Graham Percival wrote: > And even if some of our users *are* the webmasters, it doesn't > make sense for them to add a big annoucement about lilypond at > thie moment, does it? > > Besides, asking our users to advertize our site will *also* be > easier when we have a new site. I mean, it gives a good excuse to > motivate people, right?
Oh, maybe I misread your earlier comment. I was thinking links, not announcements. > > I think we could boost our rank significantly by having the exact > > phrase "free music notation software" in our description field. > > The meta description field, or the "what is lilypond" box? If > you're talking about the "what is lilypond" box, then please > supply the exact new text you're proposing. I'm completely fed up > with crafting and re-crafting those two (or more) sentences. >From an SEO perspective, the meta description is worth a lot more than the "What is LilyPond" box: <meta name="description" content="LilyPond... free music notation software."> > > Maybe it lacks the poetic qualities of "...for everyone", but it's > > worth discussing if you're going for SEO. > > I'm not convinced it's worth going for SEO, but if you want to > re-open the motto debate, that's fine. Maybe you could split the difference and have the motto we like in the <h1> tag, and the search-phrase in the <title>. I'm not going to fight over this though; these are just some ideas. > I'm happy to accept a compliment, but I don't understand the > comment. If you're suggesting that the general public understands > "free", then I disagree. If you're suggesting that the > "free-aware" fraction of the population outnumbers the > "non-free-aware" fraction of the population, then I also disagree. I think you wrote something about the word "free" being a detractor for certain demographics. And I wasn't referring to "free-aware" either. All I was suggesting was that I think you'll attract more customers than you'll detract if you have "free" in your target phrase. Because we Americans are greedy. > In any case, I can't believe that "Why do developers work on free > software", in a special box of its own, would make the website > harder to navigate. No, it won't. I think Jan was just saying that there might be a better place for it. I actually like that section. Maybe it could go somewhere else, but I don't know. It's pretty small right now. It doesn't really bother me there. It is a little FAQy; if we had an on-site FAQ, that would be a better place. But whatever, there are probably more important things to work on anyway. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user