Build your own Arcade Game Site and make Money!
If you are looking to get your feet wet with a website in the webmaster business you have a couple of opportunities. You can make a blog and put Adsense on it, however, content should be fresh and not everybody has a knack for writing. Also, you can buy turnkey sites made for specific niches but the problem with them is that you need to heavily promote them to get traffic and/or rank high in search engines. A couple alternatives have already been posted on our site recently, and today we will show you another easy way to set up a web site which is fun while making money at the same time.
You may have heard of or even played online flash games commonly referred to as Arcade games. Arcade games sites can be created using a variety of off-the-shelf game scripts, yet they can also be installed onto the WordPress CMS, which is free and famous for its large use base due to numerous plugins which achieve very nice things, including running an automated Arcade sites for example. As the top WP Arcade scripts are made to be loved by search engines you will likely get organic traffic assuming you have done some keyword SEO and own a relevant domain name.
We have tried this approach with www.best-arcades.info, which after a while, started producing earnings without having ever been promoted. Apart from earnings from Adsense or your other ad network can you additionally make some cents if you show Mochi ads and host them on your server. There are 3 main WP Arcade scripts available, all of which has their pros and cons: MyArcadeBlog upon the Pro version our test web site has been built, WPArcade upon which www.arcadeonlinegaming.com has been built, and Emanuele Feronato’s Triqui theme based www.doll-games.info, a site we have created for testing purposes and then sold.
Some tips for the new Arcade webmasters:
- 1. For domain registration we strongly recommended Godaddy where a .info domain costs only 1$ and .com domains are also cheap.
- 2. You will soon have more than one Arcade site as they are so fun! So when choosing a hosting provider do not opt for a single-domain account, rather choose a plan like Hostgator Baby, with unlimited unlimited domains, for less than 10$ a month!
- 3. Apply for the Google advertising network if you not already have an Adsense account. Also, make sure to open a Mochi Games publisher account to download their free games.
Build your own Arcade Game Site now and make Money!
In the next parts of this Arcade on WordPress series we will go into the scripts’ details and discuss their strengths of MyAracade Blog, which, in the 20$ Pro edition, has the most advanced features. WPAracde on the other hand has a great variety of ready to go Arcade templates which are also worth their price, yet the underlying script resembles the free edition of MyArcadeBlog, which is not fully automatic. Lastly, as soon as Triqui is updated to work with recent WordPress editions we will have a look at this famous Gallery like standard theme.
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Triqui is the best free pick. Triqui is so easy to use and configure.
I bought the mp3 script and added to my site but it just doesnt work properly as said
So i’m looking for an updated more of 2010 gaming site that i can add my googles ads too. Do you install the scripts like wparcades and add my googles add so I can have a nice gaming site. My husband is 100% disable and two special needs children so thought maybe I can try to get a gaming site going to see if it helps generate some income to help out. could you please tell me what your script cost and how long it would take to add and customize the new title of gaming site to “Chico’s hottest games” so it will blend in with our domain name. Can you help me with that if i buy the script and add my googles ads for me.. i’m 53 so not that smart in doing the setup i do have gator host and have my domain already. Thanks carolyn look forward to hearing from you.
@carolyn
I am sorry to hear that the mp3 script you have purchased doesn’t work properly on your site, and I suggest you contact vendor support.
I am going to contact you by email to help you setting up a WP Arcade site
Regards,
Mark
I am using the wptheme of wparcade… its half cook theme, i mean the newer ones. I just bought the dark theme and when I try installing the theme and configure everything the thumbnails doesn’t show up. I think there trying to fool people selling $33 theme and what’s next? Buying there $20 service support? I was saying this because you were saying wparcade theme is worth the price, I say no it’s not. They not even send a reply to me when I send them twice. No reply, common I bought the theme direct on wparcade website.
@andkon
I can understand you, I would also be annoyed if support doesn’t reply. In my review I have been referring to the NextWPA theme which caused no problems during the install, the new themes including DarkWPA I don’t know hands-on.
I hope they will get back to soon. It might be an issue with their theme, or something, like a permission issue, on your hosting.
Please keep us posted.
If you can’t make any progress in the next days than send me an email again and I will look into your problem for free.
wparcade replied, but with my second email. The permission was right but still the thumbnails is not showing up. They were asking for ftp account and admin on my backend which is very unsecure. I hope they release a theme with proper instruction on a readme.txt file which will solve any issues. It maybe a plugins or a theme. Some sellers are trying to get money or get rich with a defective products. Very unprofessional!
Thanks wparcade, you help me solve the issue about the thumbnails.
Very good read. I think that WPArcade is very great, and their service is good as well. I am replying almost a year later, so many things have changed. However I had never had a problem with them or my site. They always reply to me and have fixed any problems I have had.