Projects Updates
Its been a while since I posted anything related to my online projects, so I thought I should make the 1st post after my month of blogging “downtime” about these projects.
As some of you may know, I bought an RPG game in the mafia niche around 4 months ago, since then MafiaCorruption has been taking most of my time along with the other website, Hitmanslife which I launched after 2 months of buying mafiacorruption, I brought in a partner in hitmanslife to help with the website since MC was already taking most of my time.
Mafiacorruption grew nicely in the past 4 months, when I purchased the site it has around 5000 members, it currently has more than 9100 member and has been growing on a daily basis, HL was a great success as well and it reached more than 5000 members in its 2-3 months of being online.
RPG sites, for those of you who are familiar with them require allot of time to manage, its not like running any other type of community that I ever ran, its very different that a forum for example, with such sites you have to make sure of lots of things, most importantly cheating with multiple accounts, you also need to check mail logs from time to time and sort out issues between members, but its been allot of fun so far and its certainly worth the effort.
I originally had each of the two sites hosted on its own VPS, however the rapid growth that both sites had made me move them to their own dedicated server, upgrading the VPS’s wasnt cost effective, I found a good special on Softlayer and I took advantage of it, btw I highly recommend Softlayer for servers, they are best when it comes to bandwidth quality as well as support.
Other than RPG’s which like I said was the main thing I was working on for the past months are my social networking projects and the blog network, not much happened regarding the blog network, I’ve pretty much stopped adding new blogs to my automated blog network, same goes for the blog network that I originally started with Charl, who also didnt have time for it, I was hoping to get the 1st blog which is gaget related out in Feb. but I faced a very strange issue with WordPress, maybe ill mention it in more detail in another post.
As for the social networking projects, the new Faye3 version is done! finally after almost 8 months of working with freelance developers but we didnt launch it officially yet, I’ve also been working with Imad on a new social network in a new niche, which I am hoping to finish by the end of March, more details about it soon.
That’s all for this post, hope it wasn’t too long 
[tags]RPG. MMORPG, mafia RPG, social networking, blog network[/tags]
March 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
It’s nice to have you back buddy, I hope you are well.
With regards to revenue, how do game sites perform in comparison to say, a content site? How do you keep visitors coming back for more?
p.s It would be cool if you could click a “Leave comment” link rather than having to enter the post via the title url and scroll down to the bottom (just a small suggestion).
Take care,
Khalid.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Thanks Khalid
As for your question, the revenue model behind such game sites is very different from content sites, you rarely see ads on RPG sites, there model depends on paid upgrades and donations, of course you can put ads there as well but its not the main revenue source.
RPG games are usually addicting for those who like it or try it for a while, its very competitive as well so members will keep coming and coming.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Hey,
Social Networks are really becoming the only way to get indexed super fast, reach the first page of search engines, and to get hoards of free traffic.
Here’s a new Social Network that coined the term “Social Marketing 2.0” and is fast becoming the new hangout for ‘whos who’ of Internet Marketing.
SocialJV.com
I personally use Social Marketing for 90% of my marketing efforts and I actively stay on top of what’s hot and what’s not in the Social world.
I’ll keep an eye on this blog!
Charles