From gbinns@fedoraproject.org Thu Nov 19 10:04:07 2015 From: Garland Binns To: websites@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: SOP for Keyword Optimization Project Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:57:24 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4592591556614915817==" --===============4592591556614915817== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Al! Thank you very much for the great feedback! I agree that we could certainly benefit from adding more instruction in terms of how to use the tags and will incorporate that into the Wiki. Regards, Garland -- Garland Binns: Fedora Project Contributor Email: gbinns(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG: 236ABB13 Phone: (646) 867-2335 | Fax: (877) 329-3410 Twitter: twitter.com/garlandbinns Wiki: fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:gbinns ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alistair Thomas > To: websites(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:53:47 +0000 (GMT) > Subject: Re: SOP for Keyword Optimization Project > > On Sun May 9 13:27:45 UTC 2010 Garland Binns wrote: > > As of Friday last week, the Standard Operating Procedure has been > prepared > > for the Keyword Optimization Project, FYI. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Keyword_optimization > > > Please let me know if you all have any questions! > > Hi Garland, > > Thanks for posting this to the open mailing list. > > A couple of suggestions. > > Firstly the importance of and content="short summary with key phrase"> tags. Search engines present the > title as the link on the search results to the found page. Often key terms > searched for will be highlighted in the title. Also the main search engines > (Google, Yahoo) will use the meta description for the short description > below the link. > > To help simplify SEO for authors I think you should emphasise title, h1 and > h2 tags, along with meta description as the primary places to enter key > phrases. Anything else is likely to be much less important in any page > rankings. > > So for example > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB might be > best served with: > Boot and Run Fedora from Live USB Media - Fedoraproject >

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> then optionally have > > > A clear example in your document may help authors understand more quickly > how to approach this. > > For a nice history on how all the other meta stuff is ignored see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element > > Secondly as a source of keywords using the wiki search may be more > productive of a broader range of keywords. > > The awstats page shows the word fedora as very much the most common > keyword, with supplemental words such as usb, schedule, screenshots, > release, selinux coming much further down. There seems to be no results for > more general terms such as 'linux distribution' or more specific queries > such as 'fedora video driver bug'. > > I had proposed adding the wiki search box to the Fedora front page: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-April/007831.html > Hopefully this would give a source of more detailed keywords that users and > contributors were looking to have answers to and allow for greater > optimisation of the websites. > > I personally like some of the arguments put forward by Jakob Nielsen for > having search on the front page: > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010513.html > > This was part of a wider proposal I had made for redesigning the > information architecture of the front page: > http://astavale.co.uk/fedora_homepage/notes.html > Which focused on three types of website user who would move from New to > Returner to Contributor as a way of organising the information. Please take > a look if you have the time. > > Hope some of this is useful to you, > > Al > Fedora User > --===============4592591556614915817== Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="attachment.html" MIME-Version: 1.0 SGkgQWwhPGJyPjxicj5UaGFuayB5b3UgdmVyeSBtdWNoIGZvciB0aGUgZ3JlYXQgZmVlZGJhY2sh IDxicj48YnI+SSBhZ3JlZSB0aGF0IHdlIGNvdWxkIGNlcnRhaW5seSBiZW5lZml0IGZyb20gYWRk aW5nIG1vcmUgaW5zdHJ1Y3Rpb24gaW4gdGVybXMgb2YgaG93IHRvIHVzZSB0aGUgdGFncyBhbmQg d2lsbCBpbmNvcnBvcmF0ZSB0aGF0IGludG8gdGhlIFdpa2kuPGJyPjxicj5SZWdhcmRzLDxicj4K CkdhcmxhbmQ8YnI+PGRpdiBzdHlsZT0ibWFyZ2luOiAyZW0gMHB0OyIgbmFtZT0ic2lnX2JlNjYx NTIxZTYiPi0tPGJyPgpHYXJsYW5kIEJpbm5zOiBGZWRvcmEgUHJvamVjdCBDb250cmlidXRvcjxi cj4KRW1haWw6IDxhIGhyZWY9Im1haWx0bzpnYmlubnNAZmVkb3JhcHJvamVjdC5vcmciPmdiaW5u c0BmZWRvcmFwcm9qZWN0Lm9yZzwvYT4gfCBHUEc6IDIzNkFCQjEzPGJyPgpQaG9uZTogKDY0Nikg ODY3LTIzMzUgfCBGYXg6ICg4NzcpIDMyOS0zNDEwPGJyPgpUd2l0dGVyOiA8YSBocmVmPSJodHRw 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