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UFO Mahjong and the Long Tail of Layouts (Real Data)
Nine impressions for “ufo mahjong”. Thirteen for “mahjong gate”. If you run a big website, you ignore numbers like these. If you run our website, they’re the whole point. Search people call this the long tail: the thousands of specific, low-volume queries that individually look like rounding errors and collectively describe exactly who your players…
Turtle Leads: Our First Real Play Counts
We don’t have to guess which mahjong layout players prefer. We built a tiny counter, pointed it at our game pages, and waited. The first answer is in: it’s the Turtle. The numbers are small — fifteen game-page views in the counter’s first days — but they’re ours, earned page by page, and they already…
Mahjong Square: 39 Searches, Zero Clicks (Real Data)
Thirty-nine times in our first weeks, someone typed “mahjong square” into Google and our page appeared in the results. Zero times did they click it. That makes Mahjong Square our second most-searched layout — and our most instructive failure. Here’s what the layout is, why we think players skipped us, and what we did about…
Five Countries, Six Languages: Where Our First Players Are
Nine clicks. That’s our entire Google click count for the site’s first weeks — and it spans five countries. We could dress that up in percentages, but percentages of nine are silly. Counts are honest: the United States sent four clicks, Spain two, and Germany, Japan and Turkey one each. Mahjong solitaire is a genuinely…
What Rules Do Mahjong Players Actually Look Up? Our Real Query Data
If search data tells you one thing about mahjong players, it’s this: you love the game, and you want to be sure you’re playing it right. Rules questions are the most consistent theme in our first month of Google data — more reliable than any single layout, and spread across more variants than we expected.…
Autumn Mahjong in July? The Early Seasonal Signal in Our Data
It is late July. Depending on where you are, it is beach weather — and yet our search data says a slice of you is already thinking about falling leaves. This week “autumn mahjong” showed up in our Google Search Console impressions — in mid-summer. And it isn’t alone: our German Halloween page already earned…
The Most Searched Mahjong Layouts — Real Data From Our First Months
Every mahjong site claims to know which layouts players love. We’d rather show you numbers. FreeMahjongPlay launched this spring. In our first months, Google showed our pages in search results 874 times over 28 days, and we anonymously count every visit to a game page, so we can see what people actually play — not…
Mahjong Solitaire Layout Difficulty: Real Data from All 28 Layouts
Every game page on this site shows a difficulty rating and an average completion time. Those numbers are not guesses or copied from somewhere else: they come from playing each layout end to end before it goes live. This post publishes the full dataset for all 28 layouts, explains how we measure, and pulls out…
Mahjong Gifts: What to Buy for a Mahjong Lover
Mahjong gift ideas by player type and price tier, with notes on what to avoid when buying a set as a gift.
Best Travel Mahjong Sets: What to Look For
What makes a good travel mahjong set, how to think about tile size and total weight, and what to look for in the case.