ioi said:
I'm sure every person who owns a website would love to do that - unfortunately advertisers dictate how much they want to pay and ad rates are low. I really don't think ads are excessive on this site, we have 3-4 main ads on most pages then a few supplementary ones on longer pages like forums and the homepage. Go to Kotaku, Joystiq, Destructoid, Box Office Mojo - any other site of a similar size to ours and you'll see just as many ads. Unfortunately it is what we need to do to survive. Do you honestly think if I could put one 10x10 pixel ad at the top of the page which generates as much revenue as the 4-5 we have at the moment that I wouldn't do it?? Most ads are paid per view. Pay per click ads don't tend to do well these days since people rarely click. Pay per view ads work by putting images and logos around, increasing awareness so many companies go for this approach but they pay fairly low per view but when you get lots of views they perform better than the per click stuff which doesn't do well at all (google adsense is useless and i have tried it many times in different ways). Don't go clicking on loads of ads - that will just result in us getting banned from ad networks and make things worse!! As has been said before, this Amazon store could more than support vgchartz if enough people used it. Similarly, I am negotiating with publishers some high-paying videogame stuff in the near future which should work better on the site. |
I guess this means I'll be making my next purchase from there. Out of curiosity, is vgchartz your full time job, or something you do on the side?
