Bisqwit, I have noticed that recently there has been bandwidth problems, and that your traffic rank is abouth 50,000th. This is a very high rank and if you wanted to you could probably make over 10,000$ a year with a rather small amount of ads on each page. This may go against your principles, and might piss some people off, but I believe you deserve it, to at least pay your expenses for the site.
I bring this up because I recently had a job that was programming for an affiliate marketting company/ search engine optimization company / google ads. So I saw how much money some of sites make and it was really surprising. Anyways I quit that job because I hate web programming, but oh wells.
i keep thinking of a breakfast cereal (or product in general) done in Bisquick style... reading various things similar to 1337 cereal
...or maybe thats just me...
Bisqwit, I have noticed that recently there has been bandwidth problems, and that your traffic rank is abouth 50,000th. This is a very high rank and if you wanted to you could probably make over 10,000$ a year with a rather small amount of ads on each page. This may go against your principles, and might piss some people off, but I believe you deserve it, to at least pay your expenses for the site.
I bring this up because I recently had a job that was programming for an affiliate marketting company/ search engine optimization company / google ads. So I saw how much money some of sites make and it was really surprising. Anyways I quit that job because I hate web programming, but oh wells.
Thank you for your ideas.
First of all, I don't know what does "traffic rank of 50,000th" mean and how you came up with that number.
I've been thinking of various ways to profit, nothing really serious, but just on the idea level. Google ads, t-shirts, etc.
But I personally think that all of it is just too much hassle. Google ads, for example, for a small site like this, pay too little that handling the cheques they send would be worth anything.
At our company, we host one free dictionary service, which has more visitors than my site, but the amounts we receive from Google are rather minimal, and the cheques often arrive too late so that they can't even be claimed...
Currently there's one method of money source on the pages. It doesn't seem to bear much fruit at all, but on the other hand it needed nearly no effort to set up.
I'm not trying to rule out possibilities, but rather, to point out that it feels like too much effort to go on and try it. :I
If you type bisqwit.iki.fi into alexia it gives you the ranking for iki.fi (Basicly a huge DNS provider for Finland). Which is ranked 50000.
Not huge.. 16250 members currently, and a mere small fraction of them have *.iki.fi domains - the rest are only enjoying redirections.
But yes, Alexa gives stats for whole iki.fi, not just bisqwit.iki.fi.
(Reference: The member list at http://www.iki.fi/iki/jasenet-nro.html )
I hope something can be done about the site... it's true that's a small site and that would be a lot of hassle to handle cheque claiming business or anything like that, but i'm sure something could be done...
I don't want to see this site closed for a money reason or things like that... Maybe you should find some people to handle some business operations...
Moreover Bisqwit's T-shirts would be cool...
Oh, I guess if the free dictionary service doesn't rake in much than this site wouldn't either. I was getting these figures from alexa.com ranking, 50000, but a little less than half of that is to the nesvideos site I think.
I like the Tshirt idea, I would buy one :)
Hell yeah, I'd definitely buy a T-Shirt too. This place is just as awesome as David Wonn's site. I wish I could submit as many things here as I did with Wonn's site, though. I'm such a lazy bum. >_O
so... someone needs to come up with a t-shirt design then... only problem is, what to put on it (graphic-wise) since everything relating to games is copyright... ha, getting permission from the companies, that would be fun.
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I would also buy a t-shirt for sure. maybe we could have a "what text should be on the t-shirt"-thread if this idea turns out to be good?
Maybe something like: "If you fail, just load and do it again".. Or something ;)
The t-shirt should have the SMB1 movie file printed on it (or at least a small part of it).
And maybe "Super Mario Bros walkthrough:" above it...
Following on this idea, in my mind I'm visualizing something that has a hexdump of an FCM file [img_right]http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/spsym.png[/img_right]on the background and Mario zipping fast on the foreground, or something like that. Plus a personal touch such as Mega Man's helmet or some other symbol from my own mind.
There's one great thing about this site: It's not stuffed with tons of blinking flashy ad banners like most other sites (which makes them a real pain to surf). It would be a pitty if this site was degraded to the same level as all those other sites.
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I kinda like Bisqwit's idea for shirts. For each shirt, have part of an FCM hex dump and put some memorable moment from the run on top of it: Samus walking suitless amongst metroids, Megaman lodged in a ceiling, Mario barely clearing a piranha plant, etc. Couple that with some cheesy phrase and a logo on the front, and it's something I might purchase if I had cash I was willing to blow. :S
And then maybe have a shirt that has Mario not quite clearing that piranha plant with the phrase, "If only life had save states," next to it.
Maybe I should stop...
Edit: By the way, I may be missing something, but what's with those scribblings next to Bisqwit's post?
A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Alright. Looks a heck of a lot like part of some circuit diagram.
I was thinking it looked like the languages you see on Star Trek sometimes...like Vulcan or something. Or music perhaps, in a new notation format. Could it be an artistic representation of the data in a FMV file?
I give up!
