As you may already know creating a flash arcade site is a common way to construct quick, easy and in great amounts websites that will give you a steady sum in $. You will not earn millions but you will earn a small amount around 1-7$ per site, now imagine if you can construct a large amount of this websites …. yea right we are talking about a nice income per day. And the great plus of this sites is that they dont need daily updates, if you leave it alone for 6 months with minimum attention you will end up with a nice cash machine, but a small one. I like to think of this sites not like spam sites but like nets in the internet. Ok ok they are a little bit spam but if you manage to give in every site a different feel, look and sum of games from any other that youve created youve got yourself a serious business.

Of course it depends what everybody wants from his life and from his sites, if you can make a blog - site whatever, that you can update it daily the above isnt for you, you will earn much more taking the right way. But if you like to create websites that dont need every day attention, update etc so you can focus in your real day job and keep this sites as a plus income, the above mentioned are for you. It depends!

My friend Mr. Sun here things that creating this kind of sites is a waste of time because:
1. A huge Competition exist:
Well yes out there exist 100s of arcade ready made websites so that its true, but i dont want to catch miniclip stats in unique visitors im ok with 200-500 unique per day

2. Returning Visitors are Rare:
That is not absolutely true, you are going to have returning visitors if your site is different from all the other bum arcades. That means different images, description, titles, theme. Need work huh?

3. A LOT of Storage and Bandwidth is Needed:
That its true, we are talking aprox. about 3Gb of storage and a good bandtwidth. But… I use dreamhost server provider and it gives me 5Tb of bandwidth and storage!! I can create 100ds arcade site with this stats for 100$ per year. So number three is something that you must not take in mind at all. I recommend Dreamhost for your hosting plan, out of all the providers that i used its the best, some times it offer unlimited storage and bandtwidth!!

4. Ad Earnings are Minimal
That is right, but as i said you are not going to earn millions but if a good sum at the end of the month probably a 3digit number as i do.

5. It Takes a Lot of Time and Money
Nope thats not true, it takes time at the beggining like all things but after that you will be able to built sites in a couple of days. Money consuming? Yea 10$ for the domain per year its alot of money man!

Dont thing though that this is an easy job in general. You have to choose hosting plan, domain name, titles, description, do some seo, link exchanges, themes, a little css and html, php design, right advert placing and some more. If you dont have a clew for what im talking about out there exist some tools that can make your life easier. Scripts that most of the above exist like options in an admin panel so you dont have to do much. Please take in mind that if you use just a script like this without changes youd better go and view a movie your friends cause its pointless. This tools help you job, its not your job and if you are going to pay for all of this the 5 problem above its going to be real.

The best out there (and the most used, take that in mind) its Php Arcade Script v4 it has many futures emdeded in like:
1. Built In Translator: Opens Up The Door To The World Improves SEO
2. New Template System: Allows for easier templating of arcades
3. Multiple Templates: Allows the admin to have multiple templates and easy switch between them for their websites
4. Mochi Games: Now You Can Have Mochi Games Just By Entering Your Client Number And How Many Games You Would Like To Pull Nightly
5. Comment SPAM Filter: A way to disallow comments based upon certain keywords
6. Support For All File Types: SWF, DCR, Video, Music, Images or Custom Code!
7. Your License Entitles you to: FREE UPGRADES and Support And Includes 2,700 games!
8. Have Multiple Templates: Easily Changable Thru The Admin Panel.
9. Supports All Media File Types: SWF, DCR, Video, Music, Images or Custom Code!
10. Built In SEO: Has Search Engine Friendly Links, Creates A Sitemap For Google
11. Shows Arcade Stats Always Up to Date: Most Played, Newest Games and Top Players Lists
12. Encourage Membership: Limit amount of game plays per day for unregistered users
13. More Links Means Better Page Rank: Link Trading System With Auto Verification
14!. If you dont have money you can find it crac..ed in rapidshare .com of course :} But i dont recommend it, this man worked so go buy it.

Yeap its good and i used to use it for all of my sites but i found out some serious drawbacks:
1. Is that you should made a lot of changes and move things around that it can take you lots of time and after a period it is a routine that remove the fun from the creation.
2. The biggest problem of this script is that everybody has it and and here it goes the unique of the whole thing. So i thought that my next arcade website should have something different from all the others.
3. You have to pay 40-50$ one time to get the licence.
4. If you dont know some simple things in php, mysql, html, css you are dead.
5. Everybody has it!!!

So i thought that maybe wordpress can solve my problem with its CMS platform. You can download it from its official website here. Wordpress has many plus that make it a must, its features are:
1. Takes seconds, costs nothing.
2. You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence.
3. Dozens of gorgeous themes FOR FREE!
4. CSS integration.
5. Integrated stats system.
6. Spellchecker.
7. Flickr, Photobucket integration.
8. Tags when you write a post and relevant tags.
9. Spam killers.
10. Multiple languages.
11. 100+ widgets for free.
12. 100+ plugins for free to make the job done. You dont have to do anything, form plugins, contact plugins, rate etc etc.
13. ITS FREE!
14. Many more…
But i believe that its biggest plus is that it has 1000+ of themes for free so you can earn lot of time when you create an arcade fun game site, anyway the theme part consumes the biggest part. As you can see wordpress its the winner in this combat.

For more info in creating an arcade site with wordpress you can check the pages below. This guys have wrote some very nice articles:
Creation of a Flash arcade site using Wordpress
Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress - step 2
Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress - step 3
Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress - step 4
Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress - step 5
Creation of a Flash arcade site using WordPress - step 6
Building a WordPress games arcade Part 1
Building a WordPress games arcade Part 2