information on how people found the site - although my bet is that 90%+ is from Google searches.

I registered the domain in early March this year when HostMySite were offering ridiculously cheap domains for a short period of time (they were $4). I was partly influenced by the fact that GameMaker4 - GameMaker7 were all registered and parked at PPC pages, I assume because of the number of searches made for people looking for various versions of the software. Also I can use the domain to drive traffic to GameMaker blog, and in 2009, when GameMaker 8 is due to be released, I can probably knock up a quick mini-site.

I can’t find a way to see the total amount made from one ad spot with ProjectWonderful, but currently GameMaker8.com is running at about $0.05 a day :P. Pretty pathetic really, but from just 9 visitors very good.

Analytics has now been added.

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In May advertising revenues from GameMaker Blog were $11.54 + £5.00

Quite a low click-through ratio is being achieved with AdSense, when compared with the format installed on my Aidy Boothroyd soundboard, despite the fact that it is currently displaying ads for computer hardware, limo hire and loft conversions. I guess moving the ads above the fold so they are immediately visible when the GameMaker Blog loads could have a big effect on the number of clicks, so I have moved them above the ProjectWonderful ad which is sold by time period.

Earnings from my websites about Cassiobury Park and Stencyl for the past couple of months can be seen below - the revenue is all from a company called Matched which pay £3 for each page they can match an ad to per month (up to a maximum of 5 pages).

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