The London OpenGuide doesn't show up when you google for 'London wiki'. It would be nice if it did. Suggestions?
Kake
I guess that we need to get some people to link to it from blogs and suchlike to try and get our "importance" up!
-----Original Message----- From: openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org [mailto:openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Kate L Pugh Sent: 09 October 2003 22:54 To: openguides-london@openguides.org Subject: [OpenGuides-London] Google
The London OpenGuide doesn't show up when you google for 'London wiki'. It would be nice if it did. Suggestions?
Kake
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:38:30AM +0100, George Brisco wrote:
The London OpenGuide doesn't show up when you google for 'London wiki'. It would be nice if it did. Suggestions?
I guess that we need to get some people to link to it from blogs and suchlike to try and get our "importance" up!
Basically, yes - we need a publicity drive, especially within the bloggers' circle, I think, because we all know what that can do.
For what it's worth, we *do* actually show up - look at the eighth hit, which is the Wikipedia entry for London, and read the excerpt under the link. :) I know, it's not quite what we were hoping for, though...
Kake wrote:
Suggestions?
It might also help if the word "wiki" appeared on the site. Curiously enough, someone appears to have altered the site footer template to now read "This wiki powered by OpenGuides (version 0.24)."....
On Fri 10 Oct 2003, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
It might also help if the word "wiki" appeared on the site. Curiously enough, someone appears to have altered the site footer template to now read "This wiki powered by OpenGuides (version 0.24)."....
Excellent! It would be even nicer if that said "version 0.25"...
Kake
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:22PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote:
Excellent! It would be even nicer if that said "version 0.25"...
*cough*
Yes, I hope to get that sorted out on Sunday.
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 10:25 am, Earle Martin wrote:
Basically, yes - we need a publicity drive, especially within the bloggers' circle, I think, because we all know what that can do.
Yes, for some reason, Google doesn't appear to have a pagerank for openguides.org/london. Now, Google doesn't use pagerank that much anymore, but it really does help. Also just make sure there aren't robots.txt blocking Google or anything similar.
Personally, I'd come up with a list of terms you want to drive, and then incorporate them into the homepage better. "wiki" is a very techy term.
A (kind of) US competitor: http://www.addyourown.com
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 11:33:20AM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
Yes, for some reason, Google doesn't appear to have a pagerank for openguides.org/london. Now, Google doesn't use pagerank that much anymore, but it really does help. Also just make sure there aren't robots.txt blocking Google or anything similar.
There aren't. I'm not sure why Google is reacting like this.
Personally, I'd come up with a list of terms you want to drive, and then incorporate them into the homepage better. "wiki" is a very techy term.
This is true. Suggestions anyone? Apart from "London", "guide" and "free"....
A (kind of) US competitor: http://www.addyourown.com
We've been discussing them on OpenGuides-Dev:
http://realprogrammers.com/mail/openguides-dev/2003-October/000058.html
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