[Bf-webcontent] Re-activating list

[Peter Carrero]

Hi Luca!

Got it. The search results can vary depending on what is keyed in. 

Since there's quite a bit of work to get the URLs from d.b.o to redirect to w.b.o, let me know if I can help out with part of that labor. 

Regards,

-Peter
--
"The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo."
Seth Godin

On May 16, 2011, at 12:49, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> thansk for the suggestions!
> 
> 
> On 16 May 2011 16:13, Peter Carrero <peter.carrero at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, Luca,
>> 
>> Do you mean to have an automated redirect with regex or a manual
>> 1-to-1 cross-reference between the 2 sites?
> 
> I've meant to say "manual 1-to-1 cross-reference between the 2 sites" :)
> 
> I know it's a lot of work but it's just a matter of patience.
> 
> The simple reason is: I'd really like to use the ranking gained by
> those pages in all these years, in the hope that searche engine will
> sum the rankings.
> 
> 
>> If we do google searches for blender and texture, materials, rigging,
>> etc, the wiki links seems to consistently show up higher than that the
>> d.b.o links (and sometimes the d.b.o links don't even show).
> 
> I get opposite results, but agree it can be random.
> 
> 
> Try a simple search for "blender extrude".
> I get:
> - www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html as 7th result of the first page
> - http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Modeling/Curves/Extrude
> Along Path as last result of the 2nd page
> - http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.4/Py/Scripts/Add/Horn-Extrude
> 5th on the 3rd page
> 
> We used this example at the blender conf doc round table and people
> couldn't believe their eyes :)
> 
> Of course the paragraph title "Extrusion" at
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics#Extrusion
> doesn't help, but still the word "extrude" is there in the page, but
> for some reason the page is very badly ranked.
> 
> If some way we can associate the well known (by google)
> www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x2740.html to
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics
> possibly this will increase that wiki page ranking.
> 
> But, I'm no SEO expert so any advice is more than welcome :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Luca
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