my stepmania site

[claire333]

I have a site at www.stepmaniadownloadsource.com for large file downloads. Some fool sent me a bunch of hate mail about excessive advertising, but I was always under the impression that sites that provide large files for downloading should be able to generate more ad revenue. Any suggestions on better ad placement?

[babuks]

I visited your site. It is good to earn money but you have to keep the service thing in mind.
If people like the design and the content of your website, they will revisit again. don't forget that your services are already being given by other people for free!!
So, I suggest to lower the ads or put them at the bottom of the page. The small one line ads can be on top. thanks.

[adamsky.net]

Claire... advertising on your site is in fact pretty annoying. Of course everyone want to earn revenue from the site, but this way is not a good way.

A lot of pop-ups (and there are pop-ups on each sub-site, and they are full screen! - the worst choice) will probably result in lost of many valuable visitors. Personaly I quickly quit such sites. And I know a lot of people that does the same.

Some suggestions:
1. remove ALL the pop-ups/pop-unders.
2. try to "integrate" google ads into the content of your site. What I mean is that at the moment they look like "separate". Try to put more content (writing about stepmania) and give it more space on the site. I would join left and central column, put the text on it and put 1 or 2 small google ads (links only, not text/image ads) inside the text, so they look like they were part of it.
3. implement blog - live content will give you more returning visitors and a chance to "smuggle" some not-direct advertising like affiliate links.
4. set-up the newsletter/e-zine. it's another source of returning visitors, as well as another chance to advertise things like e-books, affiliate links, 3rd party products...

I guess there's a lot more ways much better than putting a bunch of banner and pop-ups that will generate a revenue for you.

You should also make some SEO work - just take some time to search the net for tips and techniques. And don't expect that all this will work "on the fly". It always takes a time to build a stable stream of income from the site...l

I wish you success.

[iamlica]

Good thing I didnt receive a single pop-up ad when I visited your site. Did you remove them on purpose?

For me, text ads are ok, but they shouldnt be all over your site. You could assign a specific space for all the ads instead of scaterring them all over because it's quite hard to determine which texts are ads and which ones are from your site especially with the fonts colors that you're using. Same with image ads, it's ok to have them as long as they're in one place and not all over your site.

Good Luck!

[thebluekirby]

oh gosh i'm addicted to stepmania!
you sir are like the coolest person ever to make a site like that XD if you have stepmania online i'd totally play against you XD *and prolly lose o_O;;;*
anyways, looks great but the domain name is a bit too long. cool sim files tho, i'll definatly try them out. awesome site ;D and hope to see your site grow ^__^

[xtcSouL]

Yes pop-ups can be very annoying to people especially 56kers. OH god imagine them trying to load up the page and the pop-up. Anyways just get rid of em. adamsky.net go get pop-up blockers, you'll need em

[Darth_DUB]

My browser blocks the pop-ups so no big deal there. I do think you have a nice looking site though. You seem to have many resources for the game available to your visitors. I say good job and i did not find your advertising to be that much of a problem for me.

[adamsky.net]

Yes pop-ups can be very annoying to people especially 56kers. OH god imagine them trying to load up the page and the pop-up. Anyways just get rid of em. adamsky.net go get pop-up blockers, you'll need em

Ha... I use Firefox 2.0 (on 512k DSL) and it actually blocks pop-ups pretty well But it also keeps me informed that they exists. That's why I've mentioned them...

And I also didn't said that the site is bad or I don't like it - but I really do belive that changing it a bit can make it generating more revenue...

In spite of all - the real value of each website is it's content. And in this case, the content is something that I can tell nothing about, 'cause I know nothing 'bout stepmania
Anyway I'm sure that this site is full of what it should be, as it is made by stepmania fan... I guess that's what it's all about

[Mern]

Your site looks so very professional and the color blends s well. It really attract the attention of the visitors. I hope you have more visitors coming in to your website and for that you will earn more money out of it. Keep up the good work and Stay as doing work professional as it is.

[thebluekirby]

there are popups o_O? didn't really notice. firefox blocks them off so if your viewer uses firefox you're lucky XD yeah i should mention the ads too, at least you were able to blend them in good with the layout :P maybe the layout should look a little more stepmania-ish hahaha