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ApolloxBambam Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 8:50:41

I was doing a google search and if our beloved little game here were to rank in the top 5 of google for "Free online war games" "Free browser war game" "free online strategy war game" etc. We would be getting tons of new players signing up.

To be quite frank this game is not out dated because last time i checked people are playing poker, risk, monopoly etc which are all classic favorite by everyone and i believe this game falls into the same catagory. It just needs to be a option top the people who want to play a new game.

Who is a SEO Specialist here?

zygotic Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 10:34:15

Could give new clans a break instead of farming them into the ground.
Imagine you sign up for a new game and get hit 8 times a day for the first week, your hardly going to stick at it

Buch Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 14:06:20

Originally posted by zygotic:
Could give new clans a break instead of farming them into the ground.
Imagine you sign up for a new game and get hit 8 times a day for the first week, your hardly going to stick at it


Thats not an option.

K_L Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 14:15:12

Hookers and Blackjack

DruncK Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 14:40:23

Someone gotta pull a TJ Henderson and put a commercial for EE on during the Superbowl.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 15:40:43

drunck has 5m bucks to be spent on ad during superbowl?
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

sinistril Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 16:46:12

We need a new slogan. How about "I mean, have you seen the other games"? Think that one's taken?
If you give a man some fire, he'll be warm for awhile. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 19:11:02

doubt it.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Hel_TKS Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 19:51:57

Nudepics.

Ivan will start.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 19:57:28

HEL(L) NO.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Syko_Killa Game profile

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Jul 22nd 2017, 20:44:28

I remember seeing a picture of ivan once in SoF site. He was compared to dr evil. There was an uncanny resemblance.
Do as I say, not as I do.

Requiem Game profile

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Jul 23rd 2017, 1:55:05

Originally posted by ApolloxBambam:


Who is a SEO Specialist here?


So Pang a game dev kinda does that for a living!

DruncK Game profile

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Jul 23rd 2017, 2:09:41

Originally posted by Marshal:
drunck has 5m bucks to be spent on ad during superbowl?


No, all you have to do is sneak in the DVD into their control room. Duh.

ApolloxBambam Game profile

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Jul 23rd 2017, 5:24:24

I have the experience in SEO and Marketing to make this game the BEST Online Strategy War Game and would be willing to lead the invasion on google with my own funds and would like a trained group of 3 or 4 commandos to help me penetrate the rankings and silently slaughter the competition.

I have many SEO Accomplishments and have been playing EE/Earth 2025 since 2001. I am a fan now and forever of this game code and like I said before it really takes me back to being a kid and playing Monopoly, Risk, Chess, Etc and I consider this game in my opinion to rank in the same class as those all american and worldwide favorite games. People just need to know what it is and since SWIRVE the origonal brand that hosted Utopia, Earth2025, and some Fanstasy Sports Leagues back in the day sold out there has been no branding or marketing whats so ever the previous owners inherited or bought a small diamond and due to the fact they had no idea how to market their game on the search engines it diwndled from 10's of thounsands of players to what we have here now a bunch sentimental folks who play the game out of habit longing for the glory days that will never return unless somebody who can get the job done takes charge.

Honestly it doesnt matter if you get hit or not it matters that for ever cry baby who quits playing the game because they got attacked we need to replace them with 2 new players who find the game through the search engines.

This game needs to be an option anywhere that classic war games and strategy games are being listed

Where are my commandos at that know SEO like I do so we can exchange ideas and brain storm how to make this game great again.

DerrickICN Game profile

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Jul 23rd 2017, 5:30:37

#MakeEarthGreatAgain

ApolloxBambam Game profile

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Jul 23rd 2017, 5:36:49

@DerrickICN you would be a great campaign manager.

#MakeEarthGreatAgain

ApolloxBambam Game profile

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Jul 24th 2017, 6:47:49

Do I have anyone that wants to take on this project with me?

I can tell you that I promise to increase the player base x3 if you join my crew

m0bzta Game profile

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Jul 24th 2017, 6:57:21

waves to Apollo
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sinistril Game profile

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Jul 24th 2017, 7:55:48

I know nothing about SEO but just give me ways I can help, I wouldn't mind learning a thing or two.
If you give a man some fire, he'll be warm for awhile. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

ApolloxBambam Game profile

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Jul 24th 2017, 8:41:58

waves @ m0bzta; how you been old buddy?

@Sinistril whats the best way to contact you? From what i've read so far your the perfect person for my team of door busters. Your willing to learn and that's all you need to come to the weekly #MakeEarthGreatAgain war meetings. Thanks for joining the crew Sinistril Earth will thank you later.

So let's prepare ourselves for the weekly meeting.

If we're going to break into the google rankings to attract new players to rape and pillage we need to be found through common keywords that people ages 13 - 45 would search when looking for a great game like Earth Empires to play. I'm going choose 3 keywords which i think will benefit the game if it's found under those keywords. Now remember these are the dominate keywords and 100's if not 1000's of longer tail keyword and off variations will bring Earth Empires up in the google search once we rank for these 3.

I've chosen the following 3 keyswords(you can click the link and see our competition)

1. https://www.google.com/#q=text+war+game
2. https://www.google.com/#q=Browser+War+Game
3. https://www.google.com/#q=free+online+war+game

When i was 13 and looking for a game to play these were some of the dominate terms I would search for and how i origonally came across Earth2025 when swirve was marketing it swell. I know alot of you might throw your .02 in and say that well nobody will want to play the game because it doesn't have graphics. Well lets remember something folks GOOGLE reads text through a bot crawler so it doesnt matter how cool or how sophisticated your graphics or gameplay is at the end of the day google only cares about words and text that's it. So since this game is heavy on text it will really reap the rewards from google when there bots crawl the website.

We need to figure out what the competition is doing to rank for these keyword terms that we chose and how we can do what they are doing and do it even better to rank higher then them on the charts. In order to get new players we just need to be a option. This game is easy to play and doesnt take much time in a day perfect for students and people who have office jobs. We need to market it that way so that those people find this game so that is another thing we are going to go over.

We need to fix our onpage seo which will require cooperation with the game owner so if anyone could point me in the right direction to talk to the gentleman who owns Earth Empires i would like to suggest some phrases to add into the content of the website on certain pages which will help us with our on page SEO. Also we need to do some interlinking to other pages within the website hyperlinking some of the keywords and directing them to a url on the Earth Empires website which has something to do with that keywords that we want to rank for.

Next we work on our off page seo and brand recognation by making sure that all the current links that point to earth empires are hyperlinked to the brand name Earth Empires or if it's an image the Alt text says Earth Empires. The reason for this is because google is big on branding any link that's not an internal link needs to be hyperlinked as the brand name, half brand names, or different variations of the url.

You might be thinking well how could we ever know who all links to Earth Empires

I've compiled in a spreadsheet a complete list of all of the websites that currently link to EarthEmpires.com which totals over 220.

(to be continued)

Please add your input to this i would really link this to be a social/community experiment that we all do together.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 24th 2017, 14:27:11

main competitors are wot et co and those have fancier graphics etc.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

AtomicHellFire Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 1:00:03

I joined last set and got 3 new guys/gals to join, I asked a lot of other people to check the game out and all their responses where that it looked very outdated, no images or anything interesting just all text! I've played similar games to this that have a few pictures and background images with a neater layout and it made a huge difference!

If no one is going to put the time and effort into sprucing up the game please don't winge about people not wanting to play it! It's straight from the 90s there's a lot of competition now so even though it's a good game it's has a outdated look.

Mister Ed Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 2:30:58

The best way to get more players is to create an official Facebook page for the earth empires alliance server. Do THAT and watch the page get a couple thousand followers in no time. Whomever has the power/authority to create an "official" Facebook page for earth empires alliance server- please do so and then post the link here.

IgnitionCWG Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 3:43:56

I suggested a tutorial mode as well
*Splat*

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 12:39:46

pang, qz and izarc are game admins so they have authority to make totally official ee-page to fb.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Mister Ed Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 17:24:17

Originally posted by Marshal:
pang, qz and izarc are game admins so they have authority to make totally official ee-page to fb.

Ok so how do we get them to do it???

Servant Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 17:33:24

As far back as 2010/2011

I was advocating that we separate off alliance players from the rest of the servers completely....

And create an area where newer players can come, create, and build, to be followed by a low integration process 1-2 years down the road. alliance server is true survival of the fittest, and for years has been eating itself alive.

SEO, facebook, apps etc won't fix anything, till we build a system, to develop and train new players without getting destroyed.

Unfortunately, no one wants do the work:)
Z is #1

Mister Ed Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 19:02:40

Originally posted by Servant:
As far back as 2010/2011

I was advocating that we separate off alliance players from the rest of the servers completely....

And create an area where newer players can come, create, and build, to be followed by a low integration process 1-2 years down the road. alliance server is true survival of the fittest, and for years has been eating itself alive.

SEO, facebook, apps etc won't fix anything, till we build a system, to develop and train new players without getting destroyed.

Unfortunately, no one wants do the work:)

A Facebook page where formation can be shared and questions answered would help tremendously. Somebody earlier attacked me because they thought I was a restart of a country that had straight up hated on them. He figured out it wasn't me. When I asked him how he said it was from "estats " which of course I have no clue what that is or how to even nderstand it. A central Facebook page where detailed information can be given and a page admin willing to use Facebook messenger to interact and answer in real time would be very beneficial.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 27th 2017, 19:25:30

Originally posted by Mister Ed:
Originally posted by Marshal:
pang, qz and izarc are game admins so they have authority to make totally official ee-page to fb.


Ok so how do we get them to do it???


msg to pang and/or izarc (those 2 are most active and qz hasn't been sighted since ......) and tell either of both to make official ee fb page (unless there's 1 already) and add all earthers who use fb as friends. bad news is that neither of p or i is active enuf to be answering into questions so that role falls upon ee fbers.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Taveren Game profile

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Jul 28th 2017, 3:18:35

We should make a sex tape.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Skype: som3thingclassy

Pang Game profile

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Jul 28th 2017, 3:48:36

Good ideas in this thread. I agree with the both the comments about growing our inbound marketing potential and improving the on-site experience in terms of training and ramp up.

The most common feedback I get is that people have a hard time ramping up on the game -- especially the nuance of the alliance server. I think we need to fix that experience before inbound marketing will be effective in retaining users.

Also, there is a Facebook group but it's horribly inactive.
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SPARTACUS

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Jul 28th 2017, 3:52:10

Originally posted by Taveren:
We should make a sex tape.


More players not less

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 28th 2017, 12:59:14

Originally posted by SPARTACUS:
Originally posted by Taveren:
We should make a sex tape.


More players not less


well i think we have quite wide age range of women playing ee so no matter if audience wants granny or middleaged or younger porn.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Alcedes Game profile

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Jul 28th 2017, 16:54:59

i just signed up. :D

Pang Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 2:17:25

Welcome!! :)
-=Pang=-
Earth Empires Staff
pangaea [at] earthempires [dot] com

Boxcar - Earth Empires Clan & Alliance Hosting
http://www.boxcarhosting.com

Detmer Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 4:41:16

1) Your Google search results are super biased based on your browsing history
2) As Req noted, we literally have an admin who is an SEO professional. I suspect (without data) a bigger problem is the number of people searching for "free browser war game". If we really wanted to get new players searches for "big tits" would point to EE.

Syko_Killa Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 4:42:12

you can add common lettering search engine stuff for google. You could add Earth 2025 and have the link to this website popup.
Do as I say, not as I do.

Marshal Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 10:24:18

earth2025 search brings ee as 1st result. sadly that brings old players back only/mostly.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Pang Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 15:47:25


To detmer and req's point -> I don't do much SEO work anymore -- I got tired of it. It wasn't interesting to me anymore so I put my focus back toward product development, which is what I do nowadays :p

But I did optimize a few keywords back in the day, Earth 2025 was one of them as Marshal has found. The prevailing thought was that people who were coming back were more likely to pick the game up and play than new players who don't know anything about the game.

I figured that Apollo did or would do keyword research to validate what is worth targeting. That being said, it doesn't change my initial opinion that putting effort into inbound marketing of users who don't know about the game won't be very sticky and thus not worth the effort yet. So let's try to get some more content work done :D
-=Pang=-
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pangaea [at] earthempires [dot] com

Boxcar - Earth Empires Clan & Alliance Hosting
http://www.boxcarhosting.com

DruncK Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 22:36:47

Get some YouTube personalities to promote it

KSFRekuyukai Game profile

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Jul 29th 2017, 23:12:25

DruncK with how you play on team most new people would just quit after you decided to "randomly" declare on them.

DruncK Game profile

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Jul 30th 2017, 12:52:33

Originally posted by KSFRekuyukai:
DruncK with how you play on team most new people would just quit after you decided to "randomly" declare on them.


It's not all about you bud. War is part of the game, quite a big part actually. I don't get why all you snowflakes think the game is only about being crappy tree huggers.

Mister Ed Game profile

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Jul 31st 2017, 2:59:53

Originally posted by Pang:
Good ideas in this thread. I agree with the both the comments about growing our inbound marketing potential and improving the on-site experience in terms of training and ramp up.

The most common feedback I get is that people have a hard time ramping up on the game -- especially the nuance of the alliance server. I think we need to fix that experience before inbound marketing will be effective in retaining users.

Also, there is a Facebook group but it's horribly inactive.

Yes I noticed the inactive facebook-that's why I had a suggestion to make an "official" facebook page/group AND to make it for the Alliance server not just all of earth empires in general.

Alcedes Game profile

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Jul 31st 2017, 13:20:18

Originally posted by Pang:
Welcome!! :)

Thanks! :D

Pteppic Game profile

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Jul 31st 2017, 19:05:51

If a new player actually joins alliance automatically put him in an alliance for the first reset (and inform the alliance leader) so that he has not got to look for one and his country gets farmed before he knows what's happening.

sinistril Game profile

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Jul 31st 2017, 19:21:22

That's a terrible idea lol
If you give a man some fire, he'll be warm for awhile. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Mortician

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Jul 31st 2017, 19:48:22

its just like life, learn by hard knocks

mrcuban Game profile

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Jul 31st 2017, 21:27:58

Put on new account form a tick boz option for 'are you a new player?' . if yes they are auto put into a tag for 1-2 sets that cannot be grabbed and can only grab bots. And run a tutorial ?

Its work, but I wouldn't do any inbound marketing without it. Some of the current player base attitudes in ee need to change before any $$ spend on marketing. They seem to think its their right to act like a fluffhead, or dictate how this game should be played.

When you bring new players in, especially in the beginning few new ones will come, and run before they get the opportunity to catch the games bug...

Mini Game profile

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Aug 1st 2017, 2:56:43

create a new players basic strategy forum,

all countries get an inboxed message on creation of 'how to play' with variations on messages depending on server etc.

Nothing even pushes players to the forums -> those that do dare come here probably read a few threads and see the negativity and tap out. I there was a forum specifically set out for newer players could help, a big bolded one like ARE YOU NEW? THIS FORUMS FOR YOU! Plus, that rhymes and everyone likes a good rhyme.

As a general rule though I think people need to be a touch more positive here.... I get it's alliance and yes there have been feuds for eons between tags but still one look at the alliance forum I wouldn't even bother playing. Toxic player bases aren't supportive to any game.

AtomicHellFire Game profile

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Aug 2nd 2017, 10:36:53

getting new players into the forums is a good idea, don't throw them into a alliance though I don't think that would quite work let people see the alliances by talking to people in the forums.

And all this talk of key words is all fine and dandy until people discover the game and go oh... that game looks ancient and unattractive no thanks! Gotta grab people's attention once they have came across the game with a better look.