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Articles about game sound from British sound designer, composer and writer, Kenneth Young
Game notes, reviews, and design articles from an HTML5 game developer
An all-in-one SEO tool which gives you all the important functionality, with best-in-class data and analysis on a wealth of aspects of your site: organic keyword and pay-per-click advertising research, backlink analysis, and technical optimizations.
SEMrush really shines when you enter a competitor's domain - you'll be presented with their best keywords, and performance reports. It also allows you to analyse your competitors' ad keywords and budgets.
On top of this it provides an advanced site audit tool, a social media tracker and poster, including post scheduling and analysis, brand mention monitoring and more.
One of the top backlink research tools; fast and effective, now owned by Moz.
Like most, this site relies on the freemium model. You get a small amount of queries for free, however.
Includes measures of page and domain authority, and the paid version includes data on social metrics like Facebook likes
Game design and development blog of Ian Garstang. Tips, advice, interviews and a diary of his latest games
Ahrefs is widely renowned, and near-unparalleled. However this quality comes at a steep price. At the core, they allow you to analyze your competitor's site, learn what factors are effecting their ability to rank on Google, and therefore what you can do to compete.
This is primarily done with backlink analysis, but Ahrefs includes an overall competitor analysis, along with keyword, and content analysis. You can analyse your competitor's top pages, and even compare their top keywords with the keywords on your own site, to identify gaps in your content.
Ahrefs also includes an advanced keyword research tool, identifying search volumes and cost-per-click.
Informed criticism and discussion of video games
Game design and art posts
Majestic Site Explorer gives a generous amount of information for free, such as an overall trust index, and some backlink analysis including link types, depth, follow type, languages, and anchor text. Particularly usefully, It also charts your domain's backlink history for free so you can monitor how your efforts are proceeding.
If you verify your ownership of a domain, you gain access to extended information for free. Upgrading gives you deep analysis on referring domains, anchor text, and backlinks.
An advanced, paid tool which includes detailed analysis of your site's backlinks and their quality. Also includes competitor research and site auditing.
Focuses on avoiding Google penalties, with an innovative tool which simulates the risk of a potential new link.
Another innovative tool presents information on how quickly your site is building links so you can compare with your competitors and make sure you're winning the race.
Google's Keyword Planner would have the most accurate data, one would assume. All the same, they don't make the full detail available to everyone - the amount of searches isn't shown as an exact number, but as a broad range, which makes it far less useful.
The tool still provides you with excellent keyword suggestions, allows you to monitor keyword trends, and see how the volumes change over time.
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