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November 8, 2008 at 1:36 pm
· Filed under Blog News ·Tagged Blog News, launch, new blog, relaunch, update
If you arrived here via my old blog at www.fingermonkey.wordpress.com then thanks very much for your continuing interest in my ramblings here. If you’re new to this blog then welcome and thanks for visiting. So what’s new and what’s not? Well if you had followed my original fingermonkey arcade blog you will know that it was attached to an arcade by the same name that I used to run. I no longer own that arcade but I still wanted to continue blogging.
After selling fingermonkey.net, along with a couple of other arcades I struggled to keep posting on the fingermonkey.wordpress.com blog because I felt it no longer really represented what I stood for. Just recently I had a bit of spare time so I decided to keep the blog going by transposing all the content from the original blog onto a new blog that reflects my current position in a more satisfactory way. I currently run an arcade called sly5.net (in case you missed it!) and hence the title of this new blog.
In terms of the type of content, resources and discussions you can expect to find here, that’s still the same. If you read any of my other posts you’ll no that I’m not one to put up with bullshit. I speak as I find and I call out the crap when necessary. So yes it’s critical and at times scathing, but I do my best to keep content informative and arguments relevant. If you’d like to follow me on this blog, please feel free to subscribe to my RSS Feed here. Please also drop me a line if you have any questions or recommendations. You can either leave comments on the blog posts or you can find my email address on the contact page.
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June 9, 2008 at 7:50 pm
· Filed under Blog News ·Tagged Networking
If you have a Twitter account let’s hook up, follow me and I’ll follow you back that way we can keep track of what’s happening in the Arcade world. If you don’t have an account then get one now!
My Twitter name is: craverz
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May 28, 2008 at 6:10 pm
· Filed under Blog News ·Tagged break, News, summer, update, vacation
I’ve been away for a while working on a couple of projects. I’m now about to go on vacation for a while too so there won’t be much action around here until mid-June. But I’m sure many of you will know that arcades are seasonal beasts. There are high seasons and low seasons. The highs tend to be in the colder months and during school term time (kid are by far the biggest arcade audience) whilst the Easter break and summer vacation tends to be down time. Summer is a good time to rebuild your arcade, launch new projects and get everything up and ready for September.
That being said, my WordPress arcade, www.craverz.com is doing really well right now and has broken the 500 unique visitors per day mark. Given that I’ve spent nothing on advertising this site and that it’s only been around for a little more than a month, I think that’s a pretty good average. I’m hoping that will continue to grow into the 1000s within the next few months. I’m noticing an interesting trend in terms of traffic sources. 95% of my traffic is organic and comes from search engines. The main search engine keyword for my site is the site’s name itself ‘Craverz’. This confirms my point about the importance of names in branding. I get a lot of ‘cravorz’ as well but have cornered that leek by snapping up cravorz.com!
On different note, I have one more usability review waiting in the Review My Arcade section. I’ll try and find time to do that before I go away. As for the webmaster resource video series, that will still be happening, I’ll continue doing those videos after my break. Thanks to all those who’ve been reading this blog so far and if you want to know when I’m back you can sign up to the RSS feed! Have a great summer all. See you soon.
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May 19, 2008 at 7:09 pm
· Filed under Blog News, Flash Arcades, Review My Arcade!, Tips & Tricks, Webmastery ·Tagged arcades, criticism, improvements, star wars, testing, Wookies
Iron-wookie.com is the transformation of a site that was prviously reviewd on FingerMonkey and was submitted by Joshua S. With a new domain name and some new in-house style, Joshua is off to a great start. There’s still more to do but I like where he’s heading…I just want to see some Wookie in there! Give us some Wookie Joshua!!
from www.vimeo.com
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May 19, 2008 at 7:04 pm
· Filed under Blog News, Flash Arcades, Review My Arcade!, Tips & Tricks, Webmastery ·Tagged feedback, flash aracdes, Newgrounds
This is the review of fungamelinks.com, one of the most well established sites I’ve reviewed so far but not without areas for improvement. In this video I take a look at fungamelinks and place it side by side with a site that may have had a little influence on it…
from www.vimeo.com
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