Game site advice needed
 

hey,
a friend who is proffesional game reviewer for few big game portals, opened site (with my advice) with reviews of indie games, it's a small site hardly to call it side project, it's more like a hobby.

site is rough, i've bought domain for my friend as a bday gift, installed WP, added random theme and told he "now go write smth, always pay to have own site" and so it's started..

site opened in january 2014 is getting around 600 uniques daily now, traffic is from google and from signature links from reviews on big game portals.

he is reviewing small indie games, adding screenshots, gameplay movies, trailers and writing everything by hand.

we decided it's not a bad time to monetize it a bit. my friend wanna sell 1-5 spots for monhly or annual banners now the question is where to look for buyers, how much charge for it?

any advice?

here the site: http://indiegamer.info/

if you guys can recommend soem better theme (ye i know, most would be better :D) i would appreciate. banner we would like to sell would be located on the sidebar.

Dude join up with me!

Would love to work with you guys. I actually posted about acquiring staff members the other day.

We can get it rolling and find a way to be transparent with the ad revenue too.

My brother and I are working on a fantasy sports site and for the banners we plan to put one of our own ads up and rotate the spaces so that each ad gets a fair share of views.

The site is in sig. My email is 1215xx @ gmail if ya wanna chat sometime.

If your friend is not shy he should add review via streaming like Twitch.tv and be like Click here to see the live review now or broadcast of it . People would love watching someone playing the game hes reviewing and answer question or listening to opinion live :) my :2 cents:

I agree here. Every time I'm on a gaming site, I hate reading the reviews. Video reviews on Gamespot & IGN were awesome!

Needs paid post & Side bar links
 

Hello Mate,

I offer post, Home page links & Banners on our sites, If you needs to increase back links Or needs to review my game links .

Please ping me....


Thanks & Regards
ANkru

thanks but i'm not sure what you're offering to me, is it about hardlinks exchange or some affiliate program?

right now he got 6y old machine with broken video card so he can't really stream much, but that's not bad idea. i'll tell him about it. he plans to buy decent vid card for $200 in near future, should be able then to do some streaming.

and your site is?

Long term, a .INFO domain may not be the best bet.

If the site ends up making some money and you feel like rebranding, talk to me. One option I already own would be this one:

GameJournalists.com

My idea was that you guys bring your content to my site and we work on it together. For income we can have our own banners on a 50/50 rotation.

Inbox me if you wanna see what we're doing.