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(MONTREAL)—Polymancer Studios is pleased to announce that due to recent expansions and corporate acquisitions its various companies will fall under the title of the Polymancer Group of companies.
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Along with looking at referral statistics for the site, I wanted to look at hit counts as well. The numbers look very encouraging and point to the continued survival of Gamer Hotsheet as a site. Here's a chart showing all the page requests (hits) we've gotten since we began gathering statistics in September 2006:
As you can see, we're seeing around 65,000 hits per month the last couple of months. That works out to around 2,166 page requests per day (assuming a 30-day month). That's a very respectable amount of traffic.
I've always known that gamers are generally smarter folks than average, so it doesn't surprise me that most of you don't appear to be running JavaScript on your web browsers (probably due to the many security concerns this can raise). As a webmaster, though, that's a bit of a bummer for me because the Alexa statistics tracking software, the StatCounter statistics software, the Google AdSense ads, and in fact parts of this site itself, rely on JavaScript for their operation. As a result of the disabling of JavaScript in your browsers, I see statistics discrepancies like this...
For May 2007, my web server logged 63,111 page requests at Gamer Hotsheet. StatCounter logged a total of 4,016. That means approximately 94% of the hits StatCounter should be telling me about are not counted. That severely impairs my ability to tell things like how many repeat visitors there are, how long they spent here, etc. Similarly, Google AdSense stats tell me that there were only 3,555 page impressions in May. There were only 13 clicks from those impressions, and a total of $2.00 in revenue generated. In fact, the site has generated $18.39 in AdSense revenue (total) since January 1, 2007. So if you have impressions of me sitting here getting lots of money and free games, I can tell you that's not in fact happening.
Fortunately, my costs for the site are still pretty low. They work out to around $5 a month. But what that means financially is that I'm taking in about $3 a month and putting out $5, leaving the site in the red. Since I make a decent living as a Windows Administrator, that's something I can afford. But when you count the time investment, which is significant and takes me away from gaming, it tips the balance against the site. That's one reason I've stopped doing the daily updates I did back at the site's inception. That's one way I can balance the "cost" of keeping the site going against the revenue.
The point of this diatribe is simple. If you've disabled JavaScript and AdSense in your browser, I'd like you to reconsider enabling it, at least when you visit this site. Perhaps doing this will allow you to see an ad that interests you. Perhaps not. Even if you ignore the ads, displaying them WILL help me in raising the hit counts Google sees, which may help GH get "better paying" ads. Note that Google AdSense rules prohibit me from suggesting or asking you to click on the ads, and I would like to make it perfectly clear that I am NOT suggesting that. All I am suggesting is that you re-enable the display of the ads if you have it disabled. What you do after that is no business of mine.
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I decided to take another look at Gamer Hotsheet's statistics this weekend, since we're approaching our first full year of operation. One of the available statistics is "referrals". As a webmaster, this tells me where my visitors are coming from. It also tells me if people are sticking around on the site reading articles or if they tend to (for example) come here from a Google search then leave. Here's what the stats tell me as of June 16, 2007:
| Came From | Number of Requests | % of Requests |
|---|---|---|
| Gamer Hotsheet Pages | 713,158 | 94.95% |
| 22,066 | 2.94% | |
| Yahoo | 3,196 | 0.43% |
| Podcastdirectory.com | 1,201 | 0.16% |
| Newsdor.com | 546 | 00.07% |
| TheMiniaturesPage.com | 472 | 0.06% |
| Wikipedia.org | 265 | 0.04% |
| MSN | 210 | 0.03% |
| All Others (958 Different URLs) | 9,988 | 1.33% |
This tells us some interesting things. First, it tells us that 95% of the time, visitors to a page on this site came from another page on the site. That means they're coming here and sticking around to read things, which is very good news from an editorial, advertising, and webmastering viewpoint.
It also tells us that MSN isn't a popular search engine among gamers. I believe MSN picked this site up ahead of Google and Yahoo, yet we get many, many more hits through those other search providers.
Since podcastdirectory.com yielded over 1,200 hits, this might indicate a need to revive the Gamer Hotsheet Podcast, which I'd killed because it took a couple of hours a week to produce and I couldn't tell if anyone was really listening.
The other thing that pleases me as a webmaster in this data is that we've had almost 10,000 visits from almost 1,000 other web sites. That means our readers must be talking about us, linking to us, and generally sending a little bit of traffic out way. Viewed another way (i.e., tossing out the 95% of hits coming from within the site and looking at only those from outside) we are seeing at least half our hits from sources other than search engines, which I view as a good thing, again from a "buzz" kind of viewpoint.
So, thank you again for coming to this site. Thank you for staying and reading the articles. Thank you for recommending us to others and linking to us. All of this helps, and it's all appreciated.
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From the Rattlehead Games web site:
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Several people have asked how to submit news to Gamer Hotsheet. This article is going to try to tell you everything you need to know in order to submit articles for publication here.The first step to submitting an article to Gamer Hotsheet is to register for a user account here. All you need to have an account here is a verifiable email address.
After you have your account, email your account name and a brief message indicating that you'd like to be authorized to submit articles to the address news@gamerhotsheet.com. Since I don't check that address every single day, allow a few days to hear back from me. When I write back and tell you that you're authorized to submit articles, here's what to do next...
