Complete Game Lists in Arcade Footer

sly5 · 07-17-2008, 03:26 PM

Hi,

I've been wondering whether adding a complete list of games on the front page of your arcade like miniclip.com and bootyarcade.com has a positive SEO effect.IMO it looks pretty fugly but I'm guessing it's there to maximize traffic right? What's the deal?

Here's what I'm talking about:

And then I'm also curious about the extended footers you see with long paragraphs of text describing the arcade. Obviously that sort of text is targeting keywords. How effective is that as an SEO technique?

smithscomputers · 07-17-2008, 05:57 PM

Some things people do for the arcades in regards to SEO is dodgy and fine line on spamming.

I would not suggest having 200 links+ for all of the games you have on your website. Have a few sure and new links on the home page so they get found faster but then once they have been found they should keep on getting cached and updated and you will have links to these games from internal pages anyway.

As for having text plastered at the bottom of a website using Keywords and not making any logical sense is definitely spamming and websites can be banned in the search engines because of that.

hitsfree · 07-17-2008, 10:05 PM

Looks like these sites do well, so seems OK.

archgames · 07-18-2008, 11:05 AM

i could disagree with that smithscomputers,

if you look at miniclip the site doesnt show all the links until users click on A-Z games ...

which means the 200+ links will only appear if the user wants it to apear so it aint really spaming if you do it the miniclip way...

smithscomputers · 07-20-2008, 03:28 AM

Hi Archgames,

Sorry, I should have clarified myself a little better:

With the links to your own games on the website sure you could do that but in most cases it looks tacky and unappealing. When I was talking about spamming I was talking about other points.

If someone wast to have keywords at the bottom of their page saying:
Free Online Games, Play Free Online Games, Arcade Games For Free etc etc that is spamming.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though, mine is based on the websites I have worked on over the years.

Fahd · 08-08-2008, 01:22 PM

Google guidelines recommend limiting to a max of 100 links per page. And google definitely considers the footer text as keyword stuffing and is looked down upon.

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35769

Mr Jepps Se · 08-21-2008, 06:04 AM

I think a drop-down/jump-to menu listing all games in alphabetical order is quite a good idea. So could put: "Pick a game" and hey presto. I think Kongregate has something like that.

arcades247 · 08-22-2008, 08:23 AM

Those sites with huge paragraphs of pointless crappy text look spammy imo.

JayZ · 08-23-2008, 04:01 AM

it might be good for seo etc but to me it looks very spammy

07-17-2008, 03:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
sly5 Preferred Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: On a platform somewhere in a station near you. Posts: 189	Complete Game Lists in Arcade Footer Hi, I've been wondering whether adding a complete list of games on the front page of your arcade like miniclip.com and bootyarcade.com has a positive SEO effect.IMO it looks pretty fugly but I'm guessing it's there to maximize traffic right? What's the deal? Here's what I'm talking about: And then I'm also curious about the extended footers you see with long paragraphs of text describing the arcade. Obviously that sort of text is targeting keywords. How effective is that as an SEO technique?

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archgames Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 923	i could disagree with that smithscomputers, if you look at miniclip the site doesnt show all the links until users click on A-Z games ... which means the 200+ links will only appear if the user wants it to apear so it aint really spaming if you do it the miniclip way... __________________ Best Ad Networks : ValueClickMedia \| Adsense Arcades : Free Flash Games Best arcade Host : HostGator \| Hostmonster 4.95$ a mo great stuff! Webmaster? : Trade 1:1 Traffic Best Arcade Script : PHParcadeScript (includes 2.7k Games) /\/\ My Recommendations....

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Fahd Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,131	Google guidelines recommend limiting to a max of 100 links per page. And google definitely considers the footer text as keyword stuffing and is looked down upon. http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35769 __________________ Arcade Partner Program \| Arcade Affiliate Program \| Free Website Monitoring Free Games \| Exchange Links \| Download Games New Games \| Top Games \| Arcade Games \| Card Games \| Mahjong Games \| Puzzle Games \| Word Games

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Mr Jepps Se Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 13	I think a drop-down/jump-to menu listing all games in alphabetical order is quite a good idea. So could put: "Pick a game" and hey presto. I think Kongregate has something like that. __________________

07-17-2008, 05:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
smithscomputers Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 396	Some things people do for the arcades in regards to SEO is dodgy and fine line on spamming. I would not suggest having 200 links+ for all of the games you have on your website. Have a few sure and new links on the home page so they get found faster but then once they have been found they should keep on getting cached and updated and you will have links to these games from internal pages anyway. As for having text plastered at the bottom of a website using Keywords and not making any logical sense is definitely spamming and websites can be banned in the search engines because of that.

07-20-2008, 03:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
smithscomputers Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 396	Hi Archgames, Sorry, I should have clarified myself a little better: With the links to your own games on the website sure you could do that but in most cases it looks tacky and unappealing. When I was talking about spamming I was talking about other points. If someone wast to have keywords at the bottom of their page saying: Free Online Games, Play Free Online Games, Arcade Games For Free etc etc that is spamming. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though, mine is based on the websites I have worked on over the years.

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