Challenge Overview
Project Overview
This project, the CSFV Community Gaming website project will provide the web site infrastructure and integration of the games. This will be a web site that is available on the Internet, and also will be delivered in a form where the server and the games can be installed and used behind a firewall.
We have produced a solid SEO strategy implementation document in a past challenge that addressed www.verigames.com (mainsite). We also have SEO strategy document that describe the strategy to apply SEO to websites.
The goal of this challenge is to produce a similar SEO strategy implementation document for CSFV minisites (xylem, circuitbot, ghostmap, flowjma, and stormbound).
The outcome of this challenge will go directly to an assembly challenge to implement it.
Competition Task Overview
Here is what you need to address in this challenge :
- We will address 5 minisite websites in this challenge : xylem, circuitbot, ghostmap, flowjma, and stormbound
- You will use the provided SEO Strategy Implementation as basis for your work, take into account the following :
- You are allowed to refer to the content of the provided seo_strategy_implementation document but you are not allowed copy text from it into your document. All the text provided in your document should be written by you.
- We will build pages in minisites for the links that are currently redirecting user to mainsite.
- Xylem will have /play page in the next few weeks, the page will be similar to stormbound play page, it is a dedicated page for players to play a web version of the Xylem game.
- Most of the pages are identical between main site and minisites, so most of the efforts in this challenge is to provide the proper meta data and content that are specific to each minisite and the game concept of that minisite. We are also providing a SEO Kyewords document that we produced in a past challenge that should help you write specific game keywords.
- With regard to the 10 points addressed in the seo_strategy_implementation document, they were specifically addressing the mainsite, and you need to update it to be specific for each minisite.
- Provide text descriptions for each game. It will be used as capsule description to be placed in www.verigames.com front page. It is encouraged to play the game to understand the concept, also minisites has specific information about it's own game, this will help you write better content.
- To get list of all pages for the CSFV websites, you can use a free online sitemap generator i.e. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ , or you can refer to the routes configuration file in the website source code. But in general, the website is easy to navigate and all links can be reached from header bar, navigation bar, or footer.
- You don't need to submit sitemap (as mentioned in the SEO strategy document), because we are building a dynamic sitemap generator.
- The audience of the outcome documents are Assembly competitors. They will take it and implement mentioned in it.
Documentation Provided
Documentation and Applications that will be provided to registered members:
| Document Name | Document Description |
|---|---|
| SEO Strategy Implementation.zip | Winning submission from past SEO startegy implementation challenge |
| SEO Strategy.pdf | TopCoder SEO Traffic Driving Document |
| verigames_keywords.xls | CSFV Suggested Keywords Winning Submission |
Final Submission Guidelines
Final Submission Deliverables
- A single detailed document for implementing SEO strategy in CSFV websites that match in structure the provided seo_strategy_implementation.doc document.
- The document can be in word document or HTML.
- Each minisite should have it's own section in the document. Provide table of content section for ease of navigation.
Final Submission
For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.
Environment Setup
Source code setup
We have the CSFV source code in private github repository http://www.github.com/topcoderinc if you want access post a request in challenge forums.
Note that it might not be needed to look into source code, browsing the websites will give you enough information about the content, navigation, structure ..etc