Neopets fansites don’t care about the search engines.
Neopets fansites have been growing ever since Neopets first opened up to the world wide web back in 1996; however, with so many fansites being introduced to the web, why don’t more fansites rank in the top 20 for “Neopets?” If your neopets fansites gets ranked on page 1 for “Neopets” on google, your fansite will bring in at least 10,000 daily unique visitors. We know of a few neopets fansites that have optimized to rank for “neopets” by building links for “neopets cheats” and “neopets” and these sites are Neopetsfanatic.com and Thedailyneopets.com, however; both fansites can still be optimized better.
Let’s take Neopets fanatic as our first example.. She’s currently in the top 10 for “Neopets” because she hit all the other big-blogs on the web with her half-decent blog success story but if she’s so successful, why are most of her pages down? Let’s take the archive links as our prime example. It returns a mySQL error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_tag() in /www/data/neopetsfanatic/wp-content/plugins/seo-title-tag.php on line 68. If she wishes to maintain her rankings for neopets she better fix these bugs or she’ll drop for her rankings very soon.
Thedailyneopets is our next target now and they’re currently two rankings under Neopets fanatic for “Neopets” and we believe with our tips they can surpass her blog as being the biggest “neopets fansite” and we believe they should change the following things. Their homepage currently as its header tag as “Neopets :: Welcome to The Daily Neopets!”, who would do such a thing? We know we’re on the homepage now, so please change the header tag to “Neopets, neopets freebies, neopets cheats”. like we’ve suggested to you before! Without backlinks, you will not maintain your ranking on google and we’re sure you’ll be very pissed about that one.
Our tips for all neopets fansites owners are to make good use of the titles of your homepage and meta descriptions. If you’re a neopets fansite owner, then your site’s title should be something like “Neopets fansite name here - Neopets cheats, Neopets freebies”, not only having neopets in your site’s title helps you get ranked, but also your meta description. Something like “Neopets fansites provides neopets cheats, neopets freebies, neopets dailies, and neopets tips!” would really help you with getting ranked on the search engines. Remember, if you’re a neopets fansite, then getting on the first page for neopets is your friend…
Neolodge needs to step up!
Neolodge is currently one of the biggest neopets fansite on the web today, but how would we know to go to Neolodge for neopets dailies guides, neopets freebies and plot coverage when Neo lodge fails to optimize their website for the search engines but still maintains an active user-base.. Neolodge could be an even bigger neopets fansite if they optimized their website better.
So, what should Neolodge do to improve? Well, we have a few tips actually that can hopefully bring Neolodge’s traffic up.. Their current meta description reads “NeoLodge.com provides users with a site to get information about Neopets.com, including Neopets chea”. What kind of site-description is that? It looks like it was written by a little kid and a much-better description (so they can attract more neopets fans) would probably be “Neo lodge provides neopets users with a neopets fansite to get information about Neopets.com, including neopets freebies, neopets games, and neopets dailies”. Not only would these changes help them get ranked on google and various other search engines for “Neopets”, it’ll help them grow faster by maintaining a much-better meta description for their loyal visitors.
On-site optimization. Neolodge doesn’t have any header tags anywhere and on their index, they could use one such as;<h1>neopets cheats, neopets freebies</h1> and underneath the header tags they could write up a short description on what Neo lodge offers to neopets fans. Their homepage currently just includes the neopets news and a few graphics from their site. They need to optimize so that they can attract more Neopets fans. Why lose out on potential traffic and new visitors?
Losing traffic to competitors. Isn’t neolodge supposed to be one of the biggest neopets fansites on the web? It’s not; if it was it would be on page 1 on google for “neopets”, its losing out to The daily neopets and Neopets fanatic both are owned by not smart owners when it comes down to the search engines. Neo lodge has more content so they shouldn’t have a problem with getting ranked.
Our tip to Neo lodge: Implement these changes and watch your traffic go up! You guys may think that we care a lot about the search engines, but we don’t. Search engines are the key to a very successful fansite as well as a virtual pet site. Sure, you have your word-of-mouth traffic, but why don’t you try to get traffic from the search engines as well?
With everybody trying to follow suit in the recent success of Webkinz and its plushies; Neopets has recently decided to follow in their path as well.
Is Neopets the next area of virtual pets gaming going into a plush-toy gaming sites as well?
On 26 September 2007 Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP owns Neopets) press release they announced their partnership with JAKKS to create new plush toys and interact it within the Neopets community.
Neopets first started out as an online virtual community. As they began to add merchandise, they started to sell plushies to their users, and in turn, you received a secret code (tokens) as a thank you gift for buying the plushies - and you’d receive in-game points or in-game items.
The new plush toys that Neopets plans to release will most likely be released in Spring of 2008.
With the continue rash of new businesses following suit with Webkinz - will Neopets be the site that puts Webkinz out of the market? Can they even do such a thing? Neopets is powerful and most people believe that they can’t the industry once again… What will Webkinz do after Neopets released their new plush toys? Is this the end to Webkinz?
We hope Neopets new plush toys are even better than Webkinz’s and contain many neopets-style plushies.