Open marcusnovotny opened 8 years ago
Hi and thanks for this nice issue.
Do you think we should put highest priority on keywords like "game of thrones" and "got" - simply because the chance we get among the first results on Google right after we publish the site is small. I would personally experiment with some combinations with character names and cities and so on. What do you think about this?
Hey! Yeah, that's also my biggest concern, competition and that we only have very limited time to get us ranked. I think we should still try to optimize for game of thrones and got because those terms are gonna end up in a lot of long tail keywords anway.
Character names & cities is a good suggestion. I personally put a lot of hope into our landing pages. I'll create a few of those as static html pages and fill them with SEO content, views from our tools, some statistics etc. Those should be the primary contact points for visitors from Google. I'll create another issue here about the implementation of Landing pages when the topics are fixed on Sunday, in the meantime please comment your suggestions in the google group! Any topics that you think are highly sought after / may attract a lot of visitors are welcome :)
I observed that the awoiaf wiki is pretty popular mostly because of the nature of the search terms i.e. there’s not too many pages out there titled Tybolt Lannister
or Salladhor Saan
. Is it correct to assume that by just titling a page with a unique name we’ll get first page listing on google? If so then we should definitely make sure that all the character pages are crawled and that the title is picked up.
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Hey! Yeah, that's also my biggest concern, competition and that we only have very limited time to get us ranked. I think we should still try to optimize for game of thrones and got because those terms are gonna end up in a lot of long tail keywords anway.
Character names & cities is a good suggestion. I personally put a lot of hope into our landing pages. I'll create a few of those as static html pages and fill them with SEO content, views from our tools, some statistics etc. Those should be the primary contact points for visitors from Google. I'll create another issue here about the implementation of Landing pages when the topics are fixed on Sunday, in the meantime please comment your suggestions in the google group! Any topics that you think are highly sought after / may attract a lot of visitors are welcome :)
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I think SEO is always part witchcraft at some point - you can never really tell how high you'll get. But I agree that there's a good chance. Let's put a bit more crawlable text on the character pages (at least alt text for the tools), there's no serious competition for those less known characters, could be a cheap catch!
Of course pagerank does it's thing, so having many different in- and out-going links will do a lot for visibility toohohoho
EDIT: which means, on our page: Links to HBO, to GoT home, to GoT official FB,...
AFAIK Google & co completely ignore keywords in the meta tags since several years already. You should use certain keywords (and related words / variations) in the visible text instead.
Edit: nvm, you already said
Meta Keywords can be left out
Yeah.. that becomes a problem with js rendered pages ;)
Google works well with js rendered pages.
You should however set a canonical URL tag on each page: https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
I am just posting this link https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/ so we can pull important metrics about the page while debugging.
@marcusnovotny seems like none of the items has been checked yet. assigning to @Andrew094. This has a new due date April 3rd. @sacdallago please monitor.
@gyachdav haven't been checking since today is our project deadline. Noted in the seo action plan that I will do my first review this weekend. Expect an update tomorrow.
contact me i registered the app already at google console
@yashha I saw that! Cool! I also learned something new today :D
@Andrew094 Hey there! First heads up from my part.
You'll have to rework the Meta Data:
Keywords in Headings are also very important for our ranking. seoQuake suggests always implementing all Headings H1-H3. Try to do that and prefer H1-H3 over H4+ if they don't exist yet
Character page images have no ALTs yet
Sitemap is missing, but I think we should be able to add that with the Google Search Console easily
Also ask yourself, if there are any pages we don't want to index on Google. Then we need a robots.txt ;)
@yashha Thanks! Let's get together tomorrow afternoon / evening regarding the Google Search Console, I actually don't know a lot about it yet :)
@yashha I couldn't make it today. If you want we can reschedule for Wednesday / Thursday evening, unless you get along the console already, then we might as well leave it out.
@Andrew094 you're assigned but I haven't heard from you yet in this thread. Would appreciate a response! :)
This cannot wait forever. Reassigning to @yashha
there's a reference to herokuapp in the sitemap file
here is the reference: https://got-stats.herokuapp.com/machine-learning-algorithm-predict-death-game-of-thrones
@sacdallago Do you make an extra google console and analytics account?
@sacdallago what will be the final domain name?
Need this information for the sitemap.
@gyachdav will fix it in a commit if I have @sacdallago answer :+1:
We should use both urls in my opinion But main url should be without www
No we shouldn't, due to SEO and compatibility with tools like the webconsole and anyltics.
There should be one of the both domains where the site is hosted. The other one should redirect to that one.
I prefer www.got.show because this one is probably better recognized as an url on mobile devices or chats like Facebook. (Like we see here on GitHub). It would be a pity, if people share a link to our page and noone can click on the link... :wink:
Thanks for adding the sitemap, good job :+1:
Please, if still possible, rework the metadata. I gave pretty detailed examples in my post above already. If you can't make it, let me know and I'll write the descriptions...
@mammuth got.show, no www. We are in 2016 :D
@yashha yeah! I have an analytics code that is bound to the google page! What an awesome world we live in
.show is so 2016, almost no application is recognizing it as an URL, and doesn't make a link out of it :+1: :yum:
:D yeah! I love it! Some DNS servers are like: WTF is .show?
@marcusnovotny can you please survey the site using the SEO tool you mentioned?
Please report back what score we get, where to improve etc.
Main issue is the metadata. For example, "A song of ice and data" is still used as the title on every page, see my long text a few posts above. Will have another look tomorrow morning
Additional text / changing the Headlines might take a lot of time. I'd mostly care about the metadata and the alt text, imo you can stop afterwards, you've done a lot already @ ProjectF. Thanks for that.
Hey Project F!
I’ve volunteered to oversee our SEO performance and was asked by @gyachdav to open an issue here to set quantifieable & trackable goals for ourselves. I’ll keep this issue up to date.
Overall recommendations (specific goals to be set)
Specific goals
Recommended tools
Please let me know if anything is unclear. Looking forward to working with you guys!
Marcus