+1 on Mikeal's view. This is very much my feeling too.
Also note that if we want to make sure we do get ranked at the top, OSAF
should qualify for a Google Grant (http://www.googlegrants.info/) and
get free $$ to set up an add using AdWords. Apparently, Mozilla is
taking advantage of this for FireFox (type FireFox in Google and see the
"sponsored link" at the top).
- Philippe
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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