Why haven't I found this website earlier?

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Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Aaendi - 01-05-2018

I found this website by a link at the bottom of smwcentral, and I can't believe I never heard of this website before. Why doesn't this show up on Google?

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Saltman - 01-06-2018

Because it's not very popular.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - DustinVG - 01-06-2018

If you look up â€œMario fan gamesâ€, we're literally the top result*. >_>

But good to have ya around! Nice to see affiliations workin' out.

*In the eastern United States of America. Google results may vary depending on country and language

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - VinnyVideo - 01-06-2018

@Aaendi Welcome to MFGG! I hope you enjoy your stay here. There's some tasty beverages in the fridge, so feel free to help yourself.

I'm glad to know that people look at affiliate links. We thought they might be useful, but we never knew for sure if people really used them.

Every day, dozens of people find MFGG through Google searches. However, lately I've been experimenting with some things that might improve our SEO, which will make MFGG easier to find in Web searches. And as Dustin mentioned, search rankings can differ by language and location.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Yoshin - 01-07-2018

Search rankings are also tailored to the user! And there's so many different search engines these days that its all a mess of complications to get your site to have better SEO

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Vitiman - 01-08-2018

MFGG has historically always been a bit of a niche site, but it has definitely gotten various brief activity spikes over the years. The most famous one was when we got (slightly incorrectly) mentioned on G4's "Attack of the Show" - keep in mind, this was back when cable TV was not only still a highly viable source of new media, but also when G4 still existed!

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Aaendi - 01-09-2018

Oh, now I remember. I used to download games here back in 2004 and 2005. I didn't know this place was still around.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Mariotroid - 01-11-2018

Welcome to MFGG. I should check out Super Mario World Central a bit more.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Aaendi - 01-19-2018

(01-11-2018, 12:44 AM)Mariotroid Wrote: Welcome to MFGG. I should check out Super Mario World Central a bit more.

Some of the technical information on that website is wrong though. They claim that clearing the sprite attributes table and rebuilding it every frame takes too much CPU speed, when it's actually much faster than trying to write around nonmoving sprites.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - DustinVG - 01-20-2018

(01-19-2018, 09:32 PM)Aaendi Wrote:
(01-11-2018, 12:44 AM)Mariotroid Wrote: Welcome to MFGG. I should check out Super Mario World Central a bit more.
Some of the technical information on that website is wrong though. They claim that clearing the sprite attributes table and rebuilding it every frame takes too much CPU speed, when it's actually much faster than reallocating sprites every time they move onscreen.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Aaendi - 01-20-2018

@dustinvgmaster

Yeah, I had a hard time describing it.

I tried to say that it's quicker to build the sprite attributes table from scratch each frame, instead of trying to selectively changing bits and pieces of the sprite attributes table each frame.

RE: Why haven't I found this website earlier? - Vitiman - 01-20-2018

Welcome to video games, my name is MFGG how can I help you?