Make Games SEO Audit
Following our talk on wed about SEO by @dammit, and seeing @dislekcia ranting about the poor discoverability of Make Games, I decided to test out if I could find Make Games in the same way I found this community back in it's SA Game Dev Days.
Google > Game Development South Africa
The only mention of make games is a forum thread on page 2. SA game dev is still right up there at number 2 result. I realise it has a ton of back links still and it's got a prime url, but I feel like it's a dead site, no ways we shouldn't be able to out rank it. I mean for ffs this page is ranked first: zagames dot net/SaGameCompanies.aspx
Next I tried googling "Make Game South Africa"
And I got the facebook page. Again no link to make games sa, only the third result pointing to a forum thread. Which I find a little weird.
So whilst I don't really want to be responsible for volunteering someone else's time unless they are up for it, I suggest we give @dammit the keys to the ranch and give MakeGames a bit of an SEO overhaul! :)
tl;dr can't find make games from google
Google > Game Development South Africa
The only mention of make games is a forum thread on page 2. SA game dev is still right up there at number 2 result. I realise it has a ton of back links still and it's got a prime url, but I feel like it's a dead site, no ways we shouldn't be able to out rank it. I mean for ffs this page is ranked first: zagames dot net/SaGameCompanies.aspx
Next I tried googling "Make Game South Africa"
And I got the facebook page. Again no link to make games sa, only the third result pointing to a forum thread. Which I find a little weird.
So whilst I don't really want to be responsible for volunteering someone else's time unless they are up for it, I suggest we give @dammit the keys to the ranch and give MakeGames a bit of an SEO overhaul! :)
tl;dr can't find make games from google
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We should put in the URL makegamessa.com into the description on the facebook page. And probably give it a cover photo with the URL in. I'll supply that later. But it's not the biggest fix.
The biggest fix to SEO is to have, yeah, linkbacks, as far as I know. Heck knows we have enough activity and content - so I guess it's really down to real SEO tweaks with the site, which forms part of the design, but we could definitely get it started with background changes.
Good initiative! Love it!
We were promised that URL earlier this year, then apparently Korax took it back and made it a shrine to himself again. I am not a fan.
Though this time I do see a direct listing for make games down on the first page of of results. That's different and an improvement at least :)
I would love to try some cool search ads when we have the funds to see how those work for us (and so that we can replace the ad for vibrators on a search for game jams :P )