[Bf-docboard] Redirecting old 2.3 docs: help needed!

[mindrones]

Hi,

the problem here is that there is no correlation between (for example)
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html
and
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/History
hence search engines put them in competition.

Versioning inside our specific wiki a different story, because I've
setup the wiki to do permanent redirects :)

I'll mail about this in the next mail to separate the issues.


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@Kesten, thanks for the offer :)
Having more insights about how they rank stuff would be good.
I would prefer not to wait for their reply to act though: I doubt they
would help a specific site, and also their not the only search engine
around :)

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On 11/03/2011 07:27 AM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:

> First of all, the question is, does the Blender wiki have to rely on SEO
> at all? The wiki pages are meant for people who already know of Blender.
> These people will be looking for specific terms such as "Blender wiki"
> or "Blender docs" or "blender help" or "blender manual"; and will surely
> not miss the wiki (once the description meta tags are configured).
>

Quite the opposite! The problem is exactly that if you know blender
sites already, you don't search for "blender wiki" in google, you just
use the wiki.


> On the other hand, people looking for other generic terms such as "3d
> modeler", or functions such as "compositor", "video editor" may have
> difficulty in finding the wiki. To draw such people to Blender wiki, we
> will need some more SEO tricks. But whatever we do should be limited to
> the pruned pages only.

I think one looks for specific terms, but the problem is that search
engines look at <h1>s and give less importance to the words inside the
pages.

That's why you can't find Extrude manual page easily: because that's not
in a title. If you look for "Pivot Points" you get Doc:Manual/3D
interaction/Manipulation/Pivot Points  at first place.


> Perhaps it is best to get rid of the 2.3,

no

> 2.4

no

> and 2.5 pages;

and no :)

Please see my next mail about the 2.4/2.5/2.6 thing.


> and focus
> on SEO on the 2.6 pages.
> If you are forming an SEO team,  I am interested in joining it (to find
> optimized keywords for each page).


If you want to make some research on which keywords you would suggest,
I'd be glad to see that, it was in the todo anyway, thanks :)



Regards,
Luca

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