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Ask HN: How to monetize we website with 80.000 page views per month
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2 points
by sareiodata
5159 days ago
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The website in question is <a href="http://gamers-lab.com" >gamers-lab.com</a> It's a portal for system requirements and release dates for games. Currently, a friend works on it as a hobby and gets $40 - $50 per month from Google Adsense. Traffic related, it's been growing organically (and linear), comes from search mostly and currently it's around 80.000 page views per month. There's a little bit of extra functionality besides the standard listing of system requirements and release dates:
- possibility to create an account on the site (http://www.gamers-lab.com/register/)
- once you create an account you can enter your gaming system (processor, video card, etc) and based on it you get a "You can run this game" feedback when you visit a game. So where to go from here? Some ideas we had:
- affiliate sales for games (we actually tried this but it didn't work)
- subscribe to notifications for new games when they get released (to increase user retention and traffic)
- payed members? Perhaps $5 per year. Not sure what to offer for this to be worth for the users. Any feedback is more then welcomed. Thank you. |
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But to answer your question (coming from a college student): My first thought was to be able to pre-order these games, but you said that didn't work.
What about instead of selling the games, since your main idea is focused around the system requirements- you could do affiliate linking to the products users need.
Then they see exactly what they need, and appreciate + gladly go through your link to get their system to the playable level?
I'll be able to go to gamers-lab.com, find the game I am interested in, "Run this game", and if my computer dosen't meet the specs required I'll find the links easily I need to upgrade my rig. Sounds like a pretty slick service to me.