DragonVale Maximum Profit Guide 2.0 | Gameteep. FrontierVille Walkthrough. Inside Social Games - Tracking Innovation at the Convergence of Games and Social Platforms. Social Games Plant the Seeds for Growing Online Communities. A few month ago, we first wrote about the trend of fan blogs appearing for Facebook games like FarmVille and Pet Society. Avid gamers have been creating professional-looking sites that both provide a community for supposedly “casual” gamers, and share news on in-game changes and fresh strategies. As a new trend, fan blogs still have an uncertain future; some have grown fairly quickly, while others, including most that we mentioned back in October, haven’t grown at all. We spent some time looking for the more successful blogs. Four are shown below on a Compete graph: Keep in mind that Compete isn’t always accurate — it quite often underestimates traffic to small sites.
Worse, it only counts traffic in the United States, whereas Facebook games are an international trend. One simple way to track this larger audience is to head over to Google Trends and search for terms like FarmVille and Facebook cheats. That’s not all there is to the site, either. For Facebook’s games, that’s changing.