Since I've been playing around with AdSense, I've been thinking about web sites
popoularity.
If I wanted to render this site more popoular I'd have to sell out its soul,
more or less.

There was never too much real effort towards popoularizing kazzuya.com. At some
point I tried to post some "cool news" but it didn't feel right.
Posting news is the easiest way to draw traffic. One doesn't really have to do
much other than selecting interesting stuff left and right without even writing
personal thoughts about it.
The news thing works if more than one person is active. With 5-6 people copying
and pasting some text with some links , one can get a continuous stream of news
that are likely to make people come back.. however, in the RSS feeds era, it's
possible that too many news will overload people and have them unlink the site.
Re-shuffling news would make me feel guilty though. Guilty of trying to hook
people to read random bullshit, to waste time to stay "informed" rather than
being active developing something !

It's also worth noting that:  read more »

I'm making a lot of money ! ...between $1 and $2 per day 8)
A lot more than I expected actually. Most of the traffic comes for JavaKazRace, which is being linked by a few Japanese Flash-games sites.
For a few days I was in the "week's 10" list in the front page of 69sp.com. That nearly doubled my traffic. I'm still in the Top 100 list on the same site though.
Many of the comments say that they "can't do the game". I'm not sure if that means that they don't have Java or that the game is too difficult. For that reason I placed clearly visible Download Java Runtime buttons.
Some complained that there is no sound track (BGM). So, I went back to the code, made a little research about the Java audio status and implemented a BGM player, but now I have two problems: I need a decent, royalty-free soundtrack to play 8) and I need to add clearly visible options to disable audio, because I assume many don't expect their web browser to instantly start making noise...  read more »