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| Making Money On A Gaming Blog |
It is funny when I am writing my posts I usually have a feeling on what is going to bring alot of traffic, or alot of comments. At least that is what I think while writing them, but time after time it is posts I never even thought would be hits get pounded by Google every day.
My Aion posts that are now coming up on almost a year old are my biggest daily traffic from Google. I thought no one even played the game any longer, but when viewing my Google Analytics it drives most of my traffic every day. I would of never thought that in a million years.
So what did I write about that brings the bulk of my traffic. Pure and simple. It is guides, and walkthroughs. Players love them. No one likes to figure stuff out on their own any more. The days of wiping a million times to find a strat died with VHS, and also players like to have their hands held when playing a new game.
Of course I write plenty of blog posts that gets tons of interaction, and comments from my readers. The problem with those is they are one day wonders. No one ever googles those posts. Players are looking for information, and strats not my daily rants, and negativity which normally shows up in all my posts.
Another thing in case you wonder what drives my traffic is all my Youtube videos. My videos still get hundreds of hits a day. Players love them. Once again it is mostly my guides, and walkthroughs that players continue to view every day on Youtube.
My Aion Video Leveling Guide seven part series alone has over 20k views, and my Tomb of the Vulture Lord PTS walkthrough also has around 10k hits. My Allods Online videos also get lots of views every single day. This is money I let just fly away by not monetizing my stuff.
So how do you make money on a gaming blog? I can tell you from experience it isn't from ads on your site. Yes, I have them on my gaming blogs, but it really is laughable. I literally make less than a buck a day. I am not going to be quitting my day job any time soon with that kind of income.
I have hinted on the way already to make money on gaming blogs. I haven't personally done it myself yet, but it is a project I am currently working on. You need to make guides, and walkthroughs. Make ebooks, or videos for games with information players want. It is what players crave. I am not talking about selling them for $49.95, but dirt cheap like $5.95 or $9.95.
How much money do you think I would have right now if I would of marketed my Aion Video leveling guides for $5.95. By doing some rough math it would of been over $100k for just one video leveling guide that I literally made in about 5 days.
The opportunity is out there. You have Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, Cataclysm, Rift, Tera, and more coming out in 2011. Are you ready to make your fortune?
