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Post subject: Describing Blood Bowl  PostPosted: Nov 21, 2005 - 10:29 AM



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What keywords would you use to describe Blood Bowl? What things that people who might be interested in Blood Bowl be looking for on the internet?

Example Keywords:

Football
Football boardgame
Football minitures
Electric Football

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politics, bitching, vault, Jervis Wink

What are you trying to do anyways?

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Blood-bowl.net phrase from Search engines that lead to searcher looking at the site during 2005 as of yesterday (pulled anything with 25 more more clicks during 2005):

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blood bowl 11584 25.4 %
blood bowl tactics 721 1.5 %
bloodbowl 606 1.3 %
blood bowl teams 467 1 %
lycanthrope 367 0.8 %
skull crushers 336 0.7 %
blood bowl rules 258 0.5 %
blood bowl strategy 225 0.4 %
munchester united 215 0.4 %
bloodbowl tactics 203 0.4 %
mbbl2 172 0.3 %
blood bowl miniatures 171 0.3 %
bloodbowl teams 161 0.3 %
undead strategies 151 0.3 %
slaanesh 147 0.3 %
dungeonbowl 135 0.2 %
munchester 117 0.2 %
blood bowl skills 107 0.2 %
blood bowl computer game 107 0.2 %
chaos tactics 106 0.2 %
blood bowl star players 101 0.2 %
citadel journal 100 0.2 %
fimir 96 0.2 %
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deadpool 88 0.1 %
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team icons 84 0.1 %
blood bowl magazine 83 0.1 %
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git er done 82 0.1 %
www.gamesworkshop.co.uk 81 0.1 %
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how to kick a football 65 0.1 %
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blood bowl lizardmen 63 0.1 %
blood bowl dwarf tactics 63 0.1 %
games workshop blood bowl 59 0.1 %
elf bowl 57 0.1 %
blood bowl compendium 56 0.1 %
blood bowl logos 56 0.1 %
midgard blood bowl 55 0.1 %
heresy miniatures 55 0.1 %
_searchbox 54 0.1 %
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bloodbowl rules 50 0.1 %
lizardmen 49 0.1 %
blood ball 49 0.1 %
iritrea 48 0.1 %
slann 47 0.1 %
blood bowl net 45 0 %
jervis johnson 44 0 %
chaos dwarves 44 0 %
night goblin 44 0 %
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blood icons 43 0 %
khemri 43 0 %
blood bowl roster 43 0 %
blood bowl team roster 42 0 %
blood bowl figures 42 0 %
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nurgle 41 0 %
thrud 40 0 %
bar 40 0 %
skaven 40 0 %
skaven blood bowl 40 0 %
chaos all stars 40 0 %
erik kantona 40 0 %
l337 krew 39 0 %
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aenarion 38 0 %
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living rulebook 4.0 37 0 %
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undead strategy 36 0 %
necromantics 35 0 %
blood bowl undead 35 0 %
blood bowl dark elf tactics 35 0 %
midgard bloodbowl 33 0 %
dark elf tactics 33 0 %
blood bowl star player 33 0 %
merc with a mouth 33 0 %
spellcasters 33 0 %
squig 32 0 %
blood bowl orc tactics 31 0 %
famouse dead football players 31 0 %
sisters of sigmar 31 0 %
blood bowl lizardmen tactics 30 0 %
blood bowl games workshop 30 0 %
forest goblins 30 0 %
vampire icons 30 0 %
fantasy dwarf 30 0 %
dark elf blood bowl 30 0 %
master maze 29 0 %
blood bowl vampire 29 0 %
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elfball 29 0 %
halfling 29 0 %
panzies 28 0 %
blood bowl computer 28 0 %
bloodbowl pitch 28 0 %
blood bowl chaos 28 0 %
vampire counts 28 0 %
blood bowl 2nd edition 28 0 %
blood bowl tactic 27 0 %
bloodbowl computer game 27 0 %
fatties 27 0 %
minotaur 26 0 %
citadel journal 44 26 0 %
blood bowl.net 26 0 %
zara the slayer 26 0 %
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blood bowl goblin 26 0 %
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chaos dwarf 25 0 %
blood bowl human tactics 25 0 %
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play creator 25 0 %
skaven blood bowl tactics 25 0 %
 
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Post subject:   PostPosted: Nov 21, 2005 - 11:29 AM
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There are some strange things on that list.
 
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      GalakStarscraper wrote:
Blood-bowl.net phrase from Search engines that lead to searcher looking at the site during 2005 as of yesterday (pulled anything with 25 more more clicks during 2005):


That's a great list, but looks like people who already know about Blood Bowl. how do you describe it to someone who's never played?? What are people that have never played most likely to be interested in?

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      neoliminal wrote:
how do you describe it to someone who's never played??


Ah that's easy because working on the new Blood Bowl rulebook on planes and airports has lead me to describing it many many times to folks that have no clue what it is.

My pat answer is:

It is a board game with metal figurine playing pieces simulating what Football games would look like in the United States if the races from the Lord of the Rings played the game.

Because of the movies ... this gets me 90% there with most folks.

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That's a great explanation for the average person. Mentioning LOTR makes it easier.

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      GalakStarscraper wrote:
      neoliminal wrote:
how do you describe it to someone who's never played??


Ah that's easy because working on the new Blood Bowl rulebook on planes and airports has lead me to describing it many many times to folks that have no clue what it is.

My pat answer is:

It is a board game with metal figurine playing pieces simulating what Football games would look like in the United States if the races from the Lord of the Rings played the game.

Because of the movies ... this gets me 90% there with most folks.

Galak


That's a sentence... not keywords. I need keywords. What I've gotten from that is:

Lord Rings football
board game football
game football simulation


Obvioulsy you can't use the term "fantasy football" because that brings up an entirely different thing. How do you explain "fantasy" without saying Fantasy!?!?

What would you type into google and be happy you found Blood Bowl because you had never heard of it? What if you were trying to find something for your kid for x-mas?

sports D&D
sports board games
sports minitures
electric football
football boardgame

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TBH John, keywords aren't where it's at for indexing these days. Poperly formatted HTML and content will help you much more. It's really best to have the wrinting inside your HTML be accessible to the search engine spiders, and also making sure you make proper use of tags like <h1>, <h2> etc. My Google ranking is nuts for the sites I've done this for.

So I guess my advice is: writing and content are the key.

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I'm talking google ads. Need keywords for that.

Let me be more specific... what keywords would accidentily find you looking at blood bowl if you didn't know it existed but you would be interested in the game. In otherwords, what web searches are best for advertising blood bowl to NEW/UNKNOWN players.

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Ah I see.

In that case, do you mean people who are completely new to gaming? Or people who might be familair with some aspect of miniatures gaming (ie. MageKnight type games).

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The latter and their parents. Gamers who like football? Interested in D&D and NFL?

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NFL football Fantasy Strategy D&D LOTR MageKnight HeroClix Magic Gathering Warhammer

Don't be shy about pulling in a good potential crossover audience... the people MOST likely to take up BB are, to my reckoning, people who already have an open mind to fantasy and games in general. When I try to sell friends on the game, it's usually "fantasy football strategy" as my summary -- but if somebody's going to be put off by elves, why waste your time? HeroClix, MageKnight, Magic fans (etc.) are a good bet, because these are already people into fantasy gaming with a strong strategy component.

"Warhammer Lite" is also a good pitch in a weird way -- a lot of people (myself included) have always been interested in the "Mega" GW games, but intimidated by them. BB is the perfect balance.
 
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How about...

woodenspoon, KarlLagerbottom, complete mockery, bad dice, high blood-pressure, stress-filled, action-packed, mouth watering, cripspity-crunchity, think and meaty lasagna.

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      neoliminal wrote:
The latter and their parents. Gamers who like football? Interested in D&D and NFL?


Well I would probably start off by listing those games specifically, as well as any terms associated with them.

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