CBT2 Week 1 Developer Q&A

[Midrak]

Why should transfer Aionwelten EXTRA for the U.S.? Because sponsors money? `Hm. Really crazy..

so most of stupid America is seeing AionGlobal before us and assuming they're better.

They're not.

We are all the same why you say somthing?When he think they are better ok why not?Here are not a fight vs Member?

[akatriel]

If you want to improve your search results, start using h1 and h2 heading tags.

Currently you're only using h3 tags for the headers of news elements on your home page, but without an h1 tag indicating what the page is about and an h2 tag indicating what subsequent data is about you will never have your page ranked for its full value

my suggestion:

h1: AionSource.com: your English language resource for all things AION (use image replacement on your logo for this)

h2: each of the red "square chat balloons above each section (news digest, dev tracker, etc). Also, make these headings user friendly - not Dev Tracker, but "Latest Moderator Posts", not News Digest, but News Feed, etc. The clearer and more relevant the words the better.

h3: what they currently are: news headings. You are already doing a great job there.

And like Defiler said, encourage people to link to your site.

There's no absolutes when it comes to getting ranked higher, but I do SEO/development/design for a living and those are a few simple bits I always find useful. Hope that helps!

[plasma06]

good post and some good info

[Mark]

Originally Posted by akatriel

If you want to improve your search results, start using h1 and h2 heading tags.

Currently you're only using h3 tags for the headers of news elements on your home page, but without an h1 tag indicating what the page is about and an h2 tag indicating what subsequent data is about you will never have your page ranked for its full value

my suggestion:

h1: AionSource.com: your English language resource for all things AION (use image replacement on your logo for this)

h2: each of the red "square chat balloons above each section (news digest, dev tracker, etc). Also, make these headings user friendly - not Dev Tracker, but "Latest Moderator Posts", not News Digest, but News Feed, etc. The clearer and more relevant the words the better.

h3: what they currently are: news headings. You are already doing a great job there.

And like Defiler said, encourage people to link to your site.

There's no absolutes when it comes to getting ranked higher, but I do SEO/development/design for a living and those are a few simple bits I always find useful. Hope that helps!

Thanks dude! I'll look about doing that.

Originally Posted by Midrak

Why should transfer Aionwelten EXTRA for the U.S.? Because sponsors money? `Hm. Really crazy..



We are all the same why you say somthing?When he think they are better ok why not?Here are not a fight vs Member?

What are you talking about? I'm lost. ;_;

[lyankyj]

Originally Posted by Mark

Yes, it does. If you use Google.com we're like the fourth result or something, and AionGlobal is the second.

and whats first and third?

Not game-related sites?

[Mark]

Originally Posted by lyankyj

and whats first and third?

Not game-related sites?

First result is PlayNC's horribly outdated page for Aion, the second is ****ty AionGlobal (they have like 3000 members now thanks to their damn domain name and ranking in Google, not their content like us), third is sometimes us and sometimes Wikipedia's page for Aion, and fourth is sometimes us when Wikipedia takes our spot.

We're #3 again right now. It fluctuates day by day.

[dalin]

thanks to Irisviel for the translation, and to Mark for his unyielding diligence... may your Google ranks prosper...

[Kevall]

Nice work, ty Mark

[akatriel]

Originally Posted by Mark

Thanks dude! I'll look about doing that.

Any time

PM me if you have any more questions or want me to take a look at other pages or changes to pages. I actually enjoy doing this sort of thing

[Lakitu]

All other sites, except for the one from PlayNC, has the word "Aion" in their website titles, while AionSource.com has exactly AionSource.com as the title. Perhaps changing the title to something like: "AionSource.com - Your primary source for Aion: The Tower of Eternity", or any other way that can include "Aion: The Tower of Eternity", since that's what the game's called. It's a wild guess, but I am willing on raising high on the possibility that such a small change may raise AionSource higher on Google's ranks.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Lakitu

All other sites, except for the one from PlayNC, has the word "Aion" in their website titles, while AionSource.com has exactly AionSource.com as the title. Perhaps changing the title to something like: "AionSource.com - Your primary source for Aion: The Tower of Eternity", or any other way that can include "Aion: The Tower of Eternity", since that's what the game's called. It's a wild guess, but I am willing on raising high on the possibility that such a small change may raise AionSource higher on Google's ranks.

That's a good idea too.

[2aimless]

Originally Posted by Mark

Well...most of America uses Google.com...so most of stupid America is seeing AionGlobal before us and assuming they're better.

They're not.

Well i think like many other ppl here we all check news from almost all bigger aionfansites. So AionSource is just a ***** like every other fansite xD

[Shilenne]

Originally Posted by lyankyj

So are these areas they mentioned are for lvl20-3x or from lvl20-50? There's a difference...


DEL PLZ

Within the original article there's no mention of which zone specifically are they referring to. But I'm going to go ahead and say it's very likely it's from lvl 20-3x because I was scouting around the area and I didn't see any lvl 50 mobs that came and owned my face. They're speaking in terms of the current cap lvl in Closed Beta.

[hirantha]

i don't know about you guys, sounds to me AION wont be out till mid 2009... look at all the stuff they have to fix... The only thing i'm hoping is, i will be alive to enjoy the game.

[Shilenne]

you're trying to tell me you're dead in 1 year? that can't be good =/