New Article Directory

I've started a new niche health article directory using the Article Friendly Pro article publishing script. This is partly because I've been having constant problems with the Article Dashboard script that currently powers my main Article Directory. The AD script is basically abandoned and, because it's encrypted, it's impossible fixing the problems with it. Pages in the article directory frequently time out or take a long time to load, which damages the directory's usability.

I've started the new site so I can test the new script out to see how it works before trying, if possible, to convert the existing article directory to use it. I chose a niche market to see how it performs.

New Bux3 Payment Request

Well, it seems that Bux3 has cancelled my payment request, in exactly the same way that bux.to did as I posted yesterday. Also, they've changed their payment terms - a convenient excuse for cancelling current payments. This is the third time I've requested payment from this site, and still not received anything. Their terms say payment will be instant; however, the cashout page states that you have to wait 30 days before payment,

New Bux.to Payment Request

I have today submitted another payment request for bux.to for $73.63. I was checking on the status of my previous payment request from April last year, and discovered it had been cancelled without any notice, instead of being paid. Not very impressive behaviour.

Flash Game Distribution

I've submitted Mars Slider to Flash Game Distribution to see how that goes. This is the first game I've submitted there, and it took a while for it to be approved for distribution

myLot April Earnings

myLot earnings for April were $2.85, pretty low and nowhere near enough to qualify for payout. Referral earnings were substantially down.

Kongregate Earnings for April

Total earning from Kongregate for April were $0.27, mostly from the Picture Slider game, and old game that I recently updated to AS2.

MochiAds Earnings for April

MochiAds earnings for April are as follows:

Total earned as a developer was $7.19. This is the largest amount earned in one month to date, and several times all the previous months added together. This is basically due to the success of one game, Easter Egg Match.

Even though there were a number of problems with releasing the game, due to making it at the last minute, it being the first proper AS3 game I've tried and the first time I tried using any encryption software, all of which combined to make the initial releases' leaderboards not work, which more than likely cut down on plays, and the only distribution was done through the Mochi network, this game still out performed every other game in terms of both paid impressions and revenue generated.

The success of this game suggests it may be worth while developing a bunch of holiday themed games ahead of time, and releasing them near the holiday in question.

Total money earned as a publisher was $0.04, substantially down from the previous month even though there was a slight increase in total impressions. This suggests eCPM for the hosted games was substantially lower.