TV Maze Search

dontchange wrote 8 years ago: 1

When I did a search on yahoo for Quantum Leap I had to go back to page 12 for the TV Maze result. I think I can remember at TV Rage JohnQ.Public commenting that websites are listed by how much they pay search engines, or something like that. So the higher result pays more than a lower one. First page websites such as Wikipedia and IMDb pay more so they appear higher on the list. Does anyone know if this is true?

So if users contribute money to TV Maze some of that can be used to pay search engines to get TV Maze higher on the list and get more visitors. Or something like that. Out of interest does anyone here know how high on Alexa TV Tome and TV Rage were? I think websites such as facebook, google and Wikipedia are in the top 10. But I'm wondering how high TV Tome and TV Rage were.

If TV Maze appears further back on searches around page 10 or 11 then that could be how it was for TV Tome and TV Rage at first.

Gadfly wrote 8 years ago: 1

There are a lot of factors that determine where a page shows up in a Google search. Money helps, yes, Number of hits and "SEO Optimization" also help. Plus there are businesses out there that can get you more hits.

JuanArango wrote 8 years ago: 1

I can assure you that tvmaze is doing good, we are growing month by month, search results vary for many, many different reasons, depending on the words you are searching for. For some shows we rank on page 1 and for some shows we rank on page 10. tvrage ranked pretty high at its prime on Alexa, but nowhere near the top ranks, that is impossible for a site like tvrage , tvtome or tvmaze.

Some examples:

Search for: iron fist episode guide --> tvmaze ranks on page 2

Search for: oasis episode guide --> tvmaze ranks on page 1

Search for: trial & error cast --> tvmaze ranks on page 3

Search for: shots fired cast --> tvmaze ranks on page 4

Search for: the originals episode guide --> tvmaze ranks on page 2

Jan wrote 8 years ago: 1

Juan, you sure like to throw around the word 'impossible'. You should know better. :)

JuanArango wrote 8 years ago: 1

Jan wrote:
Juan, you sure like to throw around the word 'impossible'. You should know better. :)

well, let's say....right now we cannot compare to youtube or imdb :)

Jan wrote 8 years ago: 1

JuanArango wrote:
well, let's say....right now we cannot compare to youtube or imdb :)

better

dontchange wrote 8 years ago: 1

I've tried a few more searches. Sliders TV Show came up with the TV maze result on page 5.

Anyone here use Crazyabouttv? I only found the site about 2 months ago but it's been around since August 2005. Looking at the forums the last post was May 2015.

gazza911 wrote 8 years ago: 1

dontchange wrote:
I've tried a few more searches. Sliders TV Show came up with the TV maze result on page 5.
Anyone here use Crazyabouttv? I only found the site about 2 months ago but it's been around since August 2005. Looking at the forums the last post was May 2015.

Unfortunately it's quite hard to actually guarantee that any given show will appear high up.

There's a multitude of factors to determine the ranking, such as:

Whether links to it are posted on other websites, meta tags (information about the page itself), relativity to search term, etc.

For TVMaze, I'd suggest using both meta og:title and meta title and making the value include the words "tv show", but the most results would probably come from sharing links to it elsewhere.