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My flash website OmgLasersPewPew.com just turned 1 year old! Also crossing the 30 million hits mark, I would say the first year has been a fairly successful one!

Over the next few weeks/months I may start making more flash games and using the sponsorship money on advertizing to try and raise the site upto the next level for it's second year in circulation. Thanks to those of you that have used the site over the last year, I hope you continue too! Please tell friends and family, use it in school and work, play a part in the site's rising!

I am also going to take this opportunity to quickly plug my new site BuyMyShizzle.com - selling designer labelled clothing at extremely low prices! Although the site is far from finished it is finally set-up with a PayPal shopping cart feature so it can be used.

I have also come up with a few big innovative ideas for new ways to make lots of money online, because although OmgLasersPewPew.com may not be about the money, I'm just the same as every other guy out there that wants to get his hands on some of the world's precious money! So watch out for new posts on my blog as I'm sure things will be revealed in the near future!

~ Joe Willmott

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17 Comments

May. 16, 2008 | 11:54 AM jmtb02 says:

Your Alexa rank for OmgLasersPewPew.com is 1,697,791. Your compete rank cannot be computed due to low traffic. Considering that my alexa rank is slightly better and has only fetched 7 million page requests over the past 2 years, wouldn't 30 million seem a bit exaggerated? Are you sure you are not messing up file requests and page requests?

May. 16, 2008 | 11:58 AM mooseisloose responds:

No lol the site goes through busy periods and not-so-busy periods, it was int he top 100,000 for a very short period... traffic is rather odd on my site =p

May. 16, 2008 | 12:16 PM Magical-Mark says:

It's because the name is so aweseom!

OMGLASERSPEWPEW.com I go there sometimes just because of the awesome name.

May. 16, 2008 | 3:09 PM mooseisloose responds:

thanks =D

May. 16, 2008 | 12:37 PM molkman says:

How come our site, exotworking.com has a rank of 290,980 with 2 million pageviews in about one and a half year? :S Or am I doing something wrong with alexa?

Also, the name is brilliance.

May. 16, 2008 | 3:09 PM mooseisloose responds:

My alexa.com rank is usually FAR higher, just suffered lately because the site was down for ages and I wasn't getting it out there at all.

Also alexa isn't 100% reliable and doesn't rank sites purely on traffic. I guess it's the closest you can get though =\

May. 16, 2008 | 1:37 PM MindChamber says:

grabbing games from newgrounds and posting them on your site without artist permission.. lol thats something to be proud of alright.

May. 16, 2008 | 3:08 PM mooseisloose responds:

I haven't actually taken the games it just uses the NG link thingy, like when you can share the .swf to add to your myspace or whatever using the newgrounds link to the file.

However I still see where you're coming on and if artists request removal of their game I do remove it! Also... allow people to sign-up to your site! I need to reply to that thread about me having OCD, I've had people messaging me on AIM asking if I have OCD because of that thread! =[

May. 16, 2008 | 3:18 PM MindChamber says:

"haven't actually taken the games it just uses the NG link thingy, like when you can share the .swf to add to your myspace or whatever using the newgrounds link to the file."

ohhh you mean hotlinking. haha alright my bad,, thats waaaay better. ;)

http://forum.mindchamber.net/viewtopi c.php?t=1582

THAT was you? Lol.

May. 16, 2008 | 5:32 PM mooseisloose responds:

Yes that was me lol

and I am hoping my sarcasm detectors are right (internet sarcasm isn't as obvious to readers as the writer often thinks) and i know im still showcasing the games but NG makes these games available, im not editing the games at all so the makers still get credited if they have it in their games PLUS i remove them if requested plus ng is credited for hosting the games and grargh i have ocd so just let me be! :(

May. 16, 2008 | 5:44 PM Nose-army says:

You told people puppies would die if they didn't sign up. Maybe that's the secret to popularity.

May. 16, 2008 | 6:00 PM akasquid says:

Sorry to take a massive dump on your parade, so to speak, but Hits isn't equal to visitors.

A hit is a file load. Every time somebody loads your page, 1 hit is for every image or file they load. So if you have 200 files on your page, every time that page is loaded you get 200 hits.

Uniques are what you're looking for. If you had had 30million uniques, your site would be worth a lot! But 30million hits is nothing really. My unpopular site was getting 1.5mil hits a month with around 700 uniques.

So yeah, your site is only worth a couple of $$$, nothing more.

May. 16, 2008 | 6:09 PM Snubby says:

I agree with MC this isn't really an accomplishment all the stuff is stolen. Artists can't request that you remove it if they don't know it's there, if you had emailed all the artists before putting up their games that'd be a different story.

May. 16, 2008 | 6:29 PM MindChamber says:

just because NG doesn't stop you from hotlinking doesn't make it right,
you aren't awesome because you use NGs bandwith to make money off of other people's games. and the fact that you make a frontpage post is a slap to newgrounds face.

"now at what point did i brag that I was doing it? =p"

you made a frontpage talking about all the hits you get from games hotlinked to your site... if thats not bragging i dont know what is

May. 16, 2008 | 7:22 PM Coaly says:

The fact that you're site just has a lot of content from newgrounds, or that you add games without contacting the creators isn't a bad thing, most content is made with spreading in mind. But like MC continues to point out, hotlinking uses newgrounds bandwidth....so you're quite literally stealing from newgrounds and profiting on their bandwidth, and a front page post about that, is weak. Use your sites money to buy and use your own bandwidth.

May. 16, 2008 | 10:05 PM squeakytoad says:

Yeah I'm going to have to agree with Mindchamber.
That's pretty lame. =/

May. 16, 2008 | 10:14 PM Fantoche says:

Sorry man, you're just taking games and flashes from newgrounds, you deserve no credit at all for the work. It's a cute site but taking the work of others should not be something to brag about, especially on newgrounds itself

May. 17, 2008 | 6:08 AM OdHero says:

MC is right, and quite frankly you are a douche.

May. 17, 2008 | 8:46 AM Archon68 says:

How did you get other people's games on your site? Isn't that illegal?

May. 17, 2008 | 10:24 AM Luis says:

booooooooooooo hotlinking. pay for your own bandcwidth dammit

Aug. 22, 2008 | 8:26 AM Achilles2 says:

The Meese

have been Released.