Call of Duty 4 Game Servers

[HypedGaming]

Just wondering here, how has Call of Duty 4 been treating your companies? Good sales, decent market, etc? Just curious how you find Call of Duty 4 really effecting sales?

[swish]

We host America's Army Honor and have a seen a sharp change in customers moving from AA to COD4. I personally think the game is great with the exception of a few of the annoying bugs.

[JasonF]

Taking a lot away from BF2 in my experience. Been good for sales and glad Activision is not being an "ass hat" like EA and using limited ranked partners.

[HypedGaming]

Yeah, we personally have experienced a high flow of steady and constant Call of Duty 4 orders. I think once they fix some of the bugs, and this goes into an active CEVO/CAL season we should all see a great number of sales from competitive gamers. Right now, I personally feel this is mostly from communities, and gaming organizations ordering at the moment. With the occasional pubbers

 

Can't wait!

[Todd Holley]

I have almost no sales in this game, which has surprised the hell out of me. We dominate the cod1 market.

[bfarrell]

Brian I don't think have http://cod4servers.com is hurting ya

 

We've seen a steady amount of sales, no real surge, but definitely no decline, in the COD4 market. Just wish they didn't take up so much gosh darn drive space

[Defcon|Rich]

Looks like someone else shares the same interest in picking up domain names

 

 

http://cod4dedicated.com

[HypedGaming]

Brian I don't think have http://cod4servers.com is hurting ya

 

We've seen a steady amount of sales, no real surge, but definitely no decline, in the COD4 market. Just wish they didn't take up so much gosh darn drive space

 

Nope, actually our supported communities cod4forums.com, and cod4boards.com help is a great deal in Call of Duty 4 sales as well. Not only does COD4 take up a lot of HD space but it eats ram like crazy.. Which isn't to bad of a resource; easy upgrade.

 

Ah nice rich, great minds think alike

[HGN-Daniel]

We bought cod4servers.com a few days after the game was announced.. but we didn't buy callofduty4servers.com for some reason...

 

We've managed to snag some other good domains though... unrealtournamentservers.com, unrealtournament3servers.com, cs-servers.net, ventrilo-servers.net, cspromodservers.com.

[HypedGaming]

Doesn't look like we will be needing cspromodservers.com though, haha..

[Defcon|Rich]

Aye, UT3 is another one I bought into..

 

http://unreal3servers.com

 

[HypedGaming]

Ah.. Well, looks like we have some people copying us eh? Stealthservers, and gameservers.com with their domain "cod6servers.com".

[HGN-Daniel]

StealthServers also got game-servers.com... we're keeping an eye out for them

[swish]

Make a mad dash for cod7servers.com!!!

[ECF]

Seems to be a strong game. Many people I have spoken to have moved over from BF2 to it.

[HGN-Daniel]

Make a mad dash for cod7servers.com!!!

 

We wouldn't waste our money on a domain for game being made by Treyarch

[JasonF]

Does the multiple domain names really work? The main thing that is going to pull people into your website are word of mouth and a search engine. If your domain name is nothing more than a redirect with no content, search engines are going to place you on the bottom. Then you are just hoping people type in a random URL to purchase a game server.

 

Hypedgaming's CoD4 site seemed like a good idea because they have text on the page and should place higher in search engines.

[HypedGaming]

Exactly, we try to build content on the domains we have, not do redirects.

[HIS-MOTHER]

Make a mad dash for cod7servers.com!!!

 

IW makes all Odd numbered cod versions for Console and evens for PC. They do cross platform them but that is how they are doing it. So stick to even numbers.

[Defcon|Rich]

Does the multiple domain names really work? The main thing that is going to pull people into your website are word of mouth and a search engine. If your domain name is nothing more than a redirect with no content, search engines are going to place you on the bottom. Then you are just hoping people type in a random URL to purchase a game server.

 

Hypedgaming's CoD4 site seemed like a good idea because they have text on the page and should place higher in search engines.

 

 

Agreed, The plan was to build content something like HG has done but at the end of the day there's always something more important that needs attention so the redirect stays for now until they can invent a 28 hour day

[JasonF]

so the redirect stays for now until they can invent a 28 hour day

 

Understood. That and UT3 is dead in the water.

[Defcon|Rich]

You got me there but we have close to a hundred other various domains that could probably use a home too

[qwidjib0]

Does the multiple domain names really work?

 

There's something that SEO gurus refer to as an all-in-domain bonus. If you have the .com of something with the exact term someone is searching for, and nothing else, the odds are massively stacked in your favor of ranking. It won't do everything for you, but it's one of the most significant things you could do to help seal a few terms. Hyped surely knows this.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=6PH&q=cod+4+servers&btnG=Search

 

But yes the best form of advertising is always word of mouth, this sort of thing is just a jump-start for it.

[JasonF]

The fact that they have text for that site is what places them high, in addition to having the exact URL. If you search Defcon's "unreal 3 servers", they are no where to be seen. You have to have text on the site to have decent placement in a search engine.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=unreal+3+servers&btnG=Search

[qwidjib0]

On-page SEO and a strong link portfolio are still major factors, no doubt. Rich could turn that into something very nice without too much work though.