The website of the Volvo Ocean Race Game leaves much to be desired.
A big part of the website is designed in Flash, therefore hardly any SEO possibilities and much of the rest of the site is put together with – I hardly dare to say it – tables. Oh my!
Over the weeks lots of “stuff” has been added to the site, without any communication towards the virtual sailors; we’ll just have to check back and find out for ourselves.
There is a forum with help desk and many members use it to ask information on a wide range of topics, however none of those are answered.
On the news section you can read emails of other members, hardly news if you ask me. And the event page shows the schedule of the upcoming legs, without the actual starting times. Why not call it schedule then?
Anyways, through my Woopra stats I discovered that typing a number of keywords in Google turns up the following result:
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That’s right, type the keywords ‘volvo ocean race game wind forecast change’ in Google.com and Piet Bos dot ME shows up first! [Nov. 8 update]Not anymore, it seems that someone has realized it and tweaked some here and there. Ah well, 2nd in the results now.
Well, that’s a feather in my arse! pulled it out again…
In my opinion the website of the Volvo Ocean Race Game should have been built on an entirely different platform, enabling much more interactivity with the now more than 50,000(!) virtual sailors.