BKG Report, some stats right in your vein…
January 7th, 2006Ok, I have to do something to keep you on this website, so I will post some stats. People (at least judging by myself) are allways hungry for some raw numbers, so they can compare.
Brave Kid Games is website where i try to collect, show off and sell indie games for kids. It is online for 7 months now. It is not very actively worked on, because I have so much other projects and websites besides that, but it hasn’t been left alone either, and is constantly growing or improving. So numbers…
- google PR 4 (PR predictor showed that we will have PR5 on next update)
- 24 games, 3 screensavers, 3 online activities, 1 set of printables
- visits are growing like this :
| Month | Daily Avg | Monthly Totals | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hits | Pages | Visits | Sites | Visits | Pages | |||||
| jan 2006 | 2861 | 176 | 117 | 3383 | 705 | 1060 | ||||
| dec 2005 | 1879 | 109 | 75 | 13382 | 2351 | 3390 | ||||
| nov 2005 | 1236 | 88 | 68 | 3540 | 2064 | 2640 | ||||
| oct 2005 | 1700 | 115 | 84 | 8890 | 2604 | 3568 | ||||
| sept 2005 | 2394 | 178 | 134 | 4013 | 4038 | 5347 | ||||
| aug 2005 | 1169 | 67 | 46 | 1863 | 1440 | 2102 | ||||
| jul 2005 | 613 | 38 | 32 | 1118 | 996 | 1207 | ||||
| jun 2005 | 628 | 45 | 24 | 262 | 299 | 547 | ||||
* KUBI was released in september
* Winter Break & Catch was released in december
- downloads (not all games are on BKG the same amount of time)
Abracadabra 292
BongoBoogie 272
Androkids 266
Jr. Vet 250
Doulber Gold 212
Ignazio Fun House 206
Jr. Doctor 190
Argus Teaches Multiplication Facts 150
Garden golf 143
139
Yoodoo 135
Ignazio the frog 132
Sunny Ball 127
Lua Lua 125
Printables numbers 1-5 102
Minute match 99
B.I.R.D. 77
Screens. Dory 66
Screens. ShootingStar 57
Screens. Shrek 54
tRACER 0.3a 44
KUBI 42
Professor Fizzwizzle 32
Bubble Blitz 29
Seth 23
BreakQuest 22
Screens. 21
Navigatris 15
Bug Slurp 15
Shaggy Pals 13In total 3430 downloads were made.
- Only 1 game that was not ours (we affiliate) was sold in all this time.
- We made some money on AdSense (around $70) (last weeks after Winter Break & Catch were very good on adsense)
Now in 2006 we (me and my wife) will work on BKG site much more actively – we will see the results.
January 11th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Small hint: Throw a news item to gamedev.net & devmaster.net to boost those stats. I’m curious – how did you use AdSense to generate money (are those two ads the only ones you have?)
Btw – You forgot to put the URL here… http://www.bravekidgames.com/
January 11th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for your hint! I later read about it on your blog also. I also came up with the news that would hopefully be worth posting (in about two weeks).
Which two ads do you mean? First I had only that linkunit in left yellow row of all pages and few normal linkboxes on less popular pages (history, support). Now I have AdSense on 3 activities, on online Winter B & C…. and even at the bottom of first page. I tried not to and think I still didn’t owerload website with adds though. After releasing WB&C adSense revenue increased by 3x to 4x, but it’s still very small bucks.
I will add the link. Thank you for the first comment here
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January 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
I’m not sure which ads I meant, but I checked http://www.bravekidgames.com/ again, and I presume I meant these:
- the “ads by google” thingy on the bottom of the page
- “get firefox with toolbar” on the left
January 26th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
I just put “Firefox with toolbar” on a few days back. You missed “linkunit” 1 picture above “firefox with toolbar”. Now I don’t know if it’s actually good thing that adds don’t pop up and get looked over or a bad thing. I will experiment with the more distinctive colors for a week and tell you what are the results.