beating minijuegos (was security again)

I don't block minijuegos because they do not block my ads.
Over 50% of the
traffic to my games comes in from one or another of these
game linking sites
that don't generate any of thier own content. It requires
constant
monitoring to ensure that these companies are following my
rule. (The rule
is if you show my game, then you must not block the ad that
appears directly
below it.)

I'm using Google Ads sense for the most part because they
do
geo-targeting....thus I show localized ads on minijuegos.
These sites are
helping me out, providing ad impressions I wouldn't
otherwise have. I use
ServerBeach as my ISP so I get 2000gb a month in bandwith
for about $130US a
month. The games generate about a 5% click-through on ads.

I'm not singing the praises of these sites because if you
have a different
revenue model, they can be very irritating. But to answer
the question "how
can we beat them at their own game?" I get a check
from Google every month
that's WAY bigger than my bandwidth costs.....so I think I
already am.

Gene
Maidmarian.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lon Koenig" <lonmediagods.com>
To: "Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game
Production"
<dirgames-lnuttybar.drama.uga.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: [dirGames-L] beating minijuegos (was security
again)


> If these guys can generate that sort of traffic, there
is clearly a
> demand for browser-based games.
> How can WE (the shockwave game developer community)
beat them at
> their own game?
> Obviously, we will have a bit more overhead since we
have to pay for
> bandwidth. We also have the actual cost of creating a
game instead of
> stealing it,  but there must be a business model in
here that makes
> sense.
> -- 
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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