My First Website Launch
I have finally launched my first website (non-blog website). I will shamelessly plug the website now: mygamingspace.com. Basically the site consists of flash games you can either play on the site itself, or you can also take the code with you and embed it into your own blog or myspace page (hence the name).
I bought the site from my friend. At the time of purchase, there was not a whole bunch of traffic because my friend had not done any promoting on the site what-so-ever. All of the traffic came from organic Google search and the few people he had told about the site. Regardless, it was doing pretty well for not having any promotion. When I first saw the site, I knew it had potential. It already had a great interface and many, many games (280+). It was so simple to add more games to the list, and even easier for users to take these games and embed them into whatever they want.
This was a very important purchase to me because it is my first real, non-blog site that I am running. It is the beginning of what I hope will be many more successful websites. I am already thinking of a million different ideas of how I want to promote the site. The first thing I did was have my most recent game submitted to digg.com (here’s the digg link). Almost immediately the game shot to the front page and within 20 hours it was at 1000+ diggs. Here is the game that was so popular. This game shot up to the most popular game on my site within an hour of the story hitting the front page. The number of members to the site greatly increased, and I am hoping these are going to be returning users. Regardless, the story will provide a boost in traffic due to all the back links I received. My friend told me that when a gaming site hits front page, a large amount of the traffic generated (which would usually die back down after a few days), would most likely stick. This is very good news for my site.
In addition to my game being dugg, I am also contacting other gaming and relevant sites for link exchanges. This should also help boost consistent traffic to the site. There are also other ways of promoting flash gaming sites such as this. Since it is so easy to embed my games into your MySpace page, I will contact everyone I know who has MySpace to try to convince them to put a game on their page. I will also be creating a page dedicated to the site. Social networking will be an important factor in promoting this site.
Overall I believe the site was a good purchase. I will have to wait to see if the traffic will rise permanently because of the digg story. If anyone has any promotional ideas, they would be much appreciated. Also if you would like to do a link exchange, please email me or comment to this post. I will have an update on how the site is doing in a few weeks. Wish me luck!
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