These stats are for the 1st 7 days of January. Yeah, it's a gaming site :D, contains news, game info, maps, and yes...the unavoidable forums, which have a about 510 members (average of 5 new members register a day).

I'm just wondering cause I'm using cj.com currently and only making like $5/month, not that I'm out for the money, it's a "fun" project, but we've had over 41,000 map downloads, and we serve up an agreement page with every download, so it seemed like a way to get good exposure.

Anyways, I'm sure the target market isn't what most of you are after, but my curiousity remains. Thanks for any feedback.

Total Hits: 484007
Total Files: 275066
Total Pages: 14517
Total Visits: 4436
Total KBytes: 5345767

Total Unique Sites: 3729
Total Unique URLs: 977
Total Unique Referrers: 550
Total Unique User Agents: 528

why don't you try gettings some game producers as sponers for your web site. may be microsoft new gaming consol. i am sure you will get good sponsers from gaming world. try putting third party tracker on your site like webtrendslive it will help you allot in proving them the site stats about your web site you are providing them are real.

just my $0.02 :)

Thanks much for the response. I'll add webtrends live for better record keeping purposes. I have no idea how to go about getting the "big boys" to buy space directly though.

If all else fails, maybe I'll see if a host would offer a reduced rate account or something in exchange for a "powered by" banner. Anyways, I'll do some research, nothing is going to fall in my lap in this market.

mdj it sounds like i run a site very similar to yours

and this very subject has been our very issue,

we were able to at one time last year generate about $250 a month income for a couple month period

but as of right now we havent had time to do much with the site and arent doing any advertising

feel free to give me an email i could throw you a couple ideas
and some wins and losses that worked with us

marc@gamingmods.com