What special features does HottestGames.com offer game owners and webmasters?

Many toplist sites offer a very unbalanced relationship with game developers and webmasters, a relationship that mainly benefits the toplist site. HottestGames.com was created to equalize that relationship by offering real value for the games and sites listed on our ranking pages.

Here are some of the benefits of listing your game on HottestGames.com:

»True Hyperlinks - Every member listing includes a true hard text-link back to your website URL. Most toplist sites only offer http://wwww.sometoplistsite.com/out.php?id=12345 style return links, which do nothing to improve your site's inbound links rating. HottestGames.com provides a link to your actual URL:
http://www.yourgamewebsite.com
which will become even more valuable as the PageRank of HottestGames.com increases, by passing some "link juice" to your game/website.

»Cross Category Exposure - Most toplists limit listings of member sites to whichever category your site is assigned. HottestGames.com allows sites in all categories to gain extra exposure via special "Featured Site" top spots on every category ranking page, as well as on the main site homepage. The top 100 sites in the entire HottestGames database have an equal chance for one of those Featured Site spots each time the ranking pages are rebuilt (every 5 minutes). Many PC gamers play games from several different genres, so why limit a member's exposure to only their "default" category? These featured listings are a great way for you to gain new members for your game.

»Free Featured Listings - Most topsites charge a fee for Featured Site listings; HottestGames reserves these prime spots for our most active members, and provides the Featured listings free of charge as a thank you for supporting our site.

»Return Traffic - HottestGames is constantly fed with a large amount of gamer traffic through a very extensive marketing campaign on several major ad networks including: Google Adwords, Game-Advertising-Online, ProjectWonderful, Adtoll, and others. HottestGames is growing very quickly, and will continually be optimized and improved to provide as much traffic as possible to the games in our database.

What is HottestGames.com?

HottestGames.com is a multi-category toplist ranking site in which computer games of various genres are ranked according to popularity.

How are games ranked?

All games and sites listed on HottestGames.com are ranked according to a 24-hour rolling average of incoming hits from member websites, called votes. More detailed statistics can be viewed on the weekly, monthly and yearly stats pages.

How often are stats updated?

Ranking stats are updated every five minutes.

Can I list my game, fansite or forum?

Absolutely! Game listings on HottestGames.com are 100% free. If you are the owner or webmaster of a game or game fansite/forum, you are invited to create an account. You will then be provided with personal linking codes and banners that you can use on your website to increase your ranking.