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Goodbye keyword meta tags!
We just took the plunge and removed meta keyword tags from all of our pages. Oh lord. Share on Facebook
We’re re-listed in game server results. Thank you Google… thank you!
Google, we can’t thank you enough. We’ve been selling our sweet game server hosting thats better than the second coming like good boys and you’ve seen us fit to start re-listing us in results. We’ve got some really good results, but… uh… not our favorite ones. Check this out, we’re on first page for ‘low [...]
Google, we’re still dead to you. (fear the wrath of Google)
One day, about half way through last month, there was a little tag missing from our sitemap.xml file. Google crawled it and then this happened to our search impressions: So, be warned… if you ever get your site map wrong and Google crawls it, it will nuke you from the face of the internet. How [...]
Google’s Custom fonts added to the homepage
One of the announcements at Google IO was for the new custom fonts google is hosting and giving away for free. We thought this was pretty cool so we dropped these fonts on the hosted game servers homepage. Subsequently, this broke firefox versions less than 3.5 as it requires CSS 3.0 and HTML 5 to work. [...]
We’re Google sandboxed. Drat.
Basically, we’re totally blocked for searches for ‘game servers‘ but we rank #7 in a search for ‘game severs‘… Yeah, I know… awesome. The reason is because I had an old Modern Warfare 2 link in my sitemap. Google crawled on it then promptly de-listed me in paranoid fashion. In time, and with more backlinks, [...]