New Allegiance Website

Post by **aem** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:09 am

BackTrak wrote:QUOTE (BackTrak @ Oct 2 2012, 07:25 PM) Nice work AEM,

Only one major thing I didn't like were the animated throbbers, those really look dated.

Do you have google analytics on it, so we can watch the performance?

I guess since enough people do not like them, I will get rid of them and put something else in the sidebar.

Yes it uses Google Analytics. But do not expect much from this website for several months since Google penalizes new domains. I have noticed the domain name has already allowed it to get to #2 on bing for "free space combat game", so we may start to get a little traffic. But anything other than an exact match with the domain name will take quite awhile to rank for.

Terran · Post by **Terran** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:47 am

i agree the domain name isn't... the best

Post by **aem** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:44 am

Well what alternative is there at this point? Ideally we need to fix freeallegiance.org. Install a CMS, move Wiki content to CMS, delete Wiki, get rid of duplicate content at alleg.net, unblock /forums/ directory so bots will crawl it, install Google Analytics, and preferably add SSL. freeallegiance.org already has a lot of links to it and if things were fixed here we might have a chance to rebuild the community.

If I were to use a domain name without keywords, it is going to take too long (years probably) for it to rank well for anything. It is probably too late to build the community back up as it is. 1-2 years from now it may be impossible.. If we do not get more traffic to some website ASAP, this game is doomed.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:53 am

I have no opinion on this matter.

Rand0m_Numb3r · Post by **Rand0m_Numb3r** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:50 pm

I like the shorter domain name for various reasons, but mainly its shorter.

Its crisp, easy to remember and type.

StinkerTod · Post by **StinkerTod** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:02 am

Uhh I dont remember what was that free space combat game I used to play a decade ago?

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:00 pm

Raider Wars

Post by **Dome** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:13 am

Currently speaking to another new player who searched for space combat game on google and found freespacecombatgame.com

"I just finished freespace and now I want to try this game."

Thanks again AEM!

LA2_Cajun · Post by **LA2_Cajun** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:08 pm

To those hating on the domain name, its not impossible to register some other domain names and then redirect them to freespacecombatgame.com

I see the value in domains like "freeallegiance" and "alleg" but I also think "freespacecombatgame" has some value to it.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:59 pm

I have no opinion on this matter.