Can be found at: New to World of Warcraft Blog
I have started this up solely because of the need to have fresh regular content on my website. Google Blog is great but it is not entwined within the actual web structure of my site and therefore it is not recognised by the bots as part and parcel of the New to World of Warcraft website. I am hoping a Wordpress blog will increase the SEO value of my site and improve its page ranking.
World of Warcraft is a role-playing computer game once played by over 12 million people worldwide. It is a complex game with various aspects of the game a new player will have no idea about. Follow me and obtain a comprehensive easy to understand guide.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Monday, 27 February 2012
World of Warcraft Battlegrounds, a Series Continues
I have been very busy since I last wrote here promoting the site through link building, primarily through writing articles and publishing them on various sites.
I have met a few obstacles on the way, nothing new there then, the main one being that article publishing sites are claiming that Google Panda means that they can only use articles specifically written for them. This Guardian newspaper article explains it well...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/05/google-panda-update-endangered-species
The problem this creates for me and thousands and thousands of other site owners is that we have to have back links from other sites in order for Google to list our sites. We have to be on page one of a chosen search phrase to have any chance of getting the numbers required to make the site a viable business. The advice has always been to write articles and to syndicate them. Now Google is playing silly buggers because its search engine monopoly is being threatened by EU and US government scrutiny. Quite how article sites can still have contracts with publishers like me saying they reserve the right to circulate my articles, is a bit of a contradictory mystery.
The whole point in writing the article is to have that back link to my site. Google bots pick up on and follow the link back to my site. The reputation of the article site enhances the link and gives my site a higher page index. To show you what I mean: in the author resources box of an article I am allowed to to use phrases you would would put into Google to find information you are after. I use the following linking phrases to my site:
new World of Warcraft players
new World of Warcraft player
World of Warcraft beginners
World of Warcraft beginner's
World of Warcraft beginner's guide
World of Warcraft beginners guide
Oddly enough each of those terms will give different search engine results. Try them yourself to see what I mean. Just look at the number of search engine results. The link itself goes to my site of course but I'm referring to the phrases used. What the link tells Google is that I want people to find my site using those phrases Google tell us that we need lots of legitimate back links to our sites.
Be very wary of companies offering to give you thousands of back links. If Google does not like the back link it will hurt rather than help your page ranking. Quality is better than quantity, although Google wants quantity as well :-(
Anyway the latest articles I have written in my World of Warcraft Battlegrounds series can be located on HubPages:
Not any more as I've moved them to here https://game-guru-4-you.blogspot.co.uk/ and here https://learn-to-play-wow.blogspot.co.uk/
I hope you enjoy them and can find enough people to listen to you in the Battlegrounds!
I have met a few obstacles on the way, nothing new there then, the main one being that article publishing sites are claiming that Google Panda means that they can only use articles specifically written for them. This Guardian newspaper article explains it well...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/05/google-panda-update-endangered-species
The problem this creates for me and thousands and thousands of other site owners is that we have to have back links from other sites in order for Google to list our sites. We have to be on page one of a chosen search phrase to have any chance of getting the numbers required to make the site a viable business. The advice has always been to write articles and to syndicate them. Now Google is playing silly buggers because its search engine monopoly is being threatened by EU and US government scrutiny. Quite how article sites can still have contracts with publishers like me saying they reserve the right to circulate my articles, is a bit of a contradictory mystery.
The whole point in writing the article is to have that back link to my site. Google bots pick up on and follow the link back to my site. The reputation of the article site enhances the link and gives my site a higher page index. To show you what I mean: in the author resources box of an article I am allowed to to use phrases you would would put into Google to find information you are after. I use the following linking phrases to my site:
new World of Warcraft players
new World of Warcraft player
World of Warcraft beginners
World of Warcraft beginner's
World of Warcraft beginner's guide
World of Warcraft beginners guide
Oddly enough each of those terms will give different search engine results. Try them yourself to see what I mean. Just look at the number of search engine results. The link itself goes to my site of course but I'm referring to the phrases used. What the link tells Google is that I want people to find my site using those phrases Google tell us that we need lots of legitimate back links to our sites.
Be very wary of companies offering to give you thousands of back links. If Google does not like the back link it will hurt rather than help your page ranking. Quality is better than quantity, although Google wants quantity as well :-(
Anyway the latest articles I have written in my World of Warcraft Battlegrounds series can be located on HubPages:
Not any more as I've moved them to here https://game-guru-4-you.blogspot.co.uk/ and here https://learn-to-play-wow.blogspot.co.uk/
I hope you enjoy them and can find enough people to listen to you in the Battlegrounds!
Monday, 23 January 2012
Is Blizzard's World of Warcraft Cash Cow in Decline?
Players are, some would say at long last, becoming cheesed off with Blizzard constantly milking them for more money, and it comes at a time when World of Warcraft has been losing large numbers of customers. Blizzard are facing more and more competition and in harsh economic times people will look to spend their hard earned pennies more frugally.
World of Warcraft's monthly subscription must be the company's biggest income generator by a huge margin and it would seem sensible to start listening to the customers before more people vote with their feet. One of my biggest gripes with the game is that it is a constant grind to achieve anything. Why should it be the case that my PvP gear is not good enough for Dungeon raiding at higher levels? And why should people who like PvE Raiding not be able to use the same gear for venturing into World of Warcraft Battlegrounds?
I know the answers already, they were rhetorical, but it's making the point again that Blizzard are far too deliberate in their efforts to maintain those monthly subscriptions. Blizzard need to concentrate on putting "having fun playing" at the top of their agenda. I would love to try out a dungeon or two (masochistic tendencies you see ;-) but I'm too busy trying to get the gear so I can compete on a level playing field in Arenas. By the time I accomplish that we will already be into a new season and I will need to get the new gear so I can...
The point being I haven't got the time to get both sets of gear necessary to enjoy the different aspects of the game, solely because Blizzard keep moving the goal posts so I will spend money to keep on the treadmill. What Blizzard should be doing instead is creating more real content and tweaking the current content. For example some of the Battlegrounds are nothing more than PvE rushes rather than PvP competitions. Now we all know Blizzard are good at producing RTS games and it cannot be beyond them to develop PvP along similar lines. Although I suppose that they might not want to compete with their Starcraft and Warcraft products, but I don't see that as a credible view point.
World of Warcraft's monthly subscription must be the company's biggest income generator by a huge margin and it would seem sensible to start listening to the customers before more people vote with their feet. One of my biggest gripes with the game is that it is a constant grind to achieve anything. Why should it be the case that my PvP gear is not good enough for Dungeon raiding at higher levels? And why should people who like PvE Raiding not be able to use the same gear for venturing into World of Warcraft Battlegrounds?
I know the answers already, they were rhetorical, but it's making the point again that Blizzard are far too deliberate in their efforts to maintain those monthly subscriptions. Blizzard need to concentrate on putting "having fun playing" at the top of their agenda. I would love to try out a dungeon or two (masochistic tendencies you see ;-) but I'm too busy trying to get the gear so I can compete on a level playing field in Arenas. By the time I accomplish that we will already be into a new season and I will need to get the new gear so I can...
The point being I haven't got the time to get both sets of gear necessary to enjoy the different aspects of the game, solely because Blizzard keep moving the goal posts so I will spend money to keep on the treadmill. What Blizzard should be doing instead is creating more real content and tweaking the current content. For example some of the Battlegrounds are nothing more than PvE rushes rather than PvP competitions. Now we all know Blizzard are good at producing RTS games and it cannot be beyond them to develop PvP along similar lines. Although I suppose that they might not want to compete with their Starcraft and Warcraft products, but I don't see that as a credible view point.
Friday, 13 January 2012
Wow Nearly 2000 Visitors Already This Month
But this is because of an Adwords campaign and there is very little evidence that the visitors were interested in the site :-(
I decided to only go with two keyword phrases "world of warcraft beginners guide" and "new world of warcraft players" so that I did not attract generalised world of warcraft searches, but I am not sure how successful this particular aim has been.
Because of copyright it is not allowed to use World of Warcraft or WoW in the actual advert text, which makes life difficult in targeting traffic. However, the title of my website should give the purpose of my site away, shouldn't it?!
Oh well, I soldier on in trying to get my site noticed.
I decided to only go with two keyword phrases "world of warcraft beginners guide" and "new world of warcraft players" so that I did not attract generalised world of warcraft searches, but I am not sure how successful this particular aim has been.
Because of copyright it is not allowed to use World of Warcraft or WoW in the actual advert text, which makes life difficult in targeting traffic. However, the title of my website should give the purpose of my site away, shouldn't it?!
Oh well, I soldier on in trying to get my site noticed.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
World of Warcraft Battlegrounds; a series: Arathi Basin
You can find my latest World of Warcraft Battleground series here:
Game Guru
This one is about Arathi Basin and like all of my guides is aimed at new World of Warcraft players.
Game Guru
This one is about Arathi Basin and like all of my guides is aimed at new World of Warcraft players.
Thursday, 29 December 2011
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 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.
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
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?
Just how can the site be visible one day and invisible the next?
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