a new site made by me named Vasnic a social community
I made this site mainly because i liked to give people space to promote about their projects and try to build a small community
Would people looking for games to play go to your website for promoting games? I think there are only people to promote their games. Maybe 1 guy of 10 000 visitors will click on your game link out of pity.
This is nothing personal. It's great that you have tried to create a free pass for game developers but these sites never work. I have seen subreddits for promoting but the people visiting there are just promoting their own thing so the posts there barely get any engagement/link clicks.
There are reasons for this:
1.They weren't meant to be for promoting
2.They didn't have ads of online casinos upon entry
3.They had advanced algorithms and features
4.They had millions of dollars for marketing
5.They had polished exteriors and smooth UI
Like dude seriously if you want to be taken seriously at least take the casino ads down.
i just added the ad i thought it would be ok its only 1 banner down below
i just promote this site with self promotions so its hard to get new users
if you dont like the site just dont use it
it have pretty advanced features and good looking Ui
and i dont like that you are tearing down my nice site find something else to do you have to right to have your own opinion but its only yours
Having a place to "promote" games is all nice and sound on paper. But why would it be any better than just visiting
https://itch.io/games/top-rated/tag-swords
or simply entering some key words into a search engine, like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=indie+sword+games&ia=web
Why would anyone visit a link promoted by someone unknown? Would you? If yes, why? The whole point of doing it on social media is, that someone more famous would endorse it. Maybe even famous for recommending good games. It is the curator princinple. You trust the curator, or whomever you follow for such recommendations. It can also be by metrics, like top-rated, popular or even new games, if you are bored. Or you would simply try recommendations by your trusted source. Itch even does such a thing https://itch.io/games/new-and-popular/featured
When Itch was new to me, I wondered why there is a follow system for users. Because this is not a messenger system. You cannot follow comments. But you can follow reviews/ratings. There are regular users with followers. The followers will get collection and review notification in the feed. And you will see Related collections on the browse pages to get inspiration.
There is no promotion in a vacuum. Either the promoter must be known, or the taste of the promotion-receiver. Otherwise it will just be random noise or spam. You can hit https://itch.io/randomizer for random games if you are into random games. Of course there is also just plain advertisement. Pitching the game to random viewers. Like making them view a trailer. But reading game recommendations from random sources is like going to youtube to view ads.
Oh, and your site has malicious ads running. I could not even access your page, if I wanted to. The current ads capture the page and redirect to several untrustworthy urls in a way that is only seen on scammy pages. It is huge red flag, and I would never ever give my data to a site running such ads to make an account.
I do not know how those ad networks implement their ads. Maybe some of those banners are malicous and do redirecting. It was different sites and I think I got an error message from the ad hoster the first few times I tried, because the hosted ad was removed.
So. You made a blog. With possibility of multiple people writing in that blog. Almost like a message board.
https://itch.io/board/10022/release-announcements
https://itch.io/board/13293/recommend-a-game
Diversity in options is good. But if you reinvent the wheel, you need to give incentive to use your newly made wheel. There are plenty other existing wheels already. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=indie+game+review+sites&ia=web
Using your wheel has no benefit yet. People do not go to a social site to learn about new games. But they might listen there if you tell them anyway. And if they do want to learn about new games, they can seek out curators on that site or even go to a dedicated site. You try to make such a dedicated site. Well done. But if it is only devs showcasing their new project ... I would currently prefer the release announcement board on Itch.
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Having a place to "promote" games is all nice and sound on paper. But why would it be any better than just visiting
https://itch.io/games/top-rated/tag-swords
well some people dont visit itch to view games so you need to get it in front of their eyes in other ways
Hi the site is also good for creating lists and collection with the option to insert keyword in the post for example gamesbycoa that can be searched for and linked to
for example https://vasnic.wtnet9.site/?s=VideoGame
the site gets about 100 visitors per day now and rising
so its a nice strategy to promote your games also on Vasnic it can not hurt and could help out a little