On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:52:39PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I think cleaning up the metadata on our site and keeping content
fresh etc - these are good things. There's a good oppty here to clean
things up, make our message clearer, update things and maybe even
institute better processes / initiatives for keeping them fresh.
However, lacing our site with keywords and stuffing our page titles
with buzzwords to vy for the attention of a bot whose algorithm
changes daily is not ok. The core function of the website is to
communicate a readable message to humans, right? Let's not compromise
the consistent and coherent voice we've established....
The core function of a website doesn't matter if people looking for it
can't find it. As a case in point, people looking for "Fedora Media
Writer" get
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/04/26/fedora-media-writer-the-fas...
as the first hit. That's at least associated with our sponsor and not
entirely foreign, but I'd think we'd want
https://fedoramagazine.org/make-fedora-usb-stick/ or even
https://getfedora.org/workstation/download/ to outscore it.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader