Hello,
I have recently tried out an advertising system called ProjectWonderful:
http://www.projectwonderful.com

I know Iiridayn probably has his hands full as it is, but I think PW could deliver much bigger revenue than Google ads for SkyLords, possibly providing some compensation for all the hard work.

- PW uses a "cost per day" system which works very well for sites with a lot of impressions but not necessary a lot of clicks - like Skylords (since a browser based game requires you to view a lot of pages every day). It would work especially well if you'd place an ad on the main "space" screen.
- Main members of PW - both advertisers and publishers - are gaming sites, webcomics and other browser based games, so it should provide targeted ads and a game like Skylords would get a lot of interest from advertisers.
- It pays to PayPal which is much handier than getting a check.

Just an idea

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cool. i'll check it out

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I think advertising Skylords on PW would work pretty well too. Of course after all bugs are fixed and everything. The cool thing is it uses the same account of publishing and advertising so what you make from ads you can invest in your own advertising at once.

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Also on the homepage there are links to World of War, Infobalt and 2-Breakdance. Unless Iiri is making money from those I suggest removing them and possibly using the ad space to display PW or AdSense or any other ads to bring in the money.

If there's anything I can do to help I'd be happy to

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Chaos:
Regarding the home page links, Zygi mentioned that we needed to keep those there, because they generated traffic -- it's possibly some kind of link-trading we have going on there.

Regarding PW, I'll see if I can get Roultedge to look into it .

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Well World-of-War at least is dead (opens a parked domain page).
I'm not sure the other side would keep their links even after a year of downtime that Skylords had, but maybe...

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Hey, true . Still, I'll keep 'em for the moment. It turns out that our site does have at least enough clout to attract attention from advertisers - a notable amount of impressions a day . So, we'll see. I don't wanna bug players with too many ads though :/. We'll see .

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I like it, especially now that the server is speedy.
Maybe not doing it on the space screen, but definitely forums, news, statistics, PMs, stories, basically everything else that doesn't affect game play.

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personally i want the SL banner gone from the ship page, it's annoying having to repeatedly scroll down in order to see space, -.-

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Well, Although putting an add on the space page would probably generate a decent profit i would suggest against it. It is already the page with the most to load I wouldn't feel right putting another object to load, however forums would likely generate a lot? (just my idea it might not lag too much)

There are quite a few sites like PW and it is incredibly hard to get good contracts. There are 3-4 power sites on each of those that get the 500$ a week contracts and everyone else gets around5...perhaps we could get one of those spots (Thanks chaos I have never actually heard of PW and always open to new advertising suggestions!

And yes lol. I would throw a guess at a link exchange, this would be more geared towards SEO (Search Engine Optimization) To put each game at the top of its keyword search but would generate some traffic from the respective games as well. A great idea and help but I may suggest going through the links and contacting the admins of the other sites and removing those who aren't there/no long want to link trade. I could also look into getting a lot more games to participate if you would like to try

Thank you for your input Chaos this could be totally awesome!

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Get rid of the top Skylords bar? Hell no, that thing looks pretty, makes newbies interested.

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