So, searching for games using Google is much faster than using the built-in search bar in Roblox. There are keyboard shortcuts, meaning I can easily control + t to pull up a new tab. I can immediately start typing, and since most games I play are both mildly popular and have pretty unique names (along with adding the word “Roblox” to the end) I can save myself lots of time.
Contrast this with the built-in Roblox search bar: I need to click in a very small area, the frustratingly have to deal with a dropdown before clicking again once I see the game I have found. If you do misclick when searching then you have to repeat the process again except the dropdown frustratingly again shifts order so that I have to look once more to ensure I’ve clicked “Games.”
Can you see now why I really prefer searching for a game on Google? It’s essential and I’d really like it back, along with the point made above on Youtube discoverability and how it hurts developers.
That is a BAD thing to do. Google isn’t the best at games like Roblox. It uses bad algorithms with Roblox due to the crap ton of tags people put in their games. It is better to search it. And if you are playing a game that is not popular and you are a youtuber, I HIGHLY recommend you put in the link or else people wont be able to find the game.
An easy fix would be to start going to other platforms. Discord is a great platform because of the more mature audience and how a lot of Roblox-based servers allow for advertising for groups and games. Just because you don’t get as many players doesn’t mean that it is the end of the world. Also, this started WAY back when people started going back to school, so YES, you won’t get as many people in your game.
For some reason, roblox decided to integrate a filter into the search engine!?!
This makes certain games or groups impossible to find unless you know the owner or someone in the group/game. Before google searches were blocked, you used to be able to find something you were looking for if it was censored in the roblox search engine, now you are helpless.
Over half a year has passed and my games still have virtually zero presence on search engines. These are the top search results for one of my games (which has accumulated over a billion sessions).
Frankly I’m surprised people are even finding it. A large portion of traffic comes from YouTube and socials - both of which, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t have a Roblox search bar haha. Just makes me wonder how many potential players I’m losing.
Inspecting roblox.com/robots.txt (the file every site has that is used by search engines to block certain links from appearing) reveals that they actually seem to have re-listed it (/games, /catalog, /library no longer appears), but search engines haven’t quite caught up yet. I don’t know how recently they did this but hopefully it shouldn’t take more than a month for Google and others to get up to date.
But for people who don’t play Roblox, it is good for attracting new players and discovery. It is very important. It turns people who do not know what Roblox is, to long term players, who play multiple games and engage in the community
I find this decision (as Roblox Staff confirmed it was just temporary, but they never re-enabled it back) very frustrating. I see most of the people just simply filling in the game name in Google because of its efficiency.
Steps if game discovery in search engines is enabled:
Finally! I can look for classic Obbies and other games we want to play without having to sift through the endless sea of duplicate, ripoff, irrelevant, etc. results! Also, Google has better search tools that Roblox really needs to beat such as searching between dates! And links turn purple on Google once they’re visited, allowing us to keep track of where we’ve visited!
how has this not been solved, its so irritating. i just want to find new games to play. game discovery on roblox is terrible, as well as their awful search bar. for example if you put any string of words and then put tycoon in it, it will show you random tycoons that have nothing to do with your full search. you cant qoute search, you cant exclude search, you cant search by date, its completely impractical.
