[Marketing] Re: [Magazine] Ideas for new short articles

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:42:05AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > I discussed keyword focused articles recently with Rikki Endsley, an > editor for opensource.com. She told me one way to boost visibility, > searchability, and site visits is to target articles directly at the > things people are searching for e.g. on Google. > > The http://keywordtool.io site discovers popular searches based on > keywords. I entered "Fedora how to" and here is the list it retrieved > for me: > > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/392172/84893614 > > While some of the searches are not necessarily good ones for a short, > targeted article, many are. I would propose that we use this list to > seed article pitches and assign them to new writers, rather than doing > just arbitrary technical articles which may not perform as well over > the long term. > > By the way, Rikki mentioned that titling the article just like a > search can help boost its visibility as well, e.g. "How to start sshd > on Fedora." Sorry to reply to myself, but since no one else commented... :-) Something I was considering today was whether these topics all make sense to include in the RSS feed. Let's say I write a "shorty" article from this list, like how to enable the SSH server. Do we want that to automatically end up in the feed at the top? Does it matter? I have a feeling that it probably doesn't, but if an editor or other knowledgeable person had some information to help guide, it would be helpful.