SEO Lessons From Watch-Movies-Links.net
Watch-movies-links.net is without doubt the leader in online movies. The Alexa ranking for the site is in the top 500 and according to Compete, the site is getting around one point 3 million visitors per day. Why is the site doing so well? Because of good search optimisation.
In my opinion Watch-Movies-links.net is a very well optimised site and whoever created it must be a great SEO. It is easy to see why the site dominates its niche so well, it is by no means a looker but it is incredibly easy to use.
The Rating System
One of the many things that sets it apart from the competition is the rating system in place. I am not too sure weather the site is using Drupal, Wordpress or something else, but it is fantastic. Users can view ratings for or rate any of the following:
- The movies
- The copies of the movies
It sounds simple, but no other online movie site that I have seen offers ratings for both of these things, I would imagine that they really do help the users a lot.
One Page For Each Movie
Another major thing that sets this site apart is the fact that there is only ever one page for a movie. Again this sounds simple, but if you look at all of the competition, many have multiple pages for each movie. Finding the right movie is often a nightmare. With Watch-Movies-links.net you have all of the copies for each movie on a single page.
Searching The Site
Searching for the movie you are looking for could not be simpler – if you know what you want type it into the search box and it will bring it up. If you do not know what you are looking for, you can browse movies by any of the following:
- Release date
- Movie type
- Official movie site
- IMDB listing
- Wikipedia I suppose
- Somewhere to buy it, Amazon or something
- Watch-movies-links.net page
Also, featured movies are shown throughout the site, and when you are browsing individual movie pages related movies are shown on the right hand side.
The User Comments
Finally the comments are managed incredibly well for a site of that size, there are no swear words, the users seem to be quite friendly and their comments are generally useful.
The site does do well on Google, if you search for watch before or after many of the movie titles you will see the site coming up. However a website of this quality deserves to be ranked far higher. If you search for a movie title on its own, the site will not usually make the top few pages. If I were Google, this is what I would have the top 5 looking like for movie titles. Like Michael Gray I believe that the official movie site should be ranked no.1.
Movie fans would probably never have to venture outside of the top 5 results. Instead you have review after review, with the odd place where you can buy it for more money than Amazon, or whatever whoever is at #4 is charging.
Never the less, the Watch-movies.net site is a brilliant piece of work and I would imagine that using the site is absolute bliss. I am sure that sooner or later the site will start getting the credit it deserves. I challenge anyone to find me a movie fan who wouldn’t want this site to come up in the top 5 – MPAA employees don’t count.
The Watch Movies site has now moved to a new address: http://www.watch-movies-tv.info
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves, a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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June 11th, 2008 44 Comments
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I agree, the site has amazing SEO and is a well laid out site, I work for a company providing search engine optimisation and internet marketing and its unbelievable how some sites just dont have a clue lol!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I have been watching movies on watch-movies.net for almost a year now. I did try a few others in the beginning but I am only using this one an another one for movies in Spanish. I agree with the rating systems being very useful, particularly the quality of the link. If it is low I do not even try to watch it.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:47 am
Basically, user-friendly is the key word. When customers like it, they will come back.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:03 am
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October 15th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I agree we can learn a lot from the Watch Movies site. Great Content, Great SEO and overall great user experience.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
What websites compete with watch-movies.net?
November 21st, 2008 at 11:52 am
I agree we can learn a lot from the Watch Movies site. Good Ideas. Thank you for information.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 am
way it don’t work any more???????????? i love this site
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
nemeza, I noticed it has been down for nearly a week now. Too bad. Probably got some huge legal threat or something stupid. I hope it comes back soon.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 pm
i hope it too, tenx anyway
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
am so happy but i want to watch movei
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Yes still down what’s going on anybody know?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 am
I dont think this site is coming back
February 5th, 2009 at 11:08 am
GOOD NEWS! watch-movies.net has not gone, it just has a new URL. It is http://www.watch-movies-links.net
February 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
tenx you very much
))))))))))))))
February 6th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Yeyyy. Thanks Mike
February 7th, 2009 at 4:02 am
what is wrong with watch-movies-links.net?????? it does NOTHING!!!! since the name changed, now it does NOTHING!!!! No movies will load, no not one.
February 7th, 2009 at 4:04 am
what is wrong with watch-movies-links.net??? I was having a great amount of success with it when it was just watch-movies.net but now…
im sad, please help! thanks
February 8th, 2009 at 2:47 am
To all Watch-Movies.net Members: Thank you for your patience as we transitioned to a new domain.
Our new address is WATCH-MOVIES-LINKS.NET.
Please help us inform others by posting our new address in appropriate chat rooms/forums/blogs and other sites and/or by telling your friends and other members. We are pleased to see so many old and new members here again and appreciate your participation to making this such a great community.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:15 am
well, it’s almost the end of FEB 2009 and the watchmovies-links-net still aint working and that makes me so well not happy… will it ever work again? thought something was wrong with my pc, but lo and behold, it’s not, cuz all yall saying almost the same thing!! feedback welcome!
March 11th, 2009 at 6:30 am
In one month the new site watch-movies-links-net is on top of google for the keyword “watch movies”.How they do it?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Ya right. I was very curious how could they rank on page 1 for so highly competitive keywords after switching domains. It was great man. I believe they hire a SEO expert to do it.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Considering these dudes are meant to be great a SEO, i have a question. Why have they just got a new domain, when the old one, i personally think is better. Why chuck away a perfectly good domain? It baffles me. Plus .net domains are no good. Get a .com and .co.uk people!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Interesting blog post. Good site. Presumably these guys do the seo for it?
May 27th, 2009 at 5:43 am
hay watch-movies.net is good with out a doubt there in the to 10 but i feel like the visual aspect of the site lacking alot there is another movie site that i like called http://1900movies.com there not that big but please tell all your friends and post in appropriate chat rooms/forums/blogs so we can build it because by far watch-movies.com is lacking and we need to let people know about other better movie site that might not have the money for great seo
May 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
@Richard, nice site, I’ll let you have your plug.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hi David,
We’re also a new site and doing our hands with SEO for our site http://www.thefilmwall.com but till now it has not shown much improvement.
We’re dedicated to build a community where people can share their links and enjoy. Hope you like it.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Don’t know about them. In terms of SEO I would say ovguide, movies planet and hulu are probably doing a better job.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:42 am
without any doubt watch-movies-links.net is the leader in online movies. Most imp. thing of their SEO optimization is that it comes online just this Feb and within few months it reaches sky high.
August 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Very good article indeed. I have also taken up with your suggestions as I run a similar site to watch-movies-links. My website is http://www.tv-links.eu .
I would deeply appreciate if you could give me some pointers as to what to modify or improve.
Thanks !
September 4th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I agree that watch-movies-links.net is very good from seo prospective point of view.It has good content as well good layout.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
User friendly and creating a great experience for the customer will always become repeat business and spread the word of mouth!
December 5th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Interesting, as always with SEO there are so many different ways of acheiving your objective I think its important to take a broad approach and tailor SEO to fulfill your companies individual needs. Not all SEO techniques work for everyone.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Nice sneaky way of gaining popularity. I think, like the US justice system, google algorithm punishes some great sites with lower pr and rank in the SERP’s.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
It’s all about SEO. Great.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:21 pm
They must have done a really good job with SEO-ing that site. I don’t know how they managed to get top rankings even with the new domain.
I am trying to SEO my site JustMoviez but competing with them will be really hard
February 9th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I’m trying to optimize my movie site MoviesPlayOnline for search engine but i’m not geting success. Anywone know what SEO company/metod they use to get ranked first on search engines??
March 10th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Link doesn’t work.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
@ Rumi, the link has been fixed.
March 21st, 2010 at 9:10 am
Yup, rating system and user comment is very good for searching.
July 14th, 2010 at 4:36 am
Unfortunately this site is no more, the government cracked down and they have become a forum.
there are still some good ones out there that arent filled with surveys. http://www.freemoviehq.ca
July 25th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Love movie links great websites keep up the good work
July 27th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Yes i know there is a government cracked down but they all seem to have other websites ready to take over if there website is taken which is great for us.
August 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I think its very easy to get traffic to a movie sites and once you rank you will get more links and more traffic etc