Ok, I've been playing *cough* Gaia Online for a while now. I kept seeing how active it's community is and I never really got as to why that is. Now that I've been playing it, I understand 100% why that is. It's because it's a grinding site. No matter what you do, playing games, chatting, surfing the site, you earn gold that can be used to spruce up your avatar (your toon). I think alot of people really get hooked on those types of things.
Now on another token, that's probably a really good and efficient way to earn money with ad's on the site. Think about it, people are addicted to your site and spend long hours on it chatting away with the rest of the community there. It's like a drug. But it's free to the community, but the developers are raking in the cash. It's a smart move. If I could pull something like that off I would do it in a heartbeat.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Gaia Online
When I saw how popular and active www.GaiaOnline.com is, I was wondering how exactly that got so popular. With "Who is Online? - 59795 users. (53630 visible, 3127 hidden, 3038 guests)." at the time I checked, that's roughly the same amount of users as www.plentyoffish.com (POF), and incase anyone didn't know POF makes over $10,000 per day from Adsense alone. So I would imagine that Gaia makes a similar amount, but they also have an online store among other things so they could have the potential to make alot more then that even. So what's the story behind Gaia? Did it spread via word of mouth? Did they advertise?
I gave Gaia a 4-hour test to see how it goes. From what I can tell is that it's a grinding site. You surf on it, you earn gold. You play games on it, you earn gold. You walk around in the virtual universe and can find gold. With that gold you can tweak your character's appearance and such. Almost makes it feel like Pokemon's "gotta catch'm all!" type of thing. I can see why it's addicting and why it gets people.
I gave Gaia a 4-hour test to see how it goes. From what I can tell is that it's a grinding site. You surf on it, you earn gold. You play games on it, you earn gold. You walk around in the virtual universe and can find gold. With that gold you can tweak your character's appearance and such. Almost makes it feel like Pokemon's "gotta catch'm all!" type of thing. I can see why it's addicting and why it gets people.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
SiteFaust SEO
One of my friends made a site at www.sitefaust.com, it's pretty nice. I'm helping him out with it. Basically it's a SEO community site that is 100% free for anyone to use. It's somewhat like DigitalPoint which is also a good one. I've always liked started out in a new community, after a while it makes me feel like an elder of the community, you know.. one of the first ones there. He's also made a successful guild at www.legionofsteel.org, and it's pretty active which has about 50-100 active people on the forums at any given time. I think he has a gift for charisma, who knows lol. Besides, in the long run for more of a selfish note.. it gets my site out there more, so I'll be sure to stop by at both places. :)
Cheers,
Peachy
Cheers,
Peachy
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Organic Traffic vs Viral Traffic?
A lot of people have no clue what the differences are between Organic Traffic and Viral Traffic. So to give a better understanding of the two, I'll write up a summary of them.
What is Organic Traffic?
Organic Traffic is when people use the search engines and/or links to get to your site. It's pretty simple.
What is Viral Traffic?
Viral Traffic is a whole other thing to tackle. It's usually a bit more involved. I'll give you an example. Let's say you have a company that puts out a little link code that keeps track of people's site statistics. People put that little statistic code on their site which also act's as a link back to you. It spreads without you doing anything.
You just basically have to set it up and then cross your fingers.Another good example would be something much more simple. Let's say you have a blog and you find some unique and popular information. You write about it, and the news spreads. People are quoting and linking back to your site as the source of information. You are not manually going around and placing links to your site, people are doing it for you.
What is Organic Traffic?
Organic Traffic is when people use the search engines and/or links to get to your site. It's pretty simple.
What is Viral Traffic?
Viral Traffic is a whole other thing to tackle. It's usually a bit more involved. I'll give you an example. Let's say you have a company that puts out a little link code that keeps track of people's site statistics. People put that little statistic code on their site which also act's as a link back to you. It spreads without you doing anything.
You just basically have to set it up and then cross your fingers.Another good example would be something much more simple. Let's say you have a blog and you find some unique and popular information. You write about it, and the news spreads. People are quoting and linking back to your site as the source of information. You are not manually going around and placing links to your site, people are doing it for you.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Making a Blog :)
There's actually several methods. The easiest method is to just go to http://www.blogspot.com/ / http://www.blogger.com/, which is free. That is the easiest method. You can be up and running within minutes of starting it. Although, for the best method for more advanced users would be to get a hosting service and domain name (yourname.com). Therefore you won't be under anyone's thumb, but your own, so to speak.
From what I've read, is that you can place adsense ad's on your Blogspot/Blogger blogs (there might be a service for it right in those blog hosting company's). I've been using my own '.com', so my knowledge with the adsense on those free blog hosting sites is a bit limited. Last I heard, is that you can be earning revenue (some nice side money) from just having those ad's on your blog. Imagine earning $5 bucks even before you wake up in the morning. Sure it's not much, but it feels pretty good in my opinion. There's people out there with blog's (check out http://www.problogger.net/ for one example) that earn much more then that.
A good rule of thumb is to have your blog have a focus on what it's about. Is it about tropical vacations? Computer tech? Fishing? You get the point. The reason behind that is if someone wants to read some perspectives concerning a topic of interest, they can check your blog out and review information and with that other information concerning similar topics.
From what I've read, is that you can place adsense ad's on your Blogspot/Blogger blogs (there might be a service for it right in those blog hosting company's). I've been using my own '.com', so my knowledge with the adsense on those free blog hosting sites is a bit limited. Last I heard, is that you can be earning revenue (some nice side money) from just having those ad's on your blog. Imagine earning $5 bucks even before you wake up in the morning. Sure it's not much, but it feels pretty good in my opinion. There's people out there with blog's (check out http://www.problogger.net/ for one example) that earn much more then that.
A good rule of thumb is to have your blog have a focus on what it's about. Is it about tropical vacations? Computer tech? Fishing? You get the point. The reason behind that is if someone wants to read some perspectives concerning a topic of interest, they can check your blog out and review information and with that other information concerning similar topics.
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