Hi Everyone and Happy Easter We are beginning to get some exposure for our game and it has been picked up by a few sites. The problem is, when people do a google search for the game, Telltale Texas Hold Em, our site is not in the search results at all. Gamespy is first and then a few other sites, but our page doesn't come up. The download and purchase pages are links off of our homepage. What are we missing? Thanks In Advance Dan telltalegames.com
Hi Dan. Whatcha might try is this link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl That way you can send a specific URL for google to index. One thing that Might be thowing off google is the fact that the Texas Holdem page is a URL with a variable. http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=tth01 I think that this would be more google frendly: http://www.telltalegames.com/telltaleTexasholdem/ You might give that a try. Good Luck!
Dan, Part of the problem, is that not all of your site pages are indexed into Googles database. Your main page isn't for sure. You can see that there is no cache for your main page. Your main products page is also not cached, and neither is the texas hold em game page. If Google dosen't have them indexed, there's no way anyone will hit on them with a search query. Having only one paramater in a URL shouldn't be a problem. If you go with 3 or more, than you could be causing Googles spiders grief. Although having the actual game name in the URL as Jonas suggests should help the page rank higher for that games name. Putting dashes in between the words can help even more http://www.telltalegames.com/telltale-Texas-hold-em/ You may want to read up on some SEO techniques for your games name. It's currently not even ranked in the top 1000 by Google. You can see that for yourself here The Ultimate Seo Tool is also kinda cool to see how keywords are working for your page.
As a side note, this seems really bad as well. I clicked your "Buy" link from within FireFox and was presented with: "Activition of your game requires that you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer as your browser during the purchase process. We sincerely apologize for this inconvience and can assure you that we are working towards supporting all browsers in the near future." Sorry, I'm not starting up another browser and navigating to your page all over again. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Why not use a standard payment processor like Plimus or Share-it?
Savant, a good question that requires a long and stupidly complicated answer. Texas Hold em is definitely our trial run to make sure we can launch our next title successfully, with as many issues resolved as possible, the first of which will be better purchase support. SunandGames and Jonas thank you for your valuable feedback Dan
Put the words "Telltale Texas Hold 'Em" into the title tag of the relevant page. Google puts a lot of weight on the title to determine what a page is about.
Also change the keywords in the HTML header. "gaming industry" isn't what you need people to find you by, instead add "poker game" and the name of your game.