Virtual Ping Pong

Alan Biron asked:


A successful arcade site takes a very special recipe. Not every arcade site can become a successful recipe. It takes many factors to become a successful money making arcade site. Some of these factors include:

1) Design and Layout - This is probably the most important thing that users see when they visit the arcade site. If the site has a great design/mascot/images, and is easy to use, you will gain lots of regular users.

2) Good Domain Name - Something easy to remember and not too long will help a lot with users remembering your site. If you can associate your domain name with something easy to remember or even your site’s mascot than it may be really easy for your users to remember.

3) Games - For any successful arcade site, games should be slowly added to your website. Adding games slowly allows you to hand pick which games that are on your arcade site so you can choose to use only the best of the best and you can write original descriptions for each game, but the main beneficial factor of slowly adding games is that the search engines will see your site slowly growing, adding new content all the time, rather than flooding is with thousands of links and duplicate descriptions from using a gamepack.

4) Original Writing - For any website to become a successful site with good organic search engine traffic, the more original writing the better. Remember, original content is King. If you decide to use a game pack, you should write all new original descriptions for each of the games on the site, as well as any other original writing you may want to add to the site. Original writing will only help your site.

5) Search Engine Optimization - On and off site search engine optimization is a way to tune and tweak your website to make it look more attractive to search engines. This topic alone can have books upon books writen about it. But I will only list some of the basics. For on site optimization, have the keyphrase your targetting as the title. Have any pages with useless content use the “nofollow” attribute such as the terms of service or contact us page. Use H1 tags with keyphrases in them. For off site optimization you need to do some link building. You can do this by directory submissions, article submissions, blog commenting, profile links, while the anchor text of your link containing the keyphrase you are targetting. This helps your gain positions in the search engines for those keyphrases.

So know you know why webmasters create these free online flash games arcade sites and how to make a successful money making arcade site. Maybe you might consider becoming an arcade webmaster.

Gopal D asked:


Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit about me and the business I am involved in. I obtained my Masters Degree in Biochemistry in 2003 while working at a Government Research Institute here in Montreal. I had a lot on my plate balancing, work, school, and my real passion, music. Things started slowing down at the Institute and I was laid off from work in spring 2003. Despite having put in 5 years at a ‘’stable” Government job I was just a number, and eventually a liability. I considered it a blessing in disguise and took this opportunity to put all my time and energy to promote my band, the Integral. I’ve always felt that to really achieve something you have to concentrate on it 100%. If not, you’re at a disadvantage from the outset. I know so many people that would do anything to have the time to chase their dreams so I felt very lucky and vowed to make the most of the chance I had been given. I dedicated myself to learning everything I could about the music industry and how we could have a fighting chance at earning a living doing what we love. The music industry is so unbelievably competitive and has really taken a beating in the last 5 years mainly due to all the things the Internet has brought, both good and bad. To this day we are by no means living from our music alone, but that doesn’t mean that our efforts have been in vain. My band has created its own story from the ground up and in its 10 year history we have played hundreds of gigs, gotten good press and been featured on radio, released and sold thousands of copies of our 2 Albums (involuntary movement, and 002), and have managed to share the stage with several signed acts like 3, Trapt, Dredg, The Ataris, Pulse Ultra as well as a slot on the Vans Warped Tour in Montreal a few years back. The cherry on top was getting our second album released in Japan in September 2008 and touring 5 cities for two weeks in February, which was mind-blowing! These are experiences to last a lifetime and I have learned so much about business, life, and most importantly about myself. One can only fail at something if one quits and we have no intention of doing that anytime soon.

However, to keep going I needed to find a way to sustain myself and not lose money because of the band. This was always something that we, like so many other musicians have had to fight very hard to avoid. My only recourse was to start exploring new and exciting ways to supplement my income. Maintaining my freedom and being happy were my only main criteria, so it didn’t really matter how I did it. Of course, having done extensive studies in Science I have been considering returning to the Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology field in a Sales or Marketing position that could put the business skills I have acquired running my band to good use. The only thing is that being a salaried employee in today’s economy where job security is a rarity is just not that appealing. It will never keep me comfortably ahead of my expenses in the long run, even if I am as diligent as possible because the system is rigged to keep the masses down. The world’s economy is getting increasingly dire with skyrocketing food, oil, and housing costs. Last week’s disastrous events on Wall Street only reinforce this. The disparity between rich and poor is always getting larger. Salaried employees and hourly wage earners are the foot soldiers who are taxed to death while making a select few rich. As the saying goes ”the house always wins”.

Knowing that I couldn’t just accept this unfair system for myself I researched many ways to earn residual income that would permit my time and effort to bring me continuous long-term rewards. This in turn could afford me the time to concentrate on other things I am really passionate about. Most businesses cost too much to start-up and real estate, which I am very interested in, is unfortunately too much of a big-ticket item for me right now so the business team I have co-founded called ”The v-Fusion Group” just makes sense. We are a dynamic team that is marketing cutting edge telecommunications services that will be commonplace in millions of households over the next few years. Seeing that most of us missed out on other great innovations like the automobile, telephone, radio, television, computer, mobile devices, and even the Internet we do not, under any circumstances, want to pass up this opportunity. My team is excellent and is positioning itself ahead of the world’s next great technological shift.

My goal is to make my money work for me so I don’t have to work for the next 30 years of my life and still not have enough money to retire comfortably, which is the sad truth for most people. Luckily, there is a way out. If you play the system to your advantage in every way, every day, one step at a time, the tide can be turned. Step 1 is to clearly define what you want to do. Do what makes you happy and everything will fall into place because you will then have every reason to give it everything you have, without question. Step 2 is to take action and make it consistent. Easier said than done, and no one said it would be easy, but we all can and must do it. There is no alternative and we at the v-Fusion Group are determined to redefine the odds. Successful people are doing it all the time. There is no reason for the rest of us to not be able to achieve similar things. Of that I am fully convinced. It’s time to make success a much more attainable state of being. We’re doing our best to position ourselves ahead of something that will have tremendous ramifications in the near future’s technological landscape. Success to everyone with an open mind and burning desire to change the course of their life. The future is now.

 

Ernest Kent asked:


Video game testing can be fun and profitable. Do to the massive growth in the video game industry; they need video game testers. Companies will pay up to $80 an hour for your help in testing video games.

The requirements of video game testing are you have to have a video game system or PC to test the video games and you have to be 15 years or older.

Here is how it works:

1. You have to find a video game testing job. Finding a video game testing job can be difficult, unless you have a friend that tests video games. Once you get in to video game testing, if you fail to complete an assignment you will lose your job.

2. Get the assignment and video game to test. The company that wants you to test the video game will send you the game and a form that you fill out after you are done testing the video game. The form normally wants to tell them of any glitches or mistakes in the game. When you are done with the form, send it back to the company.

3. Go to your mailbox and get your check. Normally it will take two weeks after you send in you are assignment to get your check. In addition, some of the companies let you keep the video game you tested.

I hope this article was insightful on the video game testing industry. The pay as a video game tester is rather good. If you like to play video games all day long, why not get paid for it?

Working as a video game tester, you can earn up to $80 an hour to test new video games on your PC or Video game console