The question is how many people coming to www.osafoundation.org are
able to find direct themselves successfully to chandlerproject.org
based on the information there.
I would say lets not lose our first page ranking of the
www.osafoundation.org and instead call out the link to
chandlerproject.org very explicitly on that page.
I heard from a few people say that that blue tab on the right saying
"Looking for Chandler" wasn't very obvious to many people.
Other ideas are,
1. maybe the top image file "Chandler Project" should be a link to
chandlerproject.org.
2. calling out in explicit bold text "Visit <Chandler Project> for
more information"
etc
On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:
We've had about two blog post point to www.osafoundation.org
instead of our desired chandlerproject.org.
It was suggested we look at ways to minimize this.
The most straightforward solution proposed was to have
www.osafoundation.org redirect to chandlerproject.org. I said I
wanted to think about how that affected our Google Page Rank first.
If you google for "Chandler", you get www.osafoundation.org at the
top. You used to get chandler arizona, so we've gone up in the
last year. This is due to the network of links built up over time
which give www.osafoundation.org a high ranking.
chandlerproject.org is sixth on the list currently since
effectively, it only has gotten linked at all in the last five weeks.
So what will redirecting www.osafoundation.org do to page rank? As
I understand it, you will take on the page ranking of the site you
redirect to. That is, www.osafoundation.org would get the lower
ranking of chandlerproject.org's current page rank, *not* the other
way around where www.osafoundation.org would raise the rank of the
currently sixth chandlerproject.org.
www.osafoundation.org has a page rank of 7, chandlerproject.org has
a page rank of 0. ( http://www.pagerankr.com/ )
I'm pretty conflicted now over what I think we should do with this
information. Outright redirection of www.osafoundation.org is
still on the table. But I don't really want to lose our first-
place ranking now. We might say that if chandlerproject.org is
ever going to be first place for "chandler" over chandler, az, it's
going to have to build the link structure itself over time and
we'll get back to number 1 eventually, so let's start now.
I can't find matching chandlerproject.org stats, but for some non-
Google link tracking on www.osafoundation.org, see:
http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.osafoundation.org%2F
Ted has said he doesn't think we should sit on this issue and
should do something to avoid bloggers pointing to
www.osafoundation.org.
I throw the conversation open to the floor, in the context of the
alleged pagerank behavior I describe above. What should we do
about blogs linking to www.osafoundation.org directly?
-- Jared
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