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Detailed, technical articles on the fundamentals of the plumbing of game development, with a focus on networking and physics. From The Network Protocol Company, who appear to be a consultancy for, you guessed it, game networking.
Provides a wealth of information, actually for free. They link off to a more advanced paid tool, but the amount of data you get for free here is pretty substantial, especially compared to the competition.
While the depth of the analysis might not compare to tools like Ahrefs, for those on a budget, this is a great way to look into your backlinks, or your competitor's. It includes, still for free, an analysis of the context of the links, including the countries and industries of the sites.
A blog about game design centred around the design of Magic the Gathering, by veteran designer Mark Rosewater. Although not strictly about video game design, the principles explored apply to all flavours of game design.
A blog from veteran game designer Tadhg Kelly, a regular co tribute to gamasutra and Techcrunch. Excellent insights into how to go about thinking about game design.
A popular blog from professional game designer Chris DeLeon. Cred: worked at EA, had impressive success with games for iOS.
Discussion of the theory of game design, and theoretical aspects of development as it relates to their game, Overgrowth.
Great reads on game design, particularly in the strategy space by professional game designer Keith Burgun. Founded his own studio, wrote books on game design.
Pagelocity is a Web Page Optimization and Performance tool for web developers, designers and web site owners. It provides an in-depth analysis about a web page covering the following: social metrics, on-page SEO, web page resources, HTML/CSS insights and competitive analysis.
WooRank is a tool that returns an extremely detailed analysis of your website from many varied angles that influence search engine rank
This ranges from social impact, valid markup, keyword analysis, usability analysis, security and mobile concerns
A very functional interface that clearly indicates any possible problems
The definitive beginner's guide to SEO from Moz, one of the most prolific organisations in the search engine optimisation world, and a trusted resource. Includes some excellent fundamental knowledge to help you frame your strategies in the world of search, then goes into tools, techniques, and monitoring.
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.
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.
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