I need some advice on my gaming website

I have a gaming website. I am currently making a couple bucks a day. On Thursday I made $10 and on Friday I made $6. With AdSense. My audience is mostly kids, playing at school, slacking off not doing their work at the computer lab. I get a couple hundred visitors a day. The niche is very saturated and competition is very tough. Though, I am lucky enough to have built a nice recognizable brand that 40% of my users are returning users.

Though, I've reached a barrier. I want to bring in more visitors. Tens of thousands of visitors daily. I know my site can go viral if I come up with a gimmick, some sort of scheme to get my users to tell their friends, and so on. I've added a Facebook like button, but no one likes the page, even though engagement is high, upwards of 10 minutes per user on average.

I don't want to reveal my website, but know that it's a typical site like Miniclip.com

What can I do to make people want to tell their friends? What can I do to bring in even more traffic?

All help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Make bonuses you can get only by sharing/registering and then sharing. Refferal programs? A good gimmick is macking achievements, and just play on the human nature of wanting to get them all unlocked and make one a sharing one that gets you virtual points.

Well, your best bet would be to run Facebook adverts. Target users who like your competitors. As you have mentioned, you have the potential to get viral and people like your games, I will suggest you to run post engagement ads - it will help you reach more and more people and create awareness about your gaming site. People will share your posts with their friends etc as well

Try Facebook like jacker.

Doing an achievement system would be amazing, but it would be a lot of hard work. I can't do that myself, and I don't have the resources to hire someone to do that, so that is out of the question.

Thanks for the Facebook Ads recommendation. I just set up a campaign. Let's see how it goes.

I will not use like jacker, tried it, doesn't work.

What's up with Facebook traffic? $1 a click? WTF?

Build phone apps for games, that go to your site.

why dont u throw a monero miner in the background?

Gotta do it right otherwise you will burn all your money. Start at $5 per day and start with post engagement campaigns. Create catchy posts that people would love to share etc

AgentD said:

Doing an achievement system would be amazing, but it would be a lot of hard work. I can't do that myself, and I don't have the resources to hire someone to do that, so that is out of the question.

Thanks for the Facebook Ads recommendation. I just set up a campaign. Let's see how it goes.

I will not use like jacker, tried it, doesn't work.

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AgentD said:

Doing an achievement system would be amazing, but it would be a lot of hard work. I can't do that myself, and I don't have the resources to hire someone to do that, so that is out of the question.

Thanks for the Facebook Ads recommendation. I just set up a campaign. Let's see how it goes.

I will not use like jacker, tried it, doesn't work.

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have u tried youtube? if u like playyingg gaes then u can just play them n record the gameplay and upload it to youtube n link back the game page in description or pinned comment. its easyg n wont cost u thing. how much is your average traffic btw? where does most of ur traffic come from? also why dont u try building an ig account for the site. its easy to get hundred of followers quickly n its good in the long run

also wouldnt recommend fb ads. i feel the roi would be too low or even negative

the above tips wont help u reach tens of thousands of visitors but u know drops make an ocean. and who knows some of your videos may rank in the top positions

You can either try facebook cj, or use facebook ads and mini niche

PM me, maybe I can help with some tips.