Site report: GameMaker8.com
I was just taking a look at my ProjectWonderful account today which reminded me of my domain GameMaker8.com
The site contains 3 ProjectWonderful ads and the content (first 200 words or so) of the latest 10 posts on GameMaker Blog from its RSS feed. The stats provided by PW show that over the past month the site has been getting an average of about 9 unique visitors a day.
I was quite mystified to discover it was receiving that amount of traffic, and even more so to discover that I appear to have neglected to install Google Analytics on the page so I have next to no information on how people found the site - although my bet is that 90%+ is from Google searches.
I registered the domain in early March this year when HostMySite were offering ridiculously cheap domains for a short period of time (they were $4). I was partly influenced by the fact that GameMaker4 - GameMaker7 were all registered and parked at PPC pages, I assume because of the number of searches made for people looking for various versions of the software. Also I can use the domain to drive traffic to GameMaker blog, and in 2009, when GameMaker 8 is due to be released, I can probably knock up a quick mini-site.
I can’t find a way to see the total amount made from one ad spot with ProjectWonderful, but currently GameMaker8.com is running at about $0.05 a day :P. Pretty pathetic really, but from just 9 visitors very good.
Analytics has now been added.
Tags: gamemaker8.com, google analytics, income, project wonderful
Le Tour commence!
I have just finished watching the first stage of the Tour de France.
Wonder how many riders/teams will have left/been fired/been kicked out by the end?
Maybe Dwain Chambres could take up cycling?
Wikipedia list of the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sportspeople_sanctioned_for_doping_offences
Tags: drugs cheats, le tour
£20 EMA
I’m still getting EMA (government cash bribe to try to get poor people to stay on at school,) even though I’ve finished school. Now that is stupid. I guess they must pay until the traditional end of the school year.
Will Viacom know what I watch?
American copyright bully Viacom wants to know what videos I watch on YouTube.
From an issue that arrose on YouTube last year it is clear Viacom is hypocritical.
Come on Google, fight. Their source code is secure but surely this information about its millions of users is extremely valuable for marketing purposes…
Tags: copyright bully, google, viacom, youtube
Ian Oakley - the pet lover’s choice
A leaflet from Ian Oakley, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Watford, came through our door today.
He is holding a “Pretty pet competition”. I thought he was suposed to be a politican, not a local newspaper.
Tags: conservatives, ian oakley, pets
Tank Montana Suspended
On arriving back home from school after book return day my mum said that Tank Montana, the breakfast show host on our local radio station, had been suspended.
Was this, I wondered, because of a trail for his breakfast show (which I never listen to), which appeared to imply that Amy Winehouse was taking drugs - apparently not.
From a rather quickly read out statement I believe he has been suspended until at least the 1st of July because he recorded a conversation with his boss (I have no idea if this was played on air or not).
The most exciting thing to happen on Mercury since Tom and Kez’s breakfast show.
Tags: Mercury 96.6, school
LivinFm is a pile of poop
LivinFm is screwed up (as per the norm) so I made backup server. I might use it for experimenting with radio stuff later as I want to do a show at some time. However for now (today 9pm) you can listen to The James Show on it.
Tags: james gourley, livinfm, radio
YouTube playlist
I found a nice tool to visualise YouTube playlists and make them embeddable within a webpage. Here is my YouTube playlist - normally I start about half the way through skipping several songs as I go.
There are some irritants with the YouTube playlist feature - the first being that occasionally copyright holders request that YouTube removes a video - breaking the playlist - and second that their is no ’shuffle’ or ‘random play’ (sounds like Facebook :P) feature.
Radio
As fresh come off the air tonight I am left with livinfm.
The same LivinFM that was ‘hacked’ and now appears not to have paid their server bills,….
Comments(1)Tags: fresh watford, livinfm