World of Warcraft Battlegrounds

I find participating in them to be very, very frustrating.  It seems that all people want to do is fight in the middle of the battleground.  Now look people that is not the way to win and get good Honour Points (HP).  You win by using tactics and adapting to the game situation.

I find Alterac Valley to be the most frustrating, because people believe, despite the obvious flaw that it rarely works, that all you do is rush to the first boss and then on to the second after holding a few towers or bunkers and win.  The first point to make is that if the opposition do the same all it becomes is a race and there is no element of PvP.  It is a PvP encounter, if you don't like PvP then go on a PvE Raid and let those who do like PvP play compete.  The second point is if the opposition use tactics you will lose.  The most obvious counter is to defend the first Boss with around a dozen or so defenders.  That simple tactic wipes out the attacking force very easily and wins the game from there on in, because the aggressor is immediately pushed back.

I am in the process of writing a series on how to play the World of Warcraft battlegrounds.  The first two in the series can be found here:

Warsong Gulch

Alterac Valley

Have a good read and let me know what you think.

And remember that the New to World of Warcraft website is probably the best free World of Warcraft guide for new players available.

I Don't Understand!

It seems that since I started pointing to my site's movement up in the search visibility stakes that it has suddenly disappeared.  I have used other browsers and other people's PCs to check out my site's visibility and I can now find no trace of it using the search phrase.  I am using Google in all cases so why this baffling result?

Just how can the site be visible one day and invisible the next?

Well Now, Seems Google Have Read my Blog

Either that or I have changed my browser settings somehow, without realising it.  My Firefox browser now shows my keyword phrase showing up on page 3 instead of at rank 3 and 5 on page 1 :-(

Oh well, so my suspicion turned out right, which is a shame.

Hmm... New Player of World of Warcraft

I've tried googling on variations of my target phrase "best free world of warcraft guide" and I find that my site is on the first page in all cases.  But I am now wondering whether this is because Google are using my browser settings (cookies) to show the results I want?

The only way I can know for sure is if other people can also find me using Google search.  Of course if they are already using my site, then they too will not know whether Google is using their cookie settings.

The only way I can know for sure is from feedback from the web community who have never seen the site before.  Can anyone oblige please by leaving a comment.  Cheers!

Success!!

Well, so it seems.  My website is listed, twice, on the first page for the search term "best free world of warcraft guide" (minus the quotes of course).  Please try it for yourself and tell me what you see.

Update, just had a search for my site using this term and it has disappeared.  Cheers Google :-(

New to World of Warcraft Facebook Page

I have recently discovered that I can create a Facebook page for my website and this will, apparently, lead to lots of people visiting both the Facebook page and the website.  This sounds too good to be true and I'm guessing that I have to publicise the Facebook page.

So it's a case of the chicken and the egg yet again.  Once upon a time getting Facebook friends was easy, nowadays though you dare not send out requests for fear of being banned for spam.  This is the case because I've received the warnings :-(

It was also not, in the not too dim and distant past, difficult to promote a website and get hits until Google set itself up as the nets bouncer (doorman) :-(

Oh well, lets see how it goes.