In the end of 2010 Alawar’s Affiliate Program made all its partners a present – new game portals localized in Turkish, Czech, Estonian and Indonesian. Alawar definitely purposes to embrace a large audience all over the glob. Let us recall you that today Alawar offers different casual games for distribution localized in 19 languages worldwide!

Consequently, for all these languages special affiliate programs were started out, where the partner gets 30% of funds earned from sales of games. If you want to distribute localized games from Alawar on you resource, you should create new separate account for each language.

All games offered in XML from Alawar have been already added to Zamango’s base of casual games and users of Zamango Money Extractor plugin can easily distribute them on their website or blog.

Games localized in these new languages are not numerous yet, but lists are regularly upgraded. By the way, Alawar is going to start out the affiliate programs into the Lithuanian and Latvian languages. The greater audience is embraced, the higher is your earnings!

The greatest Russian affiliate program, a leading distributor of casual games, goes on its vigorous development on the European market. Alawar’s games have been localized into German, English and Polish, now and then this list have been extremely enlarged. Today Alawar launches localized games into French, Italian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese and Korean.

In this connection, the affiliates programs for this languages have been already successfully started up. If partner joins to Alawar’s affiliate program, he will earn 50 percent from the sales of English, German, Spanish, French and Japanese games, and 30 percent from the sales of all other games.

To be able to create your own show case and place the Alawar’s localized content on your web site, you should register new accounts for each language. When you register, just choose necessary language.

In the view of this remarkable event, Zamango’s base of casual games has been already upgraded with new Alawar’s localized games. To get benefit of this event, the users of Zamango Money Extractor should just register the accounts for the necessary languages. The following Alawar’s content has been already introduced to the base of game:

Moreover, we have added the examples of sites on ZME, where you can see those Alawar’s localized games.

Alawar has localized not many games yet – 20-40 games for each language – however, that list will be regularly enlarged. In the nearest month they are launching affiliate programs devoted to 4 different languages: Hungarian, Lithuanian, Lettish and Estonian. Hey, Alawar, way to go!

In connection with closing of affiliate program Zamango’s base of casual games has been updated:

-         affiliate program IGROMoney is removed;

-         16 games are completely deleted from the base (as for other games, they are available for download on other affiliate programs).

We advise all users of Zamango Money Extractor plugin to upgrade posts.

It is a well-known fact that Big Fish Games offers its users not only standard version of the games but so-called Collector’s Editions that are available only for members of Big Fish Games Game Club. Till recently, they were also available for affiliates. Today the situation has changed.

Start with March 02, 2010 the affiliates cannot place the links to free download versions of these products on their web showcase anymore because it causes “negative customers experience” that are not members of Big Fish Games Game Club and cannot purchase full version of Collector’s Edition after they download its trial version. That is why the information on Collector’s Editions will be not presented on partner’s XML.

So, if you place links to free download versions of these products, you will break the BigFishGames’s Terms of use and your account will be banned. In this connection, all Collector’s Editions ,which were available for affiliates, were removed from the Zamango’s casual games base.

To avoid troubles with your BigFishGames’ account, we strongly recommend all Zamangers to update game posts manually. Thus, after reading this information you are to push the button Syndicate Now on control panel of Zamango Money Extractor plugin.

Or remove manually posts of these games:

Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Collector’s Edition

Big City Adventure: Vancouver Collector’s Edition

Diner Dash 5: Boom Collector’s Edition

Treasure Seekers: Follow the Ghosts Collector’s Edition

From Zamango’s casual games base were also removed 92 games, which are absent today in partners’ XML.

• 150 games in German, 50 of this games are not available on other affiliate programs

The detailed information about this affiliate program you will find in articles dedicated to Alawar. If you have not joined to German game affiliate program yet, hurry up to register a new account.

Total number of games on Zamango for 16 February 2010:

* In the cell of this table you can see total number of games by affiliate program, which are available in one or another language. The exclusive games, which are not available on other affiliate programs, are enclosed in brackets and marked by green color.

Total number of casual games for MacOS platform on Zamango:

FreeGamesYard.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Russian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, GameBoss, TurboGames .

AllGames4me.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in English on the base of such affiliate programs as BigFishGames, Alawar.

LikeFreeGames.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in German on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

JustGameZone.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in French on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

EnespanolJuegos.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Spanish on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

JapaneseGamesForFree is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Japanese on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

PobierzGry is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Polish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GiocoScaricare is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Italian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

LaddanerSpel is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Swedish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

DownloaddoJogo is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Portuguese on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

TryCoolGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Hebrew on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Download-Joc is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Romanian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

AllChineseGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Chinese on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Zkustehry is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Czech on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GamesInEstonian is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Estonian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

HungarianGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Hungarian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Cobagame is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Indonesian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GamesInKorean is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Korean on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GratisDownloadSpel is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Dutch on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar and BigFishGames.

Eniyoyunoynamak is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Turkish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar .

Within the framework of using service Zamango, it is available such casual games from the following affiliate programs*:

*At the table you can see total amount of the games from affiliate programs that are available on certain language. The figures of green color in brackets show the amount of exclusive games, which you do not find at other affiliate programs of this language. The results are true on 19 November, 2009.

Zamango’s base of casual games includes not only games for Windows PC, but also for MacOS as well. Today Mac games available only on the English language at such affiliate programs as BigFishGames and Reflexive. Total amount of casual games for Mackintosh platform are:

Besides to our base we are going to add so-called Strategy Guides, the manuals for gameplay, which are available only on BigFishGames.

Every day we work in order to give you full information about the games:

• reviews
• screenshots
• preview screenshots
• icons 50×50, 100×100,140×140
• system requirements
• list of related games
• download links

All graphical sources, collected on different affiliate programs, are standardized and have identical size for all games. Besides all pictures, icons, screenshots are localized and presented on chosen language, i.e. one and the same game has got different sets of pictures both for English and Russian. Certainly this fact has positive influence on customer decision to buy this or that game.

As for game descriptions, we are going to give you a chance of making original descriptions for each created channel. Also we would like to place different banners, link to buy game, videoshots, reviews and previews. So collaboration with us is a great pleasure as we always try to move with the times.

• 743 games in German,
• 503 games in French,
• 420 games in Spanish,
• 177 games in Japanese.

For more information, read the articles on BigFishGames programs. If you have not yet signed up for BigFishGames’ partner program, hurry up join it now!

Now, setting up new channel you can choose English, Russian and Polish languages, as well as German, Spanish, French or Japanese. At that, your resource will be completely localized: games, images, descriptions and screenshots will be available in selected language. In connection with appearance of localized images, we advise you to update your Zamango Money Extractor plugin to actual version.

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!

It is necessary to make some important stipulations concerning the given table:

• Figures are taken from a website which uses Google AdSense besides casual games affiliate programs as a way of monetization, and consequently the percentage of downloads is small – only about 30%. The unchecked data says that if AdSense is removed and a site is used only for games downloading, this percentage can be 2 times higher, i.e. 60 %.
• The exact downloads amount is also hard to count, because some percentage (approximately +5%-10%) comes from online games (they also will be available on Zamango website soon);
• It is hard to count something from the BigFishGames affiliate program, because we only have the registered users and received money statistics. For Russian market the figures are approximate and are not supported by any data;
• bounce rate on English site is approximately 41 %, on Russian – 47 %. Consequently, if these values are lower, other figures will be higher;
• Also earnings figures are not absolutely correct, because there are constant changes on the market, for example the games price on the English-speaking market has fallen from 20 dollars to 7, plus crisis and CPM decrease… But this fault is not very big, within the admissible limits ;
• Such small uploads convert in sales shows that a part of traffic goes to AdSense, a part to BigFishGames and as a result we consider only sales from GameBoss for Russian-speaking market and sales from Reflexive for English-speaking.

If we take a look at games websites presented in the Internet now, and count their approximate daily traffic, we see the following:

• the mid-level website with games on Russian-speaking market have 5 000 – 10 000 unique visits a day, famous websites – 50 000 – 100 000;
• on the English-speaking market the average site has approximately 10 000-30 000 unique visits a day, and “giants” get 100 000-200 000.

As you may understand, this difference is caused by the quantity of English-speaking and Russian-speaking users in the Internet. Herewith the website promotion on both markets will take similar efforts, and the results will be different. Besides, you should work hard to have 5 000 unique visits on Russian website and 15 000 on English.

Here is a table with data, as an example there were taken 2 casual games websites with average attendance according to language zones (all figures are given for a period of one day):

From the given table you may see that for the same efforts spent on promotion of the site with English content, you may receive 6 times more money.

Hurry up to be the first; our Zamango Money Extractor plugin and aggregated content from all publishers are waiting for you!