Unique content

Articles are boring. I need better content for this site and we all know it.

One of the things I've come up with is to post up playthrough videos of games I own on youtube and feature them on this site. I was thinking I'd start off with a game like Fire Emblem Path of Radiance since it's rare and hard to find and most people probably couldn't be bothered playing through it.

I've discovered that this kind of thing is quite popular on youtube so I'm thinking of adding these to Twilight Lynk.

However, I want to know what else you guys want here which I can do. Tell me what you want. Help me out... cause the future of this site... and the other one, depends on it.

Good idea, I'll try to come up with something else as well.

I still think articles are good for getting traffic but I would get sick of writing them if I was you if thats all you did, so I also agree that you need something else. I'll see what I can think of.

Yeah, articles are good, but this place would have a better chance of attracting people if it had other stuff too.

Articles are not that good in my opinion. I'm discussing the quality or the article, but the fact is why would a random visitor come to this site and read an article by a stranger? While this helps site like IGN and GameSpot, doesn't exactly help the smaller game sites. The best type of content is information regarding video games in general. Image galleries, releases dates of video games and equipment and such.

One of the biggest things I look for in a game site is if the game site is reporting news. If you're on top of news, you're bound to attract attention. Gaming news is what helps sites like 1UP and IGN become a force. I personally don't like those sites since they just have a lot of advertisements and still with a site like GameAreFun. Or, a site you're well aware of GoNintendo blog. Of course, when you report news, you like to get it from the source, not from another game site.

That's what I feel would increase the hits for the site.

@ Eva: Funny, I've discovered that it's quite the opposite of what you've said. GoNintendo links to a lot of no-name sites (so to speak) that post up articles and people on that blog visit those sites and actually read and are interested in what those people have to say.

Also, it takes a much bigger site than mine with a staff of more than one person to create such a database of information at to maintain it so readily so that it is up to date. It also takes a much more organised content management system to deal with that much information... right now we're running a system that combines WordPress with vBulletin which isn't capable of that kind of information management.

While I agree that news is a big thing that attracts hits, it does also take quite a big staff to do that too and also, I feel that other sites to a lot better job of it than I ever could... instead of posting up news, I thought what would be good is to post up news to discuss in the videogame forum instead. It is actually a good way to attract people, I noticed that when I posted up the WiiMotion Plus thread, we got a few people come in because they saw the link to the site on the 1st page of the google search for WiiMotion Plus lol.



Maybe you could think of something I could do which is maybe a little more achievable? I mean, it's going to take awhile for this place to grow and I need things to encourage growth. You gotta learn to walk before you run and everything you suggested has me doing a freaking marathon I'm not ready for yet.

GoNintendo has a huge user base. It would help your site when sites like that link to your site. I've notice smaller sites do benefit when the larger sites link to them. LoL, obviously that's not rocket science. If that's the case, then gauge what people are looking for, if you feel articles will bring the attention, go for it.

A staff does help. One person can only do so much. I follow another news blog of a different subject that go off it's feet with one person, but to be up to date. A staff helpful for that and many other things. Obviously, to get a reliable staff, you need to pay them, I doubt you would and can do that, right? People can say they'll help, but you know people have other things to do.

That's tough. Usually the only different thing I see smaller sites can offer is reviews and articles. Or content since I find larger sites like IGN only provide screen-shots or limited artwork. I tend to look for more artwork on games than those sites provide, but once again, that's asking for a lot.

I guess you could do more coverage on the less than popular games?

That's basically what i was doing from the start.

Oh, there is a way for you guys to help get exposure for this site... post up threads in the videogame forum regarding the latest news and link to the source of your news... trust me, it helps in so many ways.

Hey Lynk

Just a thought:
How you have over at TACC, where you have artiles/reviews of anime titles
Why not have reviews of new/old game titles over here?

I'll definately will contribute to sections like:
Sega Saturn (i still got one, and i can scour the internet for the games if I have to XD)
PSX
GCN
MS-DOS/Win 9.x/Win NT 5.x

Yeah, I'm gonna be doing reviews... just as soon I can come up with a good way to write them.

I write video game reviews every week for The Telegram, the largest publication in Newfoundland. I'd be more than happy to fire off my reviews after they are publishe; I'd just need to run the legal nature of such by my editor. Where I'm freelance i don't see it being a problem.

Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

I'm sorry, but I'm going off topic right now.

@Jon the Uncool
BEST. AVATAR. EVER.

If you are able to, you can post your reviews up in the Videogame forum. Forum posts have just as much ability to drive traffic than the blog posts do.