BigFishGames.com tops ONE Billion downloads and to celebrate this milestone, Big Fish Games Collection is on SALE for a limited time (Saturday, Sunday and Monday – July 24,25,26). Have your customers choose from our Collections for only $2.99 each!

Coupon Code: ONEBILLION

To  see the PC games available for discount:
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/genres/122/felixs-favorites.html?channel=
affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE  (please remember to plug in your AFCODE).

To  see the Mac games available for discount:
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/mac/genres/122/felixs-favorites.html?channel=
affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE  (please remember to plug in your AFCODE).

Or you can target the individual games and add your AFCODE.

All regular price games are 40% off on BigFishGames.jp portal for Summer Customer Appreciation.

The following coupon code will officially be valid from July 23 at 12AM to July 27 at 11:59PM (JP Time).

THANKYOU10

This can be used by entering it in the “Have a Coupon Code?” box in the Shopping Cart.

BFG Affiliate Program provides its affiliates with ads in different sizes to advertise this promotion on your website, social media site, and newsletters.
We recommend that you link the graphics to BigFishGames.jp. Please insert your afcode at the end to track your referrals:
http://www.bigfishgames.jp/?channel=affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE

Graphic materials can be found at affiliate program’s news feed.

Take 40% off any 7.99 € game on BigFishGames.de portal to celebrate Summer Festival

The following coupon code will officially be valid from July 21st to July 25th

SOMMER2010

This can be used by entering it in the “Have a Coupon Code?” box in the Shopping Cart.

BFGAP offers ads in different sizes to advertise this promotion on your website, social media site, and newsletters.

We recommend that you link the graphics to BigFishGames.de . Please insert your afcode at the end to track your referrals:
http://www.bigfishgames.com/de?channel=affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE

Inform your users about these discounts, get more customers and earn more commissions!

BigFishGames promotions have already became regular: 4 July, Spring Fever, Easter Sale and others.

This week BigFishGames lets encourage your users to take 40% off all 7.99 € games on BigFishGames.com/ES and BigFishGames.com/FR portals to celebrate Bastille Day and Spain’s World Cup Victory.

The following coupons codes will officially be valid from July 14th to Sunday July 18th:

For the BigFishGames.com/ES site please use CAMPEONES ;

For the BigFishGames.com/FR site please use 14JUILLET .

These can be used by entering them in the “Have a Coupon Code?” box in the Shopping Cart.

BigFishGames also offer ads in different sizes to advertise this promotion on your website, social media site, and newsletters.

We recommend that you link the graphics to BigFishGames.com/es or BigFishGames/fr – please insert your afcode at the end to track your referrals:
http://www.bigfishgames.com/es?channel=affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE
http://www.bigfishgames.com/fr?channel=affiliates&identifier=YOUR AFCODE

Banners can be found in BFGAP news feed.

Encourage your visitors to take advantage of this discount at BigFishGames.com. They only need to enter the coupon JULY4THSALE in the “Have a Coupon Code?” box in the Shopping Cart.

The promotion starts on Friday, July 2, at 00:01 AM PST and runs through Monday, July, 4, 11:59 PM PST. The offer applies only to BigFishGames English site. Make sure to remove the graphics at or before Monday midnight when the promotion expires.

Unfortunately BigFishGames doesn’t care about its affiliates and does not offer any promo materials.

Zamango Page Navigation creates pagebar on lists (for ex. on category or search results) and Next Post & Previous Post links on each post.

Zamango Page Navigation plugin inserts customizable pagebars into your Wordpress, allowing reader to reach page X in one click. Also it features quick links on single post (to previous and next posts).

Main features of Zamango Page Navigation plugin:

• Pagebar of quick links on lists (like index, category, tag or archive and etc.)
• Pagebar of links to the next and previous posts
• Independently show/hide pagebar at the beginning and end of a page
• Highly customizable appearance (style and content) by using of simple HTML and CSS
• Independent amount of links on the left, central and right parts of pagebar
• Other options which make plugin very customizable for any website needs

The main reason to develop the plugin was absence of any plugin of such functionality and stable on modern Wordpress builds, so we were made to create it for our own needs. It was made with the help of plugin titled Zamango Money Extractor. However, we hope that Zamango Page Navigation will be helpful to other Wordpress users, too.

Classical Wordpress theme contains quick links on a post page but due to creator’s joke or mistake quick links of all posts does not make a linear scheme. For example if you click on “next” link and then to “previous link” it’s highly possible that you will not return to original post. Such small thing can break internal website linking and pagerank allocation.

To install a new plugin, firstly, you should upgrade WordPress. Only WordPress 2.8 lets Zamango Page Navigation plugin work at all capacity. This plugin can also run on Wordpress 2.7.4. with some restrictions though.

Plugin Installation procedure is standard:

1. Download plugin files
2. Upload ‘zamango-page-navigation’ package to the `/wp-content/plugins/` folder in your website derectory.
3. Access the plugin panel in your WordPress Administration Panels

As soon you have installed the plugin, you may continue making any modifications necessary to make the plugin’s actions meet your needs.

For example, you don’t want to put this kind of navigation on your post,

Just put a mark away against “before post” & “after post” at “Quick links on single post” tab:

As stated above, Zamango Page Navigation let you customize appearance (style and content) by using of simple HTML and CSS.

If your template has links to the next pages in order not to change template by hand just add to plugin CSS line ` .navigation {display:none;} `

Install Zamango Page Navigation Plugin and make your blog’s content more convenient to navigate.

]]> http://www.zamango.com/zamango-page-navigation-free-wordpress-plugin.html/feed 0 http://www.zamango.com/game-banner-exchange-networks.html http://www.zamango.com/game-banner-exchange-networks.html#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:46:04 +0000 Svetlanka http://www.zamango.com/?p=875 As soon as you start your game project you will think over how to drive more and more visitors to your website every day. That is why participating in a banner exchange program is an effective and inexpensive way to drive traffic to your web site.

But first of all let us give you slight information about banners and networks where they are attached. Banner Exchange is an advertising network, the members of which are ad spaces. Most of the banner exchange networks are public, i.e. every web site, coordinated with advertising policy, is able to be the partner of this process.

The idea of all banner exchange networks is quite similar. In this case the partner of banner exchange inserts the HTML code to display banners of other members for everyone into his web pages. In his turn the partner is given the opportunity to submit his own advertisement at other web pages. The amount of displays of your advertisement at other’s sites is in direct proportion to the amount display of partner’s advertisement at your web site. The owner of banner exchange network takes on commission from the partners. Usually it is about 15-20 % from all banner impressions that can be used at his discretion (according to the advertising policy), for example, to sell it to advertiser.

Since we speak about generating game traffic, it should be promoted on entertainment-related contents. Your goal is to “exchange” traffic with your partners and make your visitors to stay at your web site. Among different game banner exchange networks, let us point out the best ones:

• Arcade Banners
• GamesBannerNetwork
• GameCetera
• MoreGamers
• Funklicks

ArcadeBanners

Arcade Banners – Gaming Banner Exchange offers quite reasonable terms. Exchange Ratio is 10:9. That means for every ten banners displayed at your site, your banner will be displayed at least nine times at other sites. After your first week active, you will get 25000 free displays. The banner should be placed at first 480 pixel of the page. The other keys:

• Target game traffic
• Discounts to a great order
• Security All views, clicks, use rips are logged and analyzed
• Instant statistics
• Fast activation

If you have spare money you may buy displays to receive more visitors. But if are not going to waste money on impressions, you can display banners on your web site. In this connection Paypal will be rather useful. You can get benefits from this system if your banner has a high CTR. To increase CTR of your banner, it must be cute and contain catching information. It all depends on you and your creative work.

Also there is a plan for those partners who have several subsidiary ad spaces and one main site head-liner. The displays remove on subsidiary ad spaces, but links of your displays lead to the head-liner.

The statistics page is common and simple. The statistics is shown by month in view of day.

By the way, free e-mail accounts are not allowed.

In conclusion, Arcade Banners is a fine tool to boost target traffic to your sites.

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GamesBannerNetwork

GamesBannerNetwork is another banner exchange network. This very network is a target traffic audience of casual games on PC, MAC, and Flash games, of course. GamesBannerNetwork begins its work in 2001 and keeps its leading position.

The audience of visitors:

• The amount of impressions per day is 3 000 000 – 4 000 000
• Average CTR: 1.65%
• Geography: USA 25% , UK 5%, FR 5%, Canada 4%, Germany 3%, Italy 2%

• Prices: 0.18$ CPM / 0.015$ CPC

For the editor of games these are several interesting features:

• 50 000 free credits for joining GBN
• 100×100/468×60/120×600 and other banners sizes supported
• Five Exchange Zones: Arcade, Dress up, RPG, Gambling, Adult
• Possibility to use Jpg, Gif, Png, Flash banners

Games Banner Network uses the CTR a Web site generates to calculate its commission:

• A Web site with a CTR of 5% or higher earns a 10:10 exchange ratio
• A Web site with a CTR of 3 to 4.99% earns a 10:9.5 exchange ratio
• A Web site with a CTR of 2 to 2.99% earns a 10:9 exchange ratio
• A Web site with a CTR of 1 to 1.99% earns a 10:8 exchange ratio
• A Web site with a CTR lower than 1% earns a 10:7,5 exchange ratio
• A Web site with a CTR lower than 0.3% earns a 10:7 exchange ratio

Flexible rate makes the members of the network work harder to increase CTR and it is profitable for each partners.

The distinguishing feature of GamesBannerNetwork is the use of Paypal, RegNow, checks, and Bank wire. If you have some doubt in this network, let us show you the partners of it.

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MoreGamers

It is Game Banner Network. All sites are divided into three levels:

• Basic. It is common site without any special terms or offers.
• Premium. It is impossible to place banners of other networks. There are privileged members, under favorable conditions.
• Paid. It is sites with a CTR higher than 1%. The network is able to buy impressions for U.S. traffic. The price of purchase depends on quality of the traffic. The system buys only American impressions!

The main features:

• Exchange ratio is 10:9
• GIF, JPEG, PNG or Flash, seize 100×100 is supported
• Detailed statistics: impressions, clicks, CTR
• GEO targeted traffic

MoreGames does not display advertisements of the following nature: gambling and casino, dating, nudity, adult, alcohol, tobacco, racism and other illegal activities.

Like other banner exchange networks MoreGamers offers its members free banners. To use them you should have your web site of the first level (no free web hosting), then choose banner and send the request.

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Gamecetera

GameCetera does not differ far from other banner exchange networks. All sites are entertainment-related.

Among its peculiarities we should point out:

• There is a restriction on using of others banner networks: the banner of other network must be placed at the distance of 600 pixels from the GameCetera banner or further.
• Support for 100×100 and 125×125 banners.
• Members have the right to sell impressions to the third parties, but it is prohibited to sell impressions with lower price than $0, 40 CPM.
• Exchange ratio is up to 10:10 sometimes.
• The site must be in English language.

In addition, the average CTR is about 1,4.

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Funklicks

Funkclicks is rather old banner exchange system for game web sites.

• Support for 100×100 and 125×125 banners.
• 4 000 000 clicks per month
• Sophisticated anti-abuse technology.
• Automated real-time impression quality control protection for ads.
• Manual review of stats and logs.

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Thus you can choose one of these banner exchange system that is pointed out above. To our humble opinion it is worth to place banners on these five systems at once. Try your hand at banner exchange on your site with partners and boost your traffic.

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In this connection, you may use information from CasualCharts. The resource was founded in 2005 under the title Game-Sales-Charts but then was renamed. There are charts of casual games of large game portals, such as AOL, Big Fish Games, eGames, Game House, iWin, Mac Game Store, MSN Hot Games, Oberon, Pogo, Real Arcade, Reflexive Arcade, Shockwave, Yahoo! .

Every day CasualCharts collects from these portals the freshest information about popular games. Today CasualCharts offers us the information in three chapters: WorldMap, New Releases и History.

At page WoldMap you are able to observe the charts of the greatest game portals in the current date. So the common  top of 10 games is based on the results of these charts.

You can customize the received data as you need. In Options you can choose portals, time interval, amount of games in a top of each portal, horizontal or vertical representation. Moreover, you can choose a period for fixation of game’s position change in the top (displayed by arrows beside a game title). CasualCharts uses a game scoring system: every time a game appears in the top, it gives a quantity of scores. In Options you can choose a scoring method.

In  History you can find top changes history for one portal you have chosen. You can select a time period (days, weeks, mounts) and the amount of games in a top.

On the page New Releases you can find the information about everyday new releases on portals you have chosen. It means that you will be well informed about all new releases and to be given an accurate account about casual games industry. And all that is on only one website.

Moreover, you can find a lot of charts based on different parameters. A list and description of each chart are in Legacy Charts.

It is not a secret that the majority of games are issued on different portals at different times, a game can be exclusive for a long period on some of them. You can see the bestsellers by monitoring the charts, and as soon as the proper game appears in the affiliate program which you are working with, it will be reasonable to put this game to “top”. Very often the games which “we” like, our websites’ visitors dislike. Casual Chart helps you to look at your “top” from outside.

After you’ve made your own sales chart, compare it to the charts from large portals constantly, with one of them they will coincide the most. Try to be geared to this portal.  Many people who work in this organization spend much time and money on studies to get maximum profit from sales. Use their knowledge, if the types of your visitors are alike, you can increase your sales by offering the same products undoubtedly.

But any statistics helps only if its data is analyzed correctly. Study, think and make right decisions!

Step 1.

The important thing for site owner is hosting choice. The hosting with stable work guarantees the website’s successful development.  If a site is unavailable or is loading slowly from time to time, its development, promotion and profit from it will be impossible.

What hosting should you choose? We will define the WordPress requirements first.

* PHP, version 4.3 or more.
* MySQL, version 4.0 or more.
* Linux platform with Apache web server with the connected mod_rewrite module.
* 500 Mb disk space. (The space is oversized )
* the minimum of operative memory – 32 Mb.
What hoster is the best? Unfortunately there is no answer for this question. Your opinion about hoster can be changed in some minutes because your account may be unreasonably blocked or the server may be fried. So there is no common formula. There are some services on hoster selection, concerning our parameters – www.hosting-review.com, www.hostreview.com. Do not forget that the miser pays twice, and unfortunately a free hosting confirms this statement. Choose, read opinions, and get a good hosting. In this case personal experience and intuition are the best assistants.

Step 2.

The second important step is the purchasing of a domain name, or a domain. It costs from $5 to $10. It is desirable to have debit or a credit card allowing settling through the Internet or WebMoney purse with the necessary sum.

1. It would be very good, if there are keywords such as casual games, download games, play games etc. at a domain name. See the top of these enquiries in Google.

2. If you didn’t manage to choose the name with the keyword, try short and imposing name, which will be easy to remember.

3. If you are going to sell games on the foreign markets the domain should be in com/org/net zones or in us/eu/de zones.
We recommend the domain names recorder in com/org/net zones – www.godaddy.com; there is a service of free domain name selection on the resource. For domain registration in a ru/ zone there is www.domains.webmoney.ru website.

Step 3.

So, you’ve chosen the hosting, got the domain, and the third important step is installation and adjustment of CMS of WordPress. The best incremental instruction you can find on official WordPress website. So we are not going to write about it in detail. You will simply open the link and follow the instructions neatly. Please note that Wordpress version 2.5 or later is needed for ZME plugin proper function.

On this stage you are going to be a designer, your way leads to a websites with free WordPress themes. The recommended sites are wordpressthemesbase.com and www.freewpthemes.net. But if they cannot satisfy your demand, having typed “free wordpress themes” in any search engine, you will find thousands websites with free themes easily. Choose any of them, and if you want, you can improve somebody’s theme or make your own. You should add ready theme to wp-content/content/themes directory, then activate the theme in the “Appearance” bookmark in WordPress dashboard and enjoy your creation.

Step 4.

The next step is necessary for effective work plugins installation. All plugins are installed by downloading them on the server to wp-content/plugins/ directory. Here is the list of recommended plugins:

• All in One SEO Pack – optimization to various searching engines.
• Sociable – allows choosing and posting buttons for article adding to any social network service.
• Google XML Sitemaps – automatically forms the website map, facilitates the pages indexation in Google.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – allows to add the list of posts which are similar to your in the end of the post.
• Fast and Secure Contact Form – contact form on website with spam and bot protection.
• FeedStats – the statistics on quantity of your subscribers.
• Lightbox 2 – attractive screenshots and pictures loading.
• RC Link Redirector – hides external links – from searching engines to save your page PR from directing to another’s, links to the websites of comments’ authors + encrypts them.
• Seo-Without-Category – erases the word “category” from links structure of your website, positively affects the indexation in searching engines.
• WordPress Database Backup – allows adjusting the reserve save with needed periodicity and possibility of sending to email.

Certainly you can add the plugins which you want, but this is the basic plugins set.

Step 5.

The final step, what we did all this for, is Zamango M.E. plugin installation. If you’re not registered in Zamango yet, do it here. Fill in the short registration form.

After login you get in the control panel. Follow the links, go to Reflexive, BigFishGames, GameBoss and register in their partner programmes. After the registration you will receive partner ID, affiliate code and Contributor ID from them. Press the “fill in” link which is opposite to every partner program, write the received information there and save the changes. Then you notice “my channels” bookmark, it is situated on the right in the control panel. Choose the name of the channel which you like, the necessary categories and genres of games (we recommend to choose all). You should remember the channel name, because it will come in useful. Go to “files” bookmark in the control panel and download Zamango Money Extractor plugin. After that copy unzipped folder with plugin files to wp-content/plugins/on your site. Then press “Plugins” bookmark on your WordPress control panel. Find Zamango Money Extractor plugin and activate it. On the left under the block of control panel buttons you will find the button . Press it and you will be directed to plugin adjustment page.
Enter the user name which you specified while registering on Zamango.com, the name of the channel and the quantity of autoupdating hours (it is recommend to specify 12). Then press the button to begin the import of posts with games, after some expectation and pressing the “continue” button, you see that the import is finished. Go to your favourite website and enjoy the results!