Why is the assumption that all of these people are looking for
chandlerproject? If they are, why aren't they clicking on one of the
three links? If they can't obviously see how to get to Chandler then
we can fix that without forwarding.
Do we have some data showing that these people aren't going to
osafoundation.org to check out OSAF?
Are we certain that this number won't decrease significantly once we
lose the current osafoundation.org page rank? Maybe the reason we
have so many more osafoundation.org hits is because the page rank is
high, forwarding it won't help us if that is the case.
It's much riskier in my opinion to do the forward. We can redesign
the page to make it more obvious how to get to Chandler and cut down
the risk significantly.
Also, do we have any idea why these bloggers are linking to
osafoundation.org instead of chandlerproject.org? Are we not pushing
this link in the product and in the marketing enough?
-Mikeal
On Oct 19, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
Google Analytics shows a significant number of people going to
osafoundation.org but not going on to chandlerproject.org. Are
you happy to just have all those people drop on the floor?
On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
It's already pretty easy and obvious how to get from
osafoundation.org to chandlerproject.org, so it's not the biggest
problem in the world that people are linking to it. We're already
on top of posting comments on these blogs anyway so we can link to
chandlerproject.org in the comments directly.
I think if we think we could make it easier to navigate from
osafoundation.org to chandlerproject.org we should, but we
shouldn't just forward osafoundation.org to chandlerproject.org --
I can see value in keeping them separate.
I think the mozilla.org site is a good one to go off of;
http://www.mozilla.org/
-Mikeal
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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