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This great stuff , few questions if I may , What payment getaway are you using?

How did you market your site

I have also gaming how to site that I plan to monotize but not sure how

Www.gamedevcraft.com

Any tips ?

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I'm using Gumtree for payment and distribution, it's worked very well for me.

As for marketing, I've just replied earlier in the thread with a little more detail.

For a site with tutorials on game development, most of your readers will be using adblocking software. Therefore most popular monetization methods are: selling a book, a course or locking off content behind a paywall.

Here's an example of premium content: http://aigamedev.com/premium/interview/dying-light/

Here's an example where the author sells the source code for his articles http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/

This blog is about all sorts of tech stuff but he sells his book "Game Programming Patterns" (which is very good!) in the side bar. http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

Gumtree seems to be only for UK and AU, is that right? (from a quick Google for the name).

Congrats on your work.

Sorry Gumroad, I often get those mixed up :)

Ah :) I did initially think it might be Gumroad, since Gumtree shows as a free classified ads site. But then thought Gumtree may have a payment and distribution feature too.

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