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I wrote the stuff behind http://fstr.net http://fstr.net so it's my own personal games portal. The games come in from a few different XML feeds 'mochigames' be
by AlexC04 15y ago
I wrote the stuff behind http://fstr.net http://fstr.net so it's my own personal games portal. The games come in from a few different XML feeds 'mochigames' being the big one.
There are some crons that run a few times a day to update the list of available games. So I hop on my portal every day and check out a few of the games on the "newest tab" anything I "vote up" (while FB logged in) also gets shown on the "featured" page.
Some of the neat things I've done (IMO) include the live search, infinite scrolling and "zoom button" on the games page (which is actually slightly deprecated at the moment, but it was a great idea when used in a different layout).
While I was actively promoting it, I managed to get it to somewhere within the top 300K websites worldwide, but the marketing model of 'spamming reddit' isn't really rewarding so I'm looking at trying to find a model that actually adds more value to the web-gaming experience.
A forum for example - currently just one guy talking to himself. Or maybe the ability to "turn off" all adsense advertising (with facebook login).
In terms of marketing, I've been testing out the impact of having a better, more keyword rich domain - copies have gone up on http://1fungame.com http://1fungame.com and http://games-to-play.co http://games-to-play.co - so far I'm finding that the users that come in to the keyword domain bounce a hell of a lot less and stay for a lot longer ... I'm still not convinced I should 301 (HTML code for moved permanently).
I was really excited about it when it first launched because it made $1 in adsense within a few hours of launching ... then it got really exciting and paid for the registration fee of the domain name. Nowadays it doesn't quite cover hosting fees but if we did everything for the money we wouldn't be hackers right? :)
Anyways... that's a really long answer to a very short question. My games portal is http://fstr.net http://fstr.net