Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-31 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > One quick win. When you search for OpenStreetMap on your favourite > search engine, it returns something like this: > > OpenStreetMap > Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 > license by the OpenStreetMap project and its contributors. ... >

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: > CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation > and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up > search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search > for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-28 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Saturday 25 October 2008, 06:37:03, SteveC did write: > > If positive I'd suggest that we build a list of terms we want to push > the ranking up for, throw these at someone with SEO knowledge, review > the changes they suggest and then see who would like to implement > them. Have consid

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
Andy Allan wrote: > Better than that: > > http://johnmckerrell.com/map/#t=mobile&lat=51.47935&lon=-0.20205&zf=15 > > Notice how the title and some of the page content reacts to the > location of the map? If we could do some similar trickery so that the > name of the place shows up in e.g. the ti

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-27 Thread Andy Allan
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Xav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ > ...for a lot of medium and big cities. > > The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on > their pages. With the curre

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-26 Thread Gregory
Since Firefox 3 (search as you type now in the address bar, it finds urls or page titles you've previously been to, even if you type something mid-url), I've been apending &map=Durham to the permalink url. I haven't been using that for a link, but it means next time I want to view the same area I j

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/10/2008 17:38, Xav wrote: >> What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ >> ...for a lot of medium and big cities. >> >> The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/10/2008 17:38, Xav wrote: > What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ > ...for a lot of medium and big cities. > > The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on > their pages. With the current URLs to OSM (with lat and l

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Xav
What would be fantastic is urls of this kind : http://www.openstreetmap.org/london/ ...for a lot of medium and big cities. The reason is to encourage people to use these URLs for their own use on their pages. With the current URLs to OSM (with lat and lon), the robots can't know that a URL link

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Saturday 25 October 2008, 23:35:47, David Earl did write: > On 25/10/2008 12:10, OJ W wrote: > > Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to > > see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which > > generated those sort of pages > > I haven't got to i

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Saturday 25 October 2008, 06:37:03, SteveC did write: > CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation > and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up > search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search > for 'free maps' a

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/10/2008 12:10, OJ W wrote: > Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to > see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which > generated those sort of pages I haven't got to it yet, but some of you may remember I've intended for a while to create

Re: [OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-25 Thread OJ W
Static webpages for each town -- search engines are always happy to see those. There used to be a website http://almien.co.uk/City/ which generated those sort of pages On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Eng

[OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-24 Thread SteveC
All CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top. What do y