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A Month of Growth of Kekbur

It's been just over a month since launching KekBur.net, and I wanted to share some updates. From strategy guides and community highlights for Nightingale to reports from Devcom and Gamescom 2024, it’s been an exciting journey so far.

Took a while to purge the default scripts and code from pages, but now it seems solid.

The site has crossed a little over 2,000 unique users and 4,000 pageviews. Search Console shows a 4.5% CTR, 159 clicks, and 3,500 impressions. These stats may not blow anyone away, but they tell me everything is working!

But the biggest announcement is a new logo, gifted by my wife, which is now live on the site. Looking forward to improving performance, adding social media accounts, and much more!

Created at 4:37pm, 14th October, 2024. Page last updated at 11:22pm, 5th November, 2024.

Prankster101 10/15/2024, 9:14:44 AM

Congrats on the stats...

I'm (skim) reading your Smite2 interview... And I'm really impressed by your ability in keeping your questions focused and to the point.

I've said it before (especially in the context of one of your previous posts)... I tend to converse a tad too much during my own line of questioning.

What are your long-term goals for your website? Do you intend to make it a commercial operation - in the same vein as heavy-hitters like Eurogamer etc, or even as a one man blog that gets serious amounts of hits?

Sturmer 10/15/2024, 3:52:58 PM

Prankster101

Thanks!

This is probably because each interview is well-prepared before the actual meeting. By the time I arrive, I already know who I’m going to meet and what I’m going to ask. But It’s not about reading questions off a sheet—I weave the questions into a natural, live discussion. It may seem completely spontaneous, but I have a plan in my head, and I guide the conversation (my wife jokingly calls it manipulation).

There are many techniques for steering the conversation or politely interrupting when someone goes too deep into details or, on the other hand, shares information I already know from public sources or press releases.

About the blog... At this point, I have no specific plans for expanding this—it's just an occasional hobby for now, and we'll see how it evolves.

Prankster101 10/15/2024, 5:25:59 PM

Sturmer

I see that you're uploading your interviews from Gamescom... How many interviews did you do over there?

Also, do you think you'll ever consider launching your own podcast show (audio / video) in future? Maybe have it in a way where you do long-form interviews!

Sturmer 10/15/2024, 6:13:58 PM

Prankster101

23 on site, and about 7 more 'semi-official'

Podcasting isn’t really my medium. Plus, I have a day job, which makes it tricky to share my face or voice. My current role requires a more formal approach—I should be wearing a suit, not running around with a camera at game shows!

Konquest 10/16/2024, 3:56:44 AM

Looking great man! I can see the passion in your work, it really shows. Personally I'm not really a reading person but I did skim through some of the content, It's engaging even for a non avid reader. Keep the fire going, you can do it!

MURRRAAAAY 10/16/2024, 11:03:32 AM

Congrats! Keep up the good work

Dave 10/16/2024, 10:33:24 PM

Congrats, looks like really good figures on the Google search console for such a young site.

Dave 11/5/2024, 9:27:45 PM

Do you have any seo tips you are willing to share? Tools & services, link building etc in a general sense?

Sturmer 11/5/2024, 9:39:23 PM

Dave

yea, do not try to cheat the system ;) apparently, the algorithms now are so advanced, that most tools and old tricks now do more harm than good.

Link building is the hardest, not sure how to tackle this issue yet

Dave 11/5/2024, 11:14:10 PM

Sturmer

I used to have my own games blog back around 2008, but gave it up. Really regret letting the domain expire (but not the giving up working on it) as I didn’t realise how valuable all its links were at the time.

I had links from practically every games site going. I doubt this works as well today though in the era of fake news and mistrust. Back then if I knew I had a story no one else had, sitting there being ignored, I would use the tip/scoop form on a let’s say “AA” trusted quality games site. Sometimes they would run the story and credit my site. Once one trusted site ran it, then everyone copied and used the same original Source credit link.

The problem of course was getting a reporter to trust you to the extent that they would be prepared to risk their rep by quoting your story as their source.

Sturmer 11/5/2024, 11:22:42 PM

Dave

now everyone just nofollow you and asks $$$ for a link.