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Not bad but as others have mentioned the data is way off in a lot of cases. I know thats not your fault but it's common across all of the google results for 'next season of x'.

The benefit you have, and I hope you stick to it, is theres no multiple paragraphs explaining the show before getting to the information that well, theres no idea when the next season is.

One suggestion, if there isn't a known set date (Example The Mandolorian, https://next-season-of.com/the-mandalorian/) don't show 'December 2021'. Also with that page, the top says 2022, but the next season shows 2021.

Quick edit: I wish you the best in the SEO game. You're going up against a lot of outlets with a lot of money thrown at ranking at the top. I'll be rooting for you, anything to chip away at the spam pages that are nothing but 'what we know...'

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Yeah, the SEO they’re up against is brutal.

I’ve given up searching Google for information on the next season of a show. All the results are gamed by articles with no actual info, but from the search result summary appears to be what you’re looking for.

For example, if you search for “<show name> Season <latest + 1>“.

It seems every result, was updated in just the last couple of days (even if I’m 6 months behind), they clearly use tricks to make Google think its content was recently changed.

The titles are things like “Show name season x release date, details”, but the content is invariably a brief recap of what happened the last season. Followed by “regarding season x, no one has any idea when it’s coming, or if it’s coming, but here is our completely unsubstantiated vague guess...”

I have found next-episode.net to be useful for this. I don't think you can get any insider news there but their status has been accurate to know when its been cancelled, or latest word of renewal.

Google uses time-on-page as an important signal. If you could just open the page and instantly see the info you're seeking, the page won't rank.

That's why all these garbage sites hide the information under a huge pile of useless text.

There's another benefit to hiding the answer paragraphs down - it will likely be enough to trigger more ad loads (and a new page load if infinite scroll).

Except the page contains no actual info relating to the next season (despite their title and summary indicating it would), after the fluff content they invariably say something to the effect of “we have no kind of information about the next season”.

The pages exist only to lure you to the site under false pretences. If I wanted an analysis on the last episode season, I would have searched for that, but their title and summary deliberately mislead me into thinking it contains content which it does not.

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