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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 varied blog about game design, development, and production from an experienced industry game dev turned indie, with a number of iOS titles under his belt. Also includes discussion of the business side.
This is a tool for local SEO, with Google My Business auditing, review monitoring on recommendation sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor, and citation building and tracking. They also handling submitting your site to business directories and mapping services.
A guide to link building, perhaps the most important SEO activity one can perform (apart from having quality content.) From Moz, a prolific organisation with significant SEO experience. Details the fundamentals, goes into the strategies and tools, and lists out some methods of tracking performance.
"Analysis of the state of game design from high upon my Ivory Tower"
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.
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.
Detailed tutorials, analysis and giveaways are available at this handy, frequently updated blog for game developers
This tool provides a detailed information on keywords, and shockingly, provides a decent amount of information for free.
It includes search volumes on [Google](/t/google) as well as Bing/Yahoo, cost-per-click and monthly value information for advertising. It also includes the same data for UK search.
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.
Dareboost provides an easy website optimization report, detailing errors and performance metrics. It includes the ability to monitor your site, so you can look back at historical performance, and receive regular reports to your inbox.
Particularly of interest, it allows you to compare your website's performance with a competitor's.
A lovely blog for gamers and game makers with lots of technical and creative tutorials, and post mortems from game developer Dan Kenny
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