How JoinGG.cc works

What this site is

JoinGG.cc publishes gaming news, reviews, features and analysis. It runs on its own domain, its own database and its own process, beside the game-server directory at joingg.co but separate from it. That site is about running and finding servers. This one is about the games.

The split is not cosmetic. Two sites covering the same subject under the same owner compete for the same queries, and answer engines generally pick one URL per question, so when two of your own pages qualify, often neither is chosen. Keeping the remits apart is the only version of this that helps both.

How a piece is built

Every article here opens with its answer. Two to four sentences, directly under the headline, before any preamble. That block has to make sense lifted out of the page entirely, because that is exactly what a search result or a generated answer does to it.

Underneath, the structure is ordinary: headings that say what the section covers, and sources listed at the foot with links. Sources are a field in the database rather than a habit, so an article can be checked for having them.

What it will not do

It will not republish anything from joingg.co. It will not review a game nobody here has finished. It will not move a publication date to make an old piece look new. The date you see is when the piece ran, and an update says so with its own date.

The technical side

Pages are rendered on the server and held in cache for five minutes. Nothing that needs to be accurate to the second is rendered into that HTML. Images carry their dimensions so the page does not jump while they load, and the article body ships as HTML rather than as something assembled in the browser: partly for readers on poor connections, partly because at least some of the crawlers that now quote the web do not appear to run JavaScript at all.