Bleach Anime Public Launch

It's official, Bleach Anime is public. If you've just arrived, then first of all welcome. Much of this forum remains in its infancy and needs the help of the community to grow and prosper. It's been a while since Bleach got cancelled, so I'm sure there's plenty of rust to shake off for everyone. But, Bleach is back and what better way to celebrate than with a shiny, new website and community hub? Of course, there's still work to do like Roleplay and getting the word about this website out there.

Roleplay

The Bleach Anime Roleplay has always been a cornerstone of activity on the forums. Sometimes great, sometimes cause for much controversy; we all have created memories Roleplaying our characters. Our new Roleplay is built from the ground up and we hope that those interested will voice their opinions to us. For those wondering: the new RP will be in the spirit of the "BA Divisions" while working out some of the peculiar, baked-in kinks this RP had. It will be casual and accessible to anyone but where you can push your RP to the next level as well, should you choose to do so. Moreover, it will be more community driven than the BA Divisions could ever have hoped to be.

You can join in this discussion here.

Community Building & Your Immediate Help

The old Social Media groups have miraculously survived while still retaining quite a following. Despite this, many old members have lost sight of BA as a community. The old BA Facebook group is infested by spambots. Not everyone migrated to BAM/MAV back in the day and we shan't ever speak of the circumstances around MAV 2.0 and its owner. This is why I'm asking YOU, to share this website with as many old BA people as you know, perhaps lurking on your Facebook friends list or because you know them personally.

To (re-)build a healthy community in today's seemingly polarized world, we need to establish some ground rules. I believe there are places online for free speech, places that act as echo-chambers and places which focus on a particular common interest. BA falls in the last category: We're all here because Bleach and Bleach Roleplay interests us. That means politics of any kind are left at the doorstep. Anyone is welcome here who acts in good faith and wants to share their interest in Bleach. To aid in this, I am looking for SMODS to help maintain a healthy, community spirit. More on that, later down the line. 

In the meanwhile, you can read our (WIP) community rules here.

Exposure

Now is the time for our community to regroup and go once more into the fray! In hindsight, projects like BAM were dead on arrival because there was only a slowly decaying community which still had interest. But Bleach is going to return in October, which means a renewed interest among Anime watchers. This is the best chance and I'm pretty sure ONLY chance the BA community has to make a big return. For this, we need exposure to the wider world so new people can find us.

Things we have going for us and what I intend to do:

• Timing, a couple of months before the Bleach Anime release
• Top-level domain which equals the most sought keyword on google regarding bleach
• A professional content writer who can make the site rank higher
• An experienced, knowledgeable community

Timing

For a website to be found on google, timing is a major factor. If the next big thing isn't even on the horizon, no one will be looking for that thing yet. At the same time though, if you only start your website just before that big thing happens, others will have beaten you to it already. What I'm trying to say is, BA needs a couple of months of exposure to the internet before the Bleach Anime sparks interest in the subject again. So we do have timing on our hands! If we keep up the activity until 2023, chances are high that we'll be among the most authoritative websites regarding the Bleach Anime.

Top-Level Domain

Not only was it a matter of prestige to me to get our old BA domain back (well, almost) "Bleach Anime" is also literally the most searched term on google when it comes to Bleach. I've managed to secure bleachanime.net, one of two remaining top-level domains. The other one ends in .com and it would have set me back 69,000 (sixty nine THOUSAND) dollars. I don't know about you, but I don't have that kind of cash lying around. I think it's safe to say that this website is this community's very last opportunity to truly be BA. 

Content Writing

This is where I come in most prominently. All the rest will rely on your help to make this work. I'm a content writer by profession, I write blog articles which rank high on google and which are persuasive in nature because they offer value to the reader. What I can do for this community is write Bleach-related articles which will push this website higher up Google's search index. That means more people will find us organically when they're searching for a Bleach-related topic. Our previous attempts at reviving BA simply didn't do this, so potentially new members did not find us. They didn't even know we existed in first place.

Like with Timing, this too will need time to build up recognition from Google's robots. In the meanwhile, all activity on the forum will be a major boon where it comes to Google ranking.

An experienced and active community

All of what I said above stands and falls with having an active community. You are what's most important to this website.

kthxbai