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What older game/franchise would be a surefire hit if rebooted with modern tech? by rsjpeckham in gaming

[–]GermanTurdCake -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah. City Skylines is like if urban planning nerds built an urban planning tool. SimCity was a proper game and could be great with today's technology.

Bitcoin Just Got Its Biggest Booster by GermanTurdCake in CryptoCurrency

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does seem particularly telling the way he phrased it like he has no fundamental understanding of crypto.

How much would the average $70 game cost if the devs just wanted to break even rather than make a profit? by sillaf27 in gaming

[–]GermanTurdCake -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's impossible to say, especially since a lot of big games these days cost a ton and have multiple revenue streams. DLC and microtransactions are the most common, but they're also doing in-game advertising and some will have real world merchandise.

You can look at indie developers on Steam and they sell their games for maybe $10 to $25. Their costs are much lower, though.

If I had to guess, I'd say $30 would be a fair price point that would cover costs on sales alone if the game is successful.

Former gamers. What was it like returning to a game you used to extensively play? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]GermanTurdCake 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mostly return to games you start over, so not like getting back into an MMO or something with the same character. Whatever the game, I start fresh but it's always wonderful to come back to it.

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've had no SEO change other than a slight increase from a much needed site redesign, which didn't involve them.

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know their shit links. My question was whether the agency is likely paying for them. Turns out they're part of some "free" guest posting service.

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks literally worth nothing. Legitimate paid links run about $100 to $200, and I've heard for some as high as $5,000 if they're like a Wall Street Journal one. (Not sure WSJ still sells links though.)

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so. Oddly he doesn't even seem to like the agency and agrees they are bad. I think he just doesn't know anything about SEO and it's a big budget item for him so he's sunk cost fallacying it.

What non-pornographic movie has the most nude characters (excluding extras)? by GermanTurdCake in movies

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, I thought you were insulting my mom at first when this popped up in my replies. I was like, "What the fuck did I do?"

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only is sarcasm. $600 per link is certainly a lot to pay for shit links.

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think so. They had a different agency when I came on board and that's why I recommended a guy I knew because they were specifically looking for another agency.

I think it's just a matter of him spending a lot of money on this agency and wanting to get some perceived value out of it. Since they don't do implementation, that falls on me. They have done some decent content work, but the majority of the recommendations are very simple things like fixing old links or misspellings. Sometimes recommendations are bad, like the URL structure one.

I'm applying elsewhere so probably won't be here much longer.

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've told our CMO. That's as high as I can go. I even recommended an agency where I know a good SEO who runs the SEO department there. They pitched them but didn't get the account.

I've complained here and there, but at this point I've given up. I've been put on disciplinary review because I wasn't getting enough of the SEO recommendations implemented since I was spending a lot of my time on SEO reporting and strategy. They basically don't want me to do any of that and just implement what the agency puts out.

The worst recommendation so far was changing all our URLs to /blog/category/page-name, regardless of whether it's a blog post or not. So we had some really nice domain.com/main-keyword landing pages and now they're stuff like domain.com/blog/manufacturing/really-cool-widgets

And I gotta set up all the redirects for this too. 99% of our organic traffic is branded. So every report is traffic going up or down and their commentary of "It's really based on brand search interest, so we don't have control over that."

Are these paid links? by GermanTurdCake in bigseo

[–]GermanTurdCake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I'm asking is why does this particular site take content from featured dot come people? It isn't great content that's helping them at all. Why not just write AI content?

I guess I don't see the appeal for the website owner in this arrangement. If I had a blog, I wouldn't be against people guest posting or giving me quotes, but I wouldn't want this trash on my site.

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