How to Better Your Flash Arcade by Using Free Banner Exchanges

The web is has been flooded with flash arcades and similar entertainment sites and it is becoming very hard to become profitable. You need to get traffic any way you can and you need lots of it. Most flash arcade owners don't have a large budget to promote their site with. You need to find an effective way to get your site quality traffic that doesn't cost a lot.

Free arcade banner exchanges like funklicks are great for flash arcades and similar entertainment websites. If you don't know what arcade banner exchanges do I will explain. You signup for free, upload a 100x100 banner ad, specify what website or URL it should link to, then paste a few lines of code onto your website where you want the banner ads to show. Many arcade banner exchanges show your banner ad on someone else's arcade every time one of their banners is displayed on your arcade. The others will send a genuine visitor to your arcade when one of your visitors clicks a banner on your website. Most arcade banner exchanges have a Click Through Rate (CTR) of 4 to 5%. That is several times higher than other ad companies.

Some people dislike banner exchanges because it is sending your visitors to your competitor's website. If that were a real problem then the big arcades wouldn't use them or have Google ads either. Visitors are just as important as profit because on the internet you can't make any money without them.

Most arcade banner exchanges will give you free impressions, usually a several thousand, or clicks when you signup. Some will only give you the free credits after you send a certain amount of impressions or clicks. Free credits are great for some quick traffic.

When using a banner exchange you it is important to treat your banner like you would an ad on Google AdWords. Try different banners and delete the ones that don't perform as good as the others. Your CTR mostly depends on how attracting your banner is. For example one of my banners has an average CTR of around 9.5%. Animated banners perform way better than still ones. You can have a bar at the top or bottom of your ad that says something along the lines of, "Play Free Games." The typical flash arcade user is male, so if you can find some sexy pictures of anime girls your can raise your CTR greatly. Make sure they are all family friendly pictures because it might get taken down or you could even get banned.

Try not to just throw all the banner exchange codes at the very bottom of your site. Try to put them in places where they are likely to get clicked. It's never a good idea to put banner exchange codes too close to games because they will distract your users and will turn them away from your site. The higher you place the banner code the more traffic you will send and that will bring you more as well. You should also think logically when putting multiple exchange codes on your site. For banner exchanges that work with clicks put their code in places that are more likely to have clicks. The same goes for the ones that work with impression. If your site statistics show that the visitors from one exchange are more productive their code should be placed better also.

If you have yet to sign up for any arcade banner exchanges it is a good idea to start thinking of places on your arcade where you have room for a few 100x100 banners, and when you do signup keep in mind all of the tips in this article.

This article was written by a webmaster of several flash arcades with free games to play online.

Is the Apple iPad a Lot Better Than Netbook Computers Or Even Tablet PCs?

Apple is going to release a brand new gadget named iPad. You'll be able to make use of it to browse the net, check electronic mail, and also watch video clips and photos. You may also choose from several thousands of user developed applications to set up.

The actual iPad is not on the market at this moment. Although Apple released the Software Development Kits along with the iPad simulator so folks can start developing apps for this, the iPad will be released in March 2010, and an additional variation released in April '10. The iPad is a really slim and light device, therefore it is unquestionably a thing you might take on the road. Its sleek style and design is certainly typical of Apple items.

However the iPad possesses a great number of points working against it in comparison against many other devices. For example, netbooks provide really much more than the iPad Netbook computers are really noticeably more inexpensive when compared to the Apple iPad The lowest cost edition of Apple iPad should cost $450 The latest mini netbook coming from a highly regarded brand name could run you somewhere between $249 up to maybe $430. Although seeing that we'll be contrasting the Apple iPad along with other high quality devices, why don't we go with the most advanced edition of the Apple iPad, that has 64giga bytes worth of drive space. Even though this iPad will carry a price tag of over $800, any mini netbook computer which has a 150Gb hard disk may well cost approximately two hundred and fifty dollars That is certainly an additional advantage of a new mini netbook, it has far more hard disk drive space compared to a Apple iPad.

The iPad will certainly contain a chip that is significantly slower when compared with the one the majority of netbook computers contain. In many instances a new netbook computer could possibly be more than twice as fast as the Apple iPad. And what about screen size? The actual Apple iPad incorporates a 9.7 inch screen, regular netbook computers have different display dimensions, although generally they're close to 13 in. In this case, the actual winner wasn't really apparent mainly because that depends on your own choice: portability or perhaps screen size. Apple has spoken a good deal regarding all the applications that exist for an Apple iPad, since their own products have been recognized to bring in numerous designers. But netbook computers are actually ordinary computer systems, including a lot of diverse applications accessible as well as prepared to be purchased. Netbook computers benefit from almost all of a broad selection of equipment and hardware choices, and considering that mini netbook computers possess universal serial bus (usb) connectors, you'll find countless products that can be connected into them. Additionally, considering this is a machine that is promoted as being the best to experience video playback as well as photos, it is certainly odd that it does not have a photographic camera.

To finish things off, the Apple iPad launching can be a large landmark for Apple. It has already been highly expected and also acclaimed. But for this sort of cost, one can't help but ponder if it is deserving of it. Again, if you're looking for mobility as well as usability, the Apple iPad will likely give you happiness. But a netbook computer can cost a third of the Apple iPad price and provide a lot more functionality and already established platforms, and also it can easily link directly together with other computers, while also providing you with transportability. To my opinion it's obvious, mini netbook computers are the champions in the fight between iPad vs netbook.

It appears that the iPad will be more of a rival for some other smaller products like the tablet PCs and even the Apple iPhone, because it seriously does not measure up to mini netbooks, especially taking into consideration its price tag.

Other Websites:

iPad on Wikipedia
HP Mini

Nolan Sims is a Software Engineer whom analyzes numerous computing devices as well as other electronic devices against each other for his followers.