Are 'Cheats' sites still popular?

[Michel Z.]

I have a nice Cheats script with many codes and doing nothing with it.
I remember in the past that I used this script to set up Cheats sites, get some back links & wait till it gets PR, next I sold it between $500 - $1000 each easily! I am wondering if Cheats sites are still hot (maybe I will pick up the same concept again)!? What is you opinion? Thanks.

 

[rigrunner]

I'd say they were - my little brother surfs the net when he's stuck on games. He tends to type in 'walkthrough' rather than 'cheat' on his searches though...
I'd reckon it'd be fairly easy to set one up and running, maybe add a blog to it with a short review on new games (linking to places the kids can buy 'em).
Then leave a forum so people can add their own, talk about games etc etc..

 

[feros]

Hard to compete with GameFaqs.

 

[Indy]

There are 3 things I hate about cheats sites:
- Pitifully small databases
- Popups
- Sites that are stupidly difficult to navigate
- Shitty designs

Improve on those points, and you're onto a winner.

 

[Andrew]

Those 3 small things are why they make money without being #1

The thing about GameFAQs is people submit the cheats and walkthroughs. You can e-mail the people who wrote them originally and ask for permission to reproduce them on your site. There was actually a gaming website that was sued for copying someone else's cheats database!

 

[arz]

What's up with Wordtracker always reporting that "games cheat" is the most popular keyword on meta search engines? Is that really true?