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Yarrcade and its Relocation

kegogrog — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:51:39 +0000

Phew! You may have noticed the domain for this blog has changed. I am still in the process of moving all files and making changes to the database so several difficulties may appear. I would like to apologize for any inconvenience during this time. And there are still some images which are just placeholders.

If you experience any flaws please do not hesitate to contact me (it’s kegogrog @ yarrcade . com (without the spaces)).

Thanks and Yoho!

EDIT: Haha, I just deleted a <⁄script> and suddenly there was source code, but NOTHING on the screen. Creepy.

WP3.0, the true debug and depreceated functions

kegogrog — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:35:02 +0000

Nice. New installation, activated Akismet, BOOM: notices everywhere. The functions register_sidebar_widget, register_widget_control, clean_url and _c are depreceated. I just edited the akismet.php to get rid of those errors. If you like, download it here, unpack (.zip) and copy it to … Continue reading →

Monetizing a blog: Rotate Adsense ads with 5 lines of php – Part II

kegogrog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:28:42 +0000

A month has passed, enough (for now) to have a look at the results of the banner-rotating-experiment.

Over the whole September, both, the sidebar ad with text and the one with image, nearly got the same amount of impressions. BUT the text ad got NO clicks while the image ad had a CTR of 0.86% (not impressive but at least there were clicks).
So, with that result in mind I will change the sidebar ad to image ads only but I will leave the php script in to still have the example working.

Yoho!

EDIT: Deleted the script and totally switched to image ads.

Monetizing a blog: Rotate Adsense ads with 5 lines of php

kegogrog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:07:01 +0000

So, to test the often stated advantage of text ads versus image ads I did set up two skyscrapers (160×600) and use the following code to randomly (should be 50/50 in the long run) show them.

In the sidebar.php of the WordPress Appearance Editor I added this code where formally my normal AdSense code took place:


//AdSenseCode goes here

//AdSenseCode goes here

$random = rand (0,1);: a variable named $random becomes a random integer between (including) zero and one
if ( $random == 0 ) {: checks if the variable is equal to zero and delivers ad code 1
} else {: delivers ad code 2 if the statement above was not true

I hope there is some useful information in that for all you profit miximizers. I’ll check out the numbers for at least on month. That should be enough time to first of all show the distribution of text ad and image ad (in number of views) and their success (in number of clicks). Needing numbers for this experiment is no encouragement for you to click, I know you are all self empowered and just curious.

To verify that it works I added the random number which you can find right below the ad. If there is no ad and instead just white space means that there is no image ad available at the moment.

I be tellin’ ya all t’ stories. Yoho!

EDIT: The results are in that post.

Defining backlinks to see where your traffic comes from

kegogrog — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:36:45 +0000

I enabled MochiAds’ TrafficShareProgram to link to this blog. Right now the CTR (click through rate) is around 3%. This seems to be a large amount of incoming traffic but I can’t really sort it out on Google Analytics. So, there is a possibility to track specific links.

I just changed the link from

http://yarrcade.com

http://yarrcade.com?trafficshare

and now I can see when the site is reached from within the Traffic Share Program. That is possible with every link. You could put a link with

http://yoursite.com?thatgame

into your game and track what traffic comes back.

So, now ye know where t’ coins come in from. Yoho!

What are game developers doing while NOT developing?

kegogrog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:48:53 +0000

Just a qestion that made me think a bit. I know that some of them must be professional game designers or at least some sort of programmers. Others are students. How about you?

Yoho!

EDIT: Hey, that’s a question.

Blog: Improve your Google Analytics reports

kegogrog — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:02:17 +0000

I think of Google Analytics as a very powerful tool to see what content of the site is appreciated by users, how the site is found etc.

To exclude myself from being tracked I added an IP filter.

Just log in to your Analytics account, click ‘Analytics Settings’ (top left below the logo) and find the filter manager (bottom right, below the table of sites). There, click ‘Add Filter’, name it and choose ‘Exclude all traffic from an IP address. Enter the IP and add select the appropriate websites (don’t forget to ‘Add’ them).

Seconds later, you’re done! True statistics for the future. The real number of new visits etc.

Works like a new sextant made o’ gold. Yo ho!

Monkey Island: Deutsche Untertitel für Screaming Narwhal?

kegogrog — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:44:59 +0000

Software zum Extrahieren der .ttarch-Dateien gibt es im Internet wie zum Beispiel hier. Leider steht selbst TTG nicht auf derartige Anstrengungen von Seiten der Fans.

Schade.

Dawn of evil in 103 years?

kegogrog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:57:39 +0000

As I came upon a list of hoaxes there was one that stated February 20th as the last ‘triple symmetry date’, which was proven false because of December 21st 2112, 9:12pm (21:12 in 12h).
So, the more mystical approach was missing:

This date basically constists of three numbers: time (21:12), day & month (21.12.) and year (2112).

Alright, sum them!

2+1+1+2 = 7… ? No, it’s 6! *gasp! Does that mean…? YES! It is the dawn of evil. Because it is 666! WHAT THE…! What can we do?

Nothing. And we don’t need to. I don’t expect anyone of you living to this date. On the other hand, our children should be aware of something like: last day, Satan rising and so on blablabla. Who cares…

Impale numerologists and open fire! Yo ho!

Dieser Fisch stinkt!

kegogrog — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:53:07 +0000

Als Pirat gönnt man sich ab und zu auch etwas Fisch. Mit wenig Zeit auch mal fertigen Fisch. Der hier besprochene wirbt mit “ideal für eine ausgewogene Ernährung”. Mag sein, schmeckt aber auch. Neuerdings gibts diesen Fisch auch mit mehr knuspriger Auflage. Super? Denkste!

Neues Design (oben) und frühere Version (unten)

Der kleine Haken an der Sache ist aber erst auf der Zutatenliste zu sehen. Es sind einfach 18% weniger Fisch enthalten, Wasser steht an zweiter Stelle und mit Magerquark und Reisstärke sind auch neue Zutaten drin. Trotz “Mager”quark hat die neue Rezeptur auch noch 56kcal mehr pro Protion (halbe Packung).

Neue Zutatenliste (oben) und frühere Version

Ist derartige Werbung eigentlich erlaubt?