any1 knows a good and effective means of promoting a game site. Specifically online games only.
goodboy18 0 Light Poster
Dani 4,310 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
It seems to me like your target audience would be high school and college people. (College folk have nothing better to do between classes, hehe) So now that you know your target audience, how can you reach them? Find other forums targeting the same age bracket, which don't offer online games, and post post post! Link to your site in your forum signature ;)
bobchrist 7 Posting Pro in Training
Joining gaming community forums/social sites could be beneficial. Here are the list of gaming you might be interested in to join; http://www.rotorblog.com/2008/09/21/24-social-networking-site-for-gamers/
mackone 55 Posting Pro
I think a Press Release will help, also get in contact with some gaming webmasters with authority. If you can spark a few discussions here and there, you bound to catch some attention. Participate in gaming forums. You can also romote in youtube and in social networking sites...
Robdale 39 Practically a Master Poster
You can use all types of promotion techniques, but to make the visitors stay on your site you need your site to be look nice and attractive.
InsightsDigital 57 Posting Virtuoso
I also recomend joining gaming related offline communities so you can promote your site offline. Try to see if you can be part of internet marketing/virtual world/gaming conferences and speak there.
ruby.mein 0 Junior Poster in Training
Promoting a game site is also the same as promoting a site and
SEO will help you. Its a process of improving the volume and quality of traffic of a website on search engines. Just make sure to do both On-Page and Off-Page Optimization.
vincent2085 -32 Junior Poster in Training
jusvie 0 Junior Poster
SEO helps. It is a process of improving the volume and quality of traffic of a website on search engines via organic traffic.
crimgirl 0 Junior Poster
With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your site Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.
And as Cscagal have siad, find your targeted audience is also essential!
mithu143 0 Newbie Poster
The best way to promote and get traffic for online gaming sites is PPC campaigns from Google Adwords, Yahoo publisher network, MSN, Bidvertiser or Adbrite. You can also try buying cheap traffic from StumbleUpon or try putting banners or other ads on other famous online gaming sites.
crackerjack1 0 Newbie Poster
Yes one of the best ways is by banner advertising, but Google and Yahoo are very expensive and don't really target users that effectively. Thus you end up with alot of click through's and little registrations to show for it.
Try a company called 'advertise your game' They specialize with browser based games and have good performance results to show.
Some advice for free promotion would be to contact all the gaming portals who deal with browser based games, there's A LOT I have been dealing with PBBG's for 3 years now.
If anyone would like more info please ask.
reno27 0 Newbie Poster
Online community is a must since your game is online. You can go to schools or colleges too if you want to give brochures (though I think it's an old-fashioned marketing). You can always use social networking like facebook or friendster. Do you know how many fan page for Mafia War? A LOT!!!
Kevin82 0 Newbie Poster
google adword? advert on social bookmarking like facebook? try to put your site there and you will see some traffic to your site.
ejtt7ciia 0 Junior Poster in Training
If I were U, I would like to forcus on the soical networking, and I think it is a great paltform for u to promote a gameing site!
BUt, u have to make sure that your site is worth it!
The traffic on those socioal networking can be viral, as long as your site is great one!
Hirohurl 0 Junior Poster in Training
What kind of online games? I would set up a blog and a squidoo page and post articles specifically on each particular game - segmenting the broad nice "online games" into individual niches, and of course point each blog and lens etc to a specific page on your site where you deal with that particular game.
Gonziorg 0 Newbie Poster
joelchrist -9 Posting Whiz
Yeah. you need to participate in game related forums, add your ideas to that members. Joine groups related to gaming industry on social network like facebook, linkedin. it will bring you better chance to share you sites and relative ideas.
suniverm -2 Light Poster
I think you should use ppc for web promotion and you should be target child.....
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